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Alex Meyer

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 9"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #51

Born: January 3, 1990 in Greensburg, IN, United States
MLB debut: June 26, 2015

dbWAR: .9
IP: 67.1
ERA: 3.74
FIP: 4.14
K/9: 10.0
FIP−: 95

Alex Meyer was a starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2017 he struck out 75 batters over 67.1 innings across 13 appearances, 13 of them starts, going 4-5. His ERA of 3.74 was 14.1% lower than the league average of 4.36 — 6th of 20 on his team, and 175th of 527 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.14 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 27.9% of swings (11.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 14.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 25.7%. His 0.9 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2017.

FIP4.14

K/910.0

WHIP1.34

WAR.9

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	LAA	13	13	67.1	4	5	48	28	75	42	3.74	4.14	1.34	10.0	5.6	86	95	0.9
2016	LAA/MIN	7	6	25.1	1	3	25	16	29	17	5.68	4.41	1.66	10.3	6.0	136	105	0.2
2015	MIN	2	0	2.2	0	0	4	5	3	3	16.88	14.01	2.63	10.1	10.1	426	354	-0.3

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2017	LAA	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.000	1.000	0.0%	50.0%	.437	+0.2	180	0.0	—

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2017. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	149	123	28	4	23	38	.228	.356	.382	.332	25.5%
vs RHB	143	121	20	2	19	37	.165	.289	.264	.261	25.9%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2017.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .254.

Pitch sequencing

What Alex Meyer throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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CurveballSinkerFour-seamSliderChangeupUnknown

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Curveball	36.4%	426	85.1	2,477	49.5%	44.8%	93	.140	.461
Sinker	30.5%	356	95.3	2,327	38.2%	13.2%	84	.214	.626
Four-Seam Fastball	26.9%	315	96.1	2,358	45.4%	23.3%	58	.259	.885
Slider	3.3%	38	85.5	2,478	39.5%	18.2%	6	—	—
Unknown	1.5%	18	—	—	44.4%	25.0%	1	—	—
Changeup	1.4%	16	90.0	2,017	31.3%	16.7%	3	—	—

Alex Meyer's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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Similar players

Nearest 2017 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Edinson VolquezMIA

ERA: 4.19
FIP: 4.35
SO: 81
WAR: 1.0

Mike ClevingerCLE

ERA: 3.11
FIP: 3.85
SO: 137
WAR: 2.0

Sean NewcombATL

ERA: 4.32
FIP: 4.19
SO: 108
WAR: 1.4

Blake SnellTB

ERA: 4.04
FIP: 4.19
SO: 119
WAR: 1.7

How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.