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Pedro Villarreal

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 235 lb
Number: #62

Born: December 9, 1987 in Edinburg, TX, United States
MLB debut: September 5, 2012

dbWAR: -.4
IP: 50.0
ERA: 3.42
FIP: 4.43
K/9: 5.2
FIP−: 112

Pedro Villarreal was a relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2015 he struck out 29 batters over 50.0 innings across 29 appearances, going 1-3. His ERA of 3.42 was 13.7% lower than the league average of 3.96 — 4th of 20 on his team, and 173rd of 513 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.43 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 17.1% of swings (9.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 5.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.6%. His 0.0 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, 2015 regular season.

FIP4.43

K/95.2

WHIP1.38

WAR.0

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.


2015	CIN	29	0	50.0	1	3	57	19	29	12	3.42	4.43	1.38	5.2	2.2	86	112	0.0
2014	CIN	12	0	14.2	0	2	11	7	12	7	4.30	4.02	1.23	7.4	4.3	115	107	0.0
2013	CIN	2	1	5.2	0	1	13	8	4	3	12.71	12.40	2.82	6.4	4.8	329	321	-0.5
2012	CIN	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.00	1.09	0.00	9.0	0.0	0	27	0.0

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.


2015	CIN	5	6	1	2	3	.167	.167	.333	.167	.333	0.0%	50.0%	.213	-0.5	26	0.0
2014	CIN	2	2	1	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.000	1.000	0.0%	50.0%	.449	+0.2	197	0.1
2013	CIN	1	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.2	-123	-0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2015. 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	89	78	25	2	6	9	.321	.364	.462	.348	10.1%
vs RHB	125	116	32	4	6	20	.276	.323	.422	.328	16.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2015.

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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 Pedro Villarreal throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

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

Season


Sinker	40.2%	317	92.3	1,969	45.7%	9.6%	90	.367	.925
Curveball	22.9%	181	84.4	542	50.8%	32.6%	37	.270	.742
Slider	19.5%	154	89.1	1,154	47.4%	16.7%	37	.216	.581
Four-Seam Fastball	11.8%	93	92.3	1,950	37.6%	14.6%	22	.091	.303
Changeup	4.2%	33	86.3	1,385	27.3%	14.3%	7	—	—

Pedro Villarreal'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 2015 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Josh CollmenterAZ

ERA: 3.79
FIP: 4.65
SO: 63
WAR: -0.0

Christian BergmanCOL

ERA: 4.74
FIP: 4.23
SO: 37
WAR: 0.4

Seth ManessSTL

ERA: 4.26
FIP: 3.78
SO: 46
WAR: 0.5

Matt AndrieseTB

ERA: 4.11
FIP: 4.14
SO: 49
WAR: 0.4

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.