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Zach Lee

Age: 26
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 195 lb

Born: September 13, 1991 in Plano, TX, United States
MLB debut: July 25, 2015

dbWAR: -.2
IP: 8.0
ERA: 5.63
FIP: 6.28
K/9: 6.8
FIP−: 144

Zach Lee was a relief pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2017 he struck out 6 batters over 8.0 innings across 3 appearances, going 1-0. His ERA of 5.63 was 29.1% higher than the league average of 4.36. Stripping out defence, his 6.28 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 20.0% of swings (8.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 19.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.6%. His -0.1 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 regular season.

FIP6.28

K/96.8

WHIP2.00

WAR-.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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

																				Trend
2017	SD	3	1	8.0	1	0	0	8	5	6	8	5.63	6.28	2.00	6.8	9.0	129	144	-0.1
2015	LAD	1	1	4.2	0	1	0	11	7	3	1	13.50	5.28	2.57	5.8	1.9	341	133	-0.0

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2017	SD	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.8	-128	-0.0
2015	LAD	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-126	-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	17	14	4	0	2	3	.286	.353	.429	.336	17.6%
vs RHB	24	18	4	1	6	3	.222	.417	.389	.370	12.5%

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 Zach Lee 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


Four-Seam Fastball	46.5%	80	90.0	2,128	47.5%	13.3%	8	—	—
Cutter	32.0%	55	86.3	2,380	36.4%	25.0%	16	.125	.410
Sinker	15.1%	26	89.6	2,166	30.8%	27.3%	5	—	—

Zach Lee'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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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.