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Brandon Beachy

Los Angeles Dodgers National League West

Age: 29
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #37

Born: September 3, 1986 in Kokomo, IN, United States
MLB debut: September 20, 2010

dbWAR: -.1
IP: 8.0
ERA: 7.88
FIP: 5.76
K/9: 5.6
FIP−: 145

Brandon Beachy was a starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2015 he struck out 5 batters over 8.0 innings across 2 appearances, 2 of them starts, going 0-1. His ERA of 7.88 was 98.8% higher than the league average of 3.96. Stripping out defence, his 5.76 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 12.5% of swings (5.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 15.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.8%. 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, 2015.

FIP5.76

K/95.6

WHIP2.00

WAR-.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

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2015	LAD	2	2	8.0	0	1	0	10	7	5	6	7.88	5.76	2.00	5.6	6.8	199	145	-0.1	—

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

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2015	LAD	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-126	-0.0	—

Platoon splits

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

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	16	15	3	1	1	3	.200	.250	.467	.283	18.8%
vs RHB	23	17	7	0	5	2	.412	.545	.588	.486	8.7%

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 Brandon Beachy 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.


Four-Seam Fastball	60.0%	96	89.1	2,037	47.9%	5.4%	14	—	—
Slider	16.3%	26	83.2	597	30.8%	13.3%	8	—	—
Curveball	11.3%	18	70.9	1,723	38.9%	44.4%	3	—	—
Changeup	8.8%	14	79.7	1,890	50.0%	10.0%	7	—	—

Brandon Beachy'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.