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Felipe Vázquez

Pittsburgh Pirates National League Central

Age: 28
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #51

Born: July 5, 1991 in San Felipe, Venezuela
MLB debut: April 17, 2015

dbWAR: 7.8
IP: 60.0
ERA: 1.65
FIP: 2.15
K/9: 13.5
FIP−: 48

Felipe Vázquez was a relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2019 he struck out 90 batters over 60.0 innings across 56 appearances, going 5-1. His ERA of 1.65 was 63.4% lower than the league average of 4.51 — the best on his team, and 8th of 545 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 2.15 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 29.0% of swings (14.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 5.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 38.1%. His 1.9 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, 2019.

FIP2.15

K/913.5

WHIP0.93

WAR1.9

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	PIT	56	60.0	5	1	28	43	11	90	13	1.65	2.15	0.93	13.5	1.9	37	48	1.9
2018	PIT	70	70.0	4	2	37	63	21	89	24	2.70	2.43	1.24	11.4	3.1	65	59	1.8
2017	PIT	73	75.1	5	3	21	47	14	88	20	1.67	2.47	0.89	10.5	2.4	38	57	2.0
2016	WSH/PIT	75	77.0	1	6	1	66	35	92	33	4.09	3.46	1.29	10.8	3.9	98	83	1.1
2015	WSH	49	48.1	2	1	2	35	15	43	11	2.79	2.64	0.95	8.0	2.0	71	67	1.1

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	PIT	2	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.6	-119	-0.0
2018	PIT	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-125	-0.0
2016	WSH	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-119	-0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2019. 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	53	47	9	1	3	25	.191	.283	.362	.283	47.2%
vs RHB	183	171	34	4	10	65	.199	.246	.304	.240	35.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2019.

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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 .252.

Pitch sequencing

What Felipe Vázquez 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	59.3%	569	98.5	2,622	55.9%	23.6%	119	.244	.733
Slider	16.7%	160	86.8	2,745	65.6%	37.6%	43	.070	.161
Curveball	14.2%	136	82.5	2,784	51.5%	35.4%	30	.233	.633
Changeup	8.0%	77	88.5	2,020	36.4%	46.2%	22	.136	.390
Sinker	1.7%	16	97.7	2,470	62.5%	25.0%	3	—	—

Felipe Vázquez'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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Nearest 2019 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Liam HendriksOAK

ERA: 1.80
FIP: 1.87
SO: 124
WAR: 2.9

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Ken GilesTOR

ERA: 1.87
FIP: 2.27
SO: 83
WAR: 1.6

Very close

Ryan PresslyHOU

ERA: 2.32
FIP: 2.66
SO: 72
WAR: 1.5

Very close

Seth LugoNYM

ERA: 2.70
FIP: 2.70
SO: 104
WAR: 2.0

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.