Players · C · Pitcher · 2023 regular season
Luis Cessa
- Age
- 31
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 222 lb
- Born
- April 25, 1992 in Cordoba, VE, Mexico
- MLB debut
- April 8, 2016
- dbWAR
- 1.0 Regular season, 10 season(s)
- IP
- 26.0
- ERA
- 9.00
- FIP
- 5.41
- K/9
- 3.8
- FIP−
- 125 100 = avg
Luis Cessa was a starting pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2023 he struck out 11 batters over 26.0 innings across 7 appearances, 6 of them starts, going 1-4. His ERA of 9.00 was 107.8% higher than the league average of 4.33 — the worst on his team, and 548th of 550 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.41 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 14.6% of swings (6.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 8.3%. 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, 2023 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | CIN | 7 | 6 | 26.0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 46 | 26 | 11 | 12 | 9.00 | 5.41 | 2.23 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 208 | 125 | -0.0 | |
| 2022 | CIN | 46 | 10 | 80.2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 76 | 41 | 59 | 28 | 4.57 | 5.02 | 1.29 | 6.6 | 3.1 | 115 | 127 | -0.3 | |
| 2021 | NYY/CIN | 53 | 0 | 64.2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 55 | 18 | 54 | 19 | 2.51 | 3.39 | 1.14 | 7.5 | 2.6 | 59 | 79 | 1.0 | |
| 2020 | NYY | 16 | 0 | 21.2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 17 | 7 | 3.32 | 3.79 | 1.25 | 7.1 | 2.9 | 75 | 85 | 0.3 | |
| 2019 | NYY | 43 | 0 | 81.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 75 | 37 | 75 | 31 | 4.11 | 4.87 | 1.31 | 8.3 | 3.4 | 91 | 108 | 0.1 | |
| 2018 | NYY | 16 | 5 | 44.2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 51 | 26 | 39 | 13 | 5.24 | 3.74 | 1.43 | 7.9 | 2.6 | 126 | 90 | 0.6 | |
| 2017 | NYY | 10 | 5 | 36.0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 36 | 19 | 30 | 17 | 4.75 | 5.69 | 1.47 | 7.5 | 4.3 | 109 | 130 | -0.2 | |
| 2016 | NYY | 17 | 9 | 70.1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 64 | 34 | 46 | 14 | 4.35 | 5.52 | 1.11 | 5.9 | 1.8 | 104 | 132 | -0.4 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
Separate from the regular season
Postseason Postseason
Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.
Postseason pitching
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Post | NYY | Postseason total | 3 | 0 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4.50 | 1.50 | 6.8 |
| Wild Card | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4.50 | 1.50 | 4.5 | ||
| ALDS | 2 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4.50 | 1.50 | 9.0 | ||
| 2019 Post | NYY | ALCS | 2 | 0 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.00 | 0.50 | 9.0 |
| Career | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 5 | 0 | 8.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 2.25 | 1.00 | 7.9 |
Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.
Platoon splits
How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 62 | 55 | 24 | 3 | 6 | 4 | .436 | .484 | .745 | .513 | 6.5% |
| vs RHB | 70 | 61 | 22 | 0 | 6 | 7 | .361 | .420 | .475 | .392 | 10.0% |
Pitch sequencing
What Luis Cessa 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.
| Slider | 174 | 81.2 | 2,458 | 37.9% | 12.5% | 36 | .389 | .936 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 105 | 91.9 | 2,222 | 45.7% | 7.4% | 28 | .393 | 1.143 | |
| Changeup | 103 | 86.3 | 1,658 | 38.8% | 25.9% | 26 | .346 | .819 | |
| Sinker | 81 | 91.9 | 2,166 | 37.0% | 12.8% | 26 | .462 | 1.346 |
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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.