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César Vargas

Age: 25
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 237 lb

Born: December 30, 1991 in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
MLB debut: April 23, 2016

dbWAR: .0
IP: 34.0
ERA: 5.03
FIP: 4.82
K/9: 7.4
FIP−: 115

César Vargas was a starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2016 he struck out 28 batters over 34.0 innings across 7 appearances, 7 of them starts, going 0-3. His ERA of 5.03 was 20.0% higher than the league average of 4.19 — 10th of 18 on his team, and 374th of 512 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.82 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 23.1% of swings (9.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.2%. His 0.2 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, 2016.

FIP4.82

K/97.4

WHIP1.65

WAR.2

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2016	SD	7	7	34.0	0	3	0	41	19	28	15	5.03	4.82	1.65	7.4	4.0	120	115	0.2	—

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2016	SD	6	9	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	55.6%	.000	-2.3	-117	-0.1	—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2016. 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	77	70	19	0	7	19	.271	.338	.329	.300	24.7%
vs RHB	77	66	22	5	8	9	.333	.403	.621	.427	11.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2016.

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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 .255.

Pitch sequencing

What César Vargas 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	62.3%	378	89.3	1,206	42.3%	16.8%	100	.300	.849
Slider	24.4%	148	79.3	968	41.2%	44.2%	24	.292	.820
Curveball	4.8%	29	75.0	1,521	24.1%	60.0%	2	—	—
Changeup	3.0%	18	80.2	1,207	38.9%	25.0%	4	—	—
Cutter	2.8%	17	88.8	1,219	41.2%	0.0%	3	—	—
Sinker	2.1%	13	88.7	1,139	46.2%	25.0%	3	—	—

César Vargas'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 2016 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Andrew CashnerSD

ERA: 5.25
FIP: 4.84
SO: 112
WAR: 0.5

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Kyle GibsonMIN

ERA: 5.07
FIP: 4.70
SO: 104
WAR: 0.9

Very close

Jorge De La RosaCOL

ERA: 5.51
FIP: 5.36
SO: 108
WAR: 0.0

Very close

Jimmy NelsonMIL

ERA: 4.62
FIP: 5.12
SO: 140
WAR: 0.2

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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.