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Adam Liberatore

Los Angeles Dodgers National League West

Age: 31
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 243 lb
Number: #36

Born: May 12, 1987 in Bellflower, CA, United States
MLB debut: April 17, 2015

dbWAR: 1.3
IP: 13.0
ERA: 2.77
FIP: 4.39
K/9: 8.3
FIP−: 106

Adam Liberatore was a relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2018 he struck out 12 batters over 13.0 innings across 17 appearances, going 2-1. His ERA of 2.77 was 33.3% lower than the league average of 4.15. Stripping out defence, his 4.39 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 24.0% of swings (11.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 14.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 22.2%. 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, 2018.

FIP4.39

K/98.3

WHIP1.38

WAR.0

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	LAD	17	13.0	2	1	10	4	12	8	2.77	4.39	1.38	8.3	5.5	67	106	0.0
2017	LAD	4	3.1	0	0	3	1	5	2	2.70	1.96	1.50	13.5	5.4	62	45	0.1
2016	LAD	58	42.2	2	2	34	16	47	17	3.38	2.89	1.20	9.9	3.6	81	69	0.8
2015	LAD	39	29.2	2	2	26	14	29	9	4.25	3.40	1.18	8.8	2.7	107	86	0.4

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2018	LAD	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-125	-0.0
2015	LAD	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.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, 2018. 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	24	15	3	0	7	4	.200	.478	.333	.397	16.7%
vs RHB	30	29	7	1	1	8	.241	.267	.379	.281	26.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2018.

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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 .247.

Pitch sequencing

What Adam Liberatore 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	50.0%	108	90.9	2,174	48.1%	13.2%	21	.286	.995
Changeup	18.1%	39	82.9	1,264	43.6%	33.3%	12	—	—
Unknown	16.2%	35	—	—	42.9%	38.5%	5	—	—
Slider	15.7%	34	83.3	2,085	38.2%	38.5%	6	—	—

Adam Liberatore'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.