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Tyler Skaggs

Age: 28
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #45

Born: July 13, 1991 in Woodland Hills, CA, United States
MLB debut: August 22, 2012

dbWAR: 5.3
IP: 79.2
ERA: 4.29
FIP: 3.85
K/9: 8.8
FIP−: 86

Tyler Skaggs was a starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2019 he struck out 78 batters over 79.2 innings across 15 appearances, 15 of them starts, going 7-7. His ERA of 4.29 was 4.7% lower than the league average of 4.51 — 5th of 21 on his team, and 238th of 545 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.85 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 21.5% of swings (10.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 23.3%. His 1.6 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.

FIP3.85

K/98.8

WHIP1.27

WAR1.6

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	LAA	15	15	79.2	7	7	73	38	78	28	4.29	3.85	1.27	8.8	3.2	95	86	1.6
2018	LAA	24	24	125.1	8	10	127	56	129	40	4.02	3.63	1.33	9.3	2.9	97	88	2.2
2017	LAA	16	16	85.0	2	6	90	43	76	28	4.55	4.56	1.39	8.0	3.0	104	105	0.8
2016	LAA	10	10	49.2	3	4	51	23	50	23	4.17	3.95	1.49	9.1	4.2	99	94	0.7

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2019	LAA	2	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.000	.000	33.3%	33.3%	.237	-0.2	42	0.0
2017	LAA	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-124	-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	81	75	16	2	5	18	.213	.272	.333	.265	22.2%
vs RHB	254	227	57	7	23	60	.251	.320	.396	.310	23.6%

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 Tyler Skaggs 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	50.4%	699	91.3	2,192	49.4%	17.0%	152	.263	.780
Curveball	33.7%	467	75.1	2,608	48.2%	27.0%	103	.204	.539
Changeup	15.9%	220	83.8	1,699	37.3%	26.4%	48	.250	.697

Tyler Skaggs'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.

Eduardo RodriguezBOS

ERA: 3.81
FIP: 3.86
SO: 213
WAR: 4.0

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Joey LucchesiSD

ERA: 4.18
FIP: 4.17
SO: 158
WAR: 2.4

Very close

Jon GrayCOL

ERA: 3.84
FIP: 4.06
SO: 150
WAR: 2.9

Very close

Homer BaileyKC

ERA: 4.57
FIP: 4.11
SO: 149
WAR: 2.8

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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.