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Eddie Butler

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 180 lb
Number: #31

Born: March 13, 1991 in Chesapeake, VA, United States
MLB debut: June 6, 2014

dbWAR: -1.6
IP: 49.2
ERA: 5.62
FIP: 6.14
K/9: 5.3
FIP−: 148

Eddie Butler was a relief pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2018 he struck out 29 batters over 49.2 innings across 30 appearances, going 2-3. His ERA of 5.62 was 35.4% higher than the league average of 4.15 — 14th of 20 on his team, and 444th of 530 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.14 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 14.9% of swings (7.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.7%. His -0.7 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.

FIP6.14

K/95.3

WHIP1.57

WAR-.7

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	TEX/CHC	30	0	49.2	2	3	2	59	31	29	19	5.62	6.14	1.57	5.3	3.4	135	148	-0.7
2017	CHC	13	11	54.2	4	3	0	50	24	30	28	3.95	4.66	1.43	4.9	4.6	91	107	0.5
2016	COL	17	9	64.0	2	5	0	87	51	47	21	7.17	5.44	1.69	6.6	3.0	171	130	-0.2
2015	COL	16	16	79.1	3	10	0	102	52	44	42	5.90	5.89	1.82	5.0	4.8	149	149	-0.7

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	CHC	2	3	0	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.000	.000	33.3%	0.0%	.235	-0.2	42	0.0
2017	CHC	11	19	1	1	6	.067	.125	.067	.000	.111	5.3%	31.6%	.099	-3.6	-52	-0.1
2016	COL	12	19	1	0	2	.067	.067	.067	.000	.077	0.0%	10.5%	.058	-4.0	-70	-0.2
2015	COL	15	24	1	0	13	.043	.043	.043	.000	.100	0.0%	54.2%	.038	-5.3	-85	-0.2

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	83	73	19	4	6	8	.260	.317	.466	.331	9.6%
vs RHB	145	129	40	7	13	21	.310	.372	.519	.383	14.5%

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 Eddie Butler 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	34.1%	287	93.6	2,071	41.5%	14.1%	75	.333	.956
Sinker	29.6%	249	93.5	1,991	50.6%	10.8%	56	.250	.689
Cutter	12.4%	104	89.5	2,238	35.6%	20.0%	24	.417	1.190
Changeup	12.4%	104	88.4	1,747	35.6%	18.0%	34	.235	.794
Curveball	11.5%	97	84.0	2,497	42.3%	21.9%	13	—	—

Eddie Butler'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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Similar players

Nearest 2018 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Joe BiaginiTOR

ERA: 6.00
FIP: 5.47
SO: 53
WAR: -0.7

Warwick SaupoldDET

ERA: 4.46
FIP: 5.81
SO: 16
WAR: -0.5

Tyler ThornburgBOS

ERA: 5.63
FIP: 6.04
SO: 21
WAR: -0.4

Chris VolstadCWS

ERA: 6.27
FIP: 5.36
SO: 29
WAR: -0.4

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.