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Hector Velázquez

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 218 lb

Born: November 26, 1988 in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, Mexico
MLB debut: May 18, 2017

dbWAR: 1.1
IP: 56.1
ERA: 5.43
FIP: 4.74
K/9: 7.8
FIP−: 105

Hector Velázquez was a relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2019 he struck out 49 batters over 56.1 innings across 34 appearances, going 1-4. His ERA of 5.43 was 20.6% higher than the league average of 4.51 — 15th of 20 on his team, and 394th of 545 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.74 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 23.7% of swings (10.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.8%. His 0.3 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.

FIP4.74

K/97.8

WHIP1.53

WAR.3

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	BOS	34	8	56.1	1	4	58	34	49	28	5.43	4.74	1.53	7.8	4.5	121	105	0.3
2018	BOS	47	8	85.0	7	2	97	30	53	26	3.18	4.15	1.45	5.6	2.8	77	100	0.6
2017	BOS	8	3	24.2	3	1	21	8	19	7	2.92	4.58	1.14	6.9	2.6	67	105	0.1

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	BOS	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-117	-0.0
2018	BOS	1	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-118	-0.0
2017	BOS	1	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-121	-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	119	102	24	5	16	24	.235	.336	.480	.346	20.2%
vs RHB	128	110	34	2	12	25	.309	.386	.436	.357	19.5%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2019.

Below averageLeague averageAbove average

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 Hector Velázquez throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

ShowBatter

ChangeupSinkerFour-seamSliderCurveball

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Changeup	30.0%	294	85.9	1,480	36.1%	23.1%	67	.254	.792
Sinker	27.4%	269	91.1	2,051	49.4%	11.0%	55	.400	1.052
Four-Seam Fastball	23.1%	227	92.2	2,175	48.0%	32.7%	42	.238	.801
Slider	16.8%	165	83.0	2,120	41.2%	32.5%	42	.119	.362
Curveball	2.5%	25	76.9	2,162	32.0%	25.0%	5	—	—

Hector Velázquez'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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ERA: 5.34
FIP: 4.71
SO: 55
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ERA: 4.87
FIP: 4.54
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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.