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Cody Allen

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #37

Born: November 20, 1988 in Orlando, FL, United States
MLB debut: July 20, 2012

dbWAR: 4.1
IP: 23.0
ERA: 6.26
FIP: 8.39
K/9: 11.3
FIP−: 186

Cody Allen was a relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2019 he struck out 29 batters over 23.0 innings across 25 appearances, going 0-2. His ERA of 6.26 was 39.0% higher than the league average of 4.51 — 16th of 21 on his team, and 472nd of 545 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 8.39 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 26.8% of swings (10.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 17.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 25.0%. His -0.8 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.

FIP8.39

K/911.3

WHIP1.91

WAR-.8

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	LAA	25	23.0	0	2	4	24	16	29	20	6.26	8.39	1.91	11.3	7.8	139	186	-0.8
2018	CLE	70	67.0	4	6	27	58	35	80	33	4.70	4.56	1.36	10.7	4.4	113	110	0.1
2017	CLE	69	67.1	3	7	30	57	22	92	21	2.94	3.19	1.16	12.3	2.8	67	73	1.3
2016	CLE	67	68.0	3	5	32	41	19	87	27	2.51	3.31	1.00	11.5	3.6	60	79	1.2
2015	CLE	70	69.1	2	5	34	56	23	99	25	2.99	1.82	1.17	12.9	3.2	75	46	2.3

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2019	LAA	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-118	-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	53	41	10	5	11	14	.244	.396	.634	.421	26.4%
vs RHB	63	53	14	4	9	15	.264	.371	.623	.409	23.8%

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 Cody Allen 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	53.8%	264	92.2	2,459	48.5%	15.2%	51	.314	1.263
Knuckle Curve	46.2%	227	82.6	2,533	39.2%	42.7%	43	.186	.681

Cody Allen'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.

José QuijadaMIA

ERA: 5.76
FIP: 7.66
SO: 44
WAR: -0.8

Austin DavisPHI

ERA: 6.53
FIP: 7.13
SO: 24
WAR: -0.5

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ERA: 7.77
FIP: 7.30
SO: 24
WAR: -0.5

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ERA: 6.53
FIP: 8.00
SO: 30
WAR: -0.7

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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.