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Deck McGuire

Age: 29
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #68

Born: June 23, 1989 in Richmond, VA, United States
MLB debut: September 12, 2017

dbWAR: -.7
IP: 38.0
ERA: 6.16
FIP: 6.95
K/9: 7.8
FIP−: 167

Deck McGuire was a relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2018 he struck out 33 batters over 38.0 innings across 21 appearances, going 0-2. His ERA of 6.16 was 48.4% higher than the league average of 4.15 — the worst on his team, and 479th of 530 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.95 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 21.9% of swings (9.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 14.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.6%. His -1.0 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.

FIP6.95

K/97.8

WHIP1.68

WAR-1.0

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2018	LAA/TOR	21	4	38.0	0	2	0	38	26	33	26	6.16	6.95	1.68	7.8	6.2	148	167	-1.0
2017	CIN	6	2	13.2	1	1	0	10	4	11	2	2.63	3.16	0.88	7.2	1.3	60	72	0.3

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2018	LAA/TOR	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.000	.500	0.0%	33.3%	.293	-0.1	84	0.0
2017	CIN	2	3	0	0	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.8	-121	-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	85	70	15	3	12	13	.214	.341	.371	.322	15.3%
vs RHB	92	73	23	6	14	20	.315	.435	.644	.453	21.7%

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 Deck McGuire 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	56.1%	401	93.3	2,380	44.1%	19.0%	94	.223	.802
Slider	21.4%	153	83.8	2,541	49.0%	29.5%	25	.480	1.536
Curveball	12.4%	89	76.7	2,634	41.6%	30.0%	17	.235	.670
Changeup	9.8%	70	87.0	2,289	45.7%	17.1%	7	—	—

Deck McGuire'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.

Drew HutchisonPHI

ERA: 6.75
FIP: 6.42
SO: 31
WAR: -0.8

Chris BeckCWS

ERA: 4.50
FIP: 6.84
SO: 21
WAR: -0.9

Junichi TazawaMIA

ERA: 7.07
FIP: 6.12
SO: 28
WAR: -0.5

Comparable

Pedro AraújoBAL

ERA: 7.71
FIP: 7.41
SO: 29
WAR: -0.9

Comparable

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.