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Jake Buchanan

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 232 lb
Number: #58

Born: September 24, 1989 in Charlotte, NC, United States
MLB debut: June 21, 2014

dbWAR: -.1
IP: 14.1
ERA: 8.16
FIP: 5.60
K/9: 2.5
FIP−: 128

Jake Buchanan was a relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2017 he struck out 4 batters over 14.1 innings across 5 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 8.16 was 87.3% higher than the league average of 4.36. Stripping out defence, his 5.60 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 11.6% of swings (5.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 5.2%. His -0.1 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, 2017.

FIP5.60

K/92.5

WHIP2.16

WAR-.1

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	CIN	5	0	14.1	0	24	13	4	7	8.16	5.60	2.16	2.5	4.4	187	128	-0.1
2016	CHC	2	1	6.0	1	3	1	4	1	1.50	4.48	0.67	6.0	1.5	36	107	0.0
2015	HOU	5	0	9.0	0	5	2	5	4	2.00	5.13	1.00	5.0	4.0	50	130	-0.1

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2017	CIN	2	3	1	0	1	0	1	1	.500	.667	.500	.000	1.000	33.3%	33.3%	.528	+0.5	238	0.1
2016	CHC	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-122	-0.0

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2017. 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	32	25	10	0	6	2	.400	.516	.520	.440	6.3%
vs RHB	45	39	14	1	1	2	.359	.409	.487	.387	4.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2017.

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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 .254.

Pitch sequencing

What Jake Buchanan 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	42.0%	95	89.2	1,906	33.7%	0.0%	24	.417	.974
Slider	27.0%	61	83.7	2,255	42.6%	20.0%	18	.222	.633
Curveball	11.5%	26	76.9	1,787	34.6%	6.7%	8	—	—
Sinker	9.7%	22	88.1	1,858	50.0%	18.2%	7	—	—
Changeup	9.7%	22	82.0	1,188	40.9%	25.0%	7	—	—

Jake Buchanan'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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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.