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Henry Owens

Age
24
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 6"
Weight
220 lb
Born
July 21, 1992 in Orange, CA, United States
MLB debut
August 4, 2015
dbWAR
.1
3 season(s)
IP
22.0
ERA
6.95
FIP
7.06
K/9
8.6
FIP−
168
100 = avg

Henry Owens was a starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2016 he struck out 21 batters over 22.0 innings across 5 appearances, 5 of them starts, going 0-2. His ERA of 6.95 was 66.0% higher than the league average of 4.19 — the worst on his team, and 489th of 512 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 7.06 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 26.7% of swings (10.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 19.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 20.4%. His -0.4 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, 2016.

FIP7.06
K/98.6
WHIP1.95
WAR-.4

WAR by season

0.60.1-0.41516

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2016BOS5522.0020231721206.957.061.958.68.2166168-0.4
2015BOS111163.0440623250244.574.281.377.13.41151080.6

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2015BOS12000002.000.000.000.000—0.0%100.0%.000-0.5-117-0.0—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2016. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB27205065.250.444.300.35918.5%
vs RHB76611851416.295.421.672.45221.1%

Pitch sequencing

What Henry Owens 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.

Four-Seam Fastball55.8%23488.52,56938.0%20.5%36.3611.341
Changeup29.6%12476.71,72046.0%40.3%36.222.735
Curveball10.5%4471.01,13147.7%0.0%8——
Slider3.1%1379.989930.8%0.0%1——
Henry Owens'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 2016 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.