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Warwick Saupold

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 223 lb

Born: January 16, 1990 in Perth, WA, Australia
MLB debut: May 14, 2016

dbWAR: -.5
IP: 34.1
ERA: 4.46
FIP: 5.81
K/9: 4.2
FIP−: 140

Warwick Saupold was a relief pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 2018 he struck out 16 batters over 34.1 innings across 31 appearances, going 4-1. His ERA of 4.46 was 7.4% higher than the league average of 4.15 — 9th of 19 on his team, and 330th of 530 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.81 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 14.3% of swings (6.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 10.1%. His -0.5 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 regular season.

FIP5.81

K/94.2

WHIP1.57

WAR-.5

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.


2018	DET	31	34.1	4	1	1	41	17	16	13	4.46	5.81	1.57	4.2	3.4	107	140	-0.5
2017	DET	45	62.2	3	2	0	64	34	44	31	4.88	5.39	1.52	6.3	4.5	112	124	-0.3
2016	DET	6	9.2	1	1	0	17	8	10	3	7.45	2.32	2.07	9.3	2.8	178	55	0.3

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

																					Trend
2018	DET	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, 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	73	63	22	4	7	7	.349	.417	.635	.442	9.6%
vs RHB	85	77	19	2	6	9	.247	.310	.377	.304	10.6%

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 Warwick Saupold 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	42.3%	262	91.6	2,106	35.5%	3.5%	62	.306	.961
Slider	34.2%	212	88.1	2,213	40.6%	22.3%	48	.229	.565
Curveball	17.6%	109	80.0	2,597	30.3%	24.3%	20	.300	.900
Changeup	5.8%	36	85.3	2,094	30.6%	15.8%	10	—	—

Warwick Saupold'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.

Eddie ButlerTEX

ERA: 5.62
FIP: 6.14
SO: 29
WAR: -0.7

Elieser HernándezMIA

ERA: 5.21
FIP: 5.29
SO: 45
WAR: -0.5

Tyler WebbSTL

ERA: 4.43
FIP: 5.08
SO: 15
WAR: -0.1

Jackson StephensCIN

ERA: 4.93
FIP: 5.22
SO: 33
WAR: -0.2

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.