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Brett Graves

Age: 25
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 170 lb

Born: January 30, 1993 in St Charles, MO, United States
MLB debut: June 17, 2018

dbWAR: -.0
IP: 33.1
ERA: 5.40
FIP: 4.51
K/9: 5.7
FIP−: 109

Brett Graves was a relief pitcher for the Miami Marlins. In 2018 he struck out 21 batters over 33.1 innings across 21 appearances, going 1-1. His ERA of 5.40 was 30.1% higher than the league average of 4.15 — 16th of 22 on his team, and 426th of 530 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.51 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 24.2% of swings (11.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.2%. His 0.0 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.

FIP4.51

K/95.7

WHIP1.59

WAR.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2018	MIA	21	0	33.1	1	1	1	41	20	21	12	5.40	4.51	1.59	5.7	3.2	130	109	0.0	—

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2018	MIA	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-130	-0.0	—

Platoon splits

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

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	65	60	21	1	4	11	.350	.400	.483	.382	16.9%
vs RHB	83	72	20	2	8	10	.278	.373	.444	.358	12.0%

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 Brett Graves 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 Fastball	37.0%	197	92.3	2,134	43.7%	25.0%	38	.263	.754
Slider	30.2%	161	89.1	2,215	36.6%	23.8%	45	.289	.716
Curveball	17.3%	92	80.7	2,658	41.3%	32.5%	20	.450	1.326
Sinker	15.6%	83	91.2	1,930	34.9%	16.7%	29	.310	.808

Brett Graves'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.

Brandon KintzlerWSH

ERA: 4.60
FIP: 4.10
SO: 43
WAR: 0.5

Very close

Javy GuerraMIA

ERA: 5.55
FIP: 4.20
SO: 30
WAR: 0.1

Very close

Artie LewickiDET

ERA: 4.89
FIP: 4.12
SO: 30
WAR: 0.3

Very close

Glenn SparkmanKC

ERA: 4.46
FIP: 4.02
SO: 27
WAR: 0.3

Very close

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.