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Erik Johnson

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #45

Born: December 30, 1989 in Mountain View, CA, United States
MLB debut: September 4, 2013

dbWAR: -1.8
IP: 31.1
ERA: 8.33
FIP: 8.67
K/9: 6.0
FIP−: 207

Erik Johnson was a starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2016 he struck out 21 batters over 31.1 innings across 6 appearances, 6 of them starts, going 0-6. His ERA of 8.33 was 98.8% higher than the league average of 4.19 — the worst on his team, and 505th of 512 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 8.67 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 16.8% of swings (7.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.4%. His -1.3 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.

FIP8.67

K/96.0

WHIP1.82

WAR-1.3

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2016	SD/CWS	6	6	31.1	0	6	0	46	29	21	11	8.33	8.67	1.82	6.0	3.2	199	207	-1.3
2015	CWS	6	6	35.0	3	1	0	32	13	30	17	3.34	5.93	1.40	7.7	4.4	84	150	-0.4

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2016	SD	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	60.0%	.000	-1.3	-117	-0.1	—

Platoon splits

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

Season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	70	64	18	6	3	12	.281	.300	.641	.385	17.1%
vs RHB	76	68	28	8	8	9	.412	.474	.853	.553	11.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2016.

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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 .255.

Pitch sequencing

What Erik Johnson 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	44.9%	257	89.5	2,126	49.4%	10.9%	62	.419	1.440
Slider	21.0%	120	82.8	826	39.2%	26.0%	28	.250	.704
Sinker	16.1%	92	89.9	2,117	41.3%	13.2%	24	.458	1.542
Curveball	9.6%	55	70.9	1,698	23.6%	15.8%	12	—	—
Changeup	8.4%	48	78.6	1,551	31.3%	38.1%	6	—	—

Erik Johnson'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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Nearest 2016 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Jon MoscotCIN

ERA: 8.02
FIP: 9.85
SO: 10
WAR: -1.1

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Raúl AlcántaraOAK

ERA: 7.25
FIP: 8.21
SO: 14
WAR: -0.8

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Lucas GiolitoWSH

ERA: 6.75
FIP: 8.21
SO: 11
WAR: -0.8

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Dillon OvertonOAK

ERA: 11.47
FIP: 9.15
SO: 17
WAR: -1.2

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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.