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Chad Smith

Age: 26
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #55

Born: October 2, 1989 in Thousand Oaks, CA, United States
MLB debut: June 22, 2014

dbWAR: .0
IP: 1.1
ERA: 33.75
FIP: 9.13
K/9: 13.5
FIP−: 231

Chad Smith was a relief pitcher for the Oakland Athletics. In 2015 he struck out 2 batters over 1.1 innings across 2 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 33.75 was 751.9% higher than the league average of 3.96. Stripping out defence, his 9.13 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 13.6% of swings (6.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 23.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.4%. 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, 2015 regular season.

FIP9.13

K/913.5

WHIP6.00

WAR-.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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

																				Trend
2015	OAK	2	0	1.1	0	0	0	5	5	2	3	33.75	9.13	6.00	13.5	20.3	852	231	-0.1
2014	DET	10	0	11.2	0	0	0	15	7	9	3	5.40	3.48	1.54	6.9	2.3	144	93	0.1

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2015. 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	8	7	5	0	1	1	.714	.750	.857	.689	12.5%
vs RHB	5	2	0	0	2	1	.000	.600	.000	.431	20.0%

Pitch sequencing

What Chad Smith 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


Sinker	50.0%	24	92.2	1,995	37.5%	25.0%	4	—	—
Slider	37.5%	18	85.2	705	61.1%	9.1%	5	—	—

Chad Smith'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.