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Rookie Davis

Pittsburgh Pirates National League Central

Age: 26
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 255 lb

Born: April 29, 1993 in Sneads Ferry, NC, United States
MLB debut: April 6, 2017

dbWAR: -.6
IP: 10.2
ERA: 6.75
FIP: 7.25
K/9: 8.4
FIP−: 161

Rookie Davis was a relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2019 he struck out 10 batters over 10.2 innings across 5 appearances, going 0-1. His ERA of 6.75 was 49.8% higher than the league average of 4.51. Stripping out defence, his 7.25 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 24.2% of swings (12.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 15.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.6%. His -0.2 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, 2019.

FIP7.25

K/98.4

WHIP1.88

WAR-.2

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2019	PIT	5	1	10.2	0	1	0	12	8	10	8	6.75	7.25	1.88	8.4	6.8	150	161	-0.2
2017	CIN	7	6	24.0	1	3	0	38	23	20	14	8.63	7.16	2.17	7.5	5.3	198	164	-0.5

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2019	PIT	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-119	-0.0
2017	CIN	6	8	1	0	0	0	0	5	.167	.286	.333	.167	1.000	0.0%	62.5%	.285	-0.3	73	0.1

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2019. 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	27	20	6	2	5	4	.300	.423	.750	.461	14.8%
vs RHB	24	20	6	1	3	6	.300	.391	.500	.382	25.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2019.

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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 .252.

Pitch sequencing

What Rookie Davis 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	40.1%	77	91.4	2,100	53.2%	19.6%	21	.429	1.528
Sinker	32.3%	62	91.3	1,898	40.3%	32.0%	8	—	—
Changeup	14.6%	28	83.8	1,016	25.0%	20.0%	4	—	—
Slider	8.3%	16	82.6	2,162	37.5%	28.6%	5	—	—

Rookie Davis'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.