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Tim Cooney

St. Louis Cardinals National League Central

Age: 25
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #66

Born: December 19, 1990 in Collegeville, PA, United States
MLB debut: April 30, 2015

dbWAR: .7
IP: 31.1
ERA: 3.16
FIP: 3.58
K/9: 8.3
FIP−: 90

Tim Cooney was a starting pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2015 he struck out 29 batters over 31.1 innings across 6 appearances, 6 of them starts, going 1-0. His ERA of 3.16 was 20.2% lower than the league average of 3.96 — 11th of 16 on his team, and 133rd of 513 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.58 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 20.7% of swings (8.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 22.3%. 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, 2015.

FIP3.58

K/98.3

WHIP1.21

WAR.5

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2015	STL	6	6	31.1	1	0	0	28	11	29	10	3.16	3.58	1.21	8.3	2.9	80	90	0.5	—

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2015	STL	6	11	3	0	0	0	0	0	.300	.300	.400	.100	.300	0.0%	0.0%	.304	-0.1	93	0.2	—

Platoon splits

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

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	26	22	7	0	2	6	.318	.400	.364	.334	23.1%
vs RHB	104	94	21	3	8	23	.223	.284	.404	.299	22.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2015.

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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 .254.

Pitch sequencing

What Tim Cooney 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	47.2%	227	89.5	2,005	43.2%	5.9%	63	.349	.934
Changeup	22.0%	106	82.1	2,073	41.5%	40.7%	26	.154	.549
Curveball	19.8%	95	74.3	1,461	41.1%	25.0%	21	.095	.317
Slider	8.7%	42	81.2	448	57.1%	35.0%	7	—	—

Tim Cooney'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 2015 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Michael WachaSTL

ERA: 3.38
FIP: 3.87
SO: 153
WAR: 2.2

Very close

Félix HernándezSEA

ERA: 3.53
FIP: 3.72
SO: 191
WAR: 2.8

Very close

Jake OdorizziTB

ERA: 3.35
FIP: 3.61
SO: 150
WAR: 2.7

Very close

Scott KazmirOAK

ERA: 3.10
FIP: 3.98
SO: 155
WAR: 2.0

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.