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Zack Godley

Age
31
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 3"
Weight
250 lb
Born
April 21, 1990 in Bamberg, SC, United States
MLB debut
July 23, 2015

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dbWAR
5.5
Regular season, 13 season(s)
IP
3.1
ERA
16.20
FIP
13.37
K/9
13.5
FIP−
313
100 = avg

Zack Godley was a relief pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2021 he struck out 5 batters over 3.1 innings across 2 appearances, going 0-1. His ERA of 16.20 was 279.8% higher than the league average of 4.27. Stripping out defence, his 13.37 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 36.4% of swings (13.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 23.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 23.8%. His -0.3 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, 2021 regular season.

FIP13.37
K/913.5
WHIP2.70
WAR-.3

WAR by season

3.71.6-0.515161718192021

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

Trend
2021MIL213.1010465516.2013.372.7013.513.5380313-0.3
2020BOS8728.2040422628148.167.101.958.84.4183159-0.5
2019AZ/TOR33992.0452966170425.975.201.506.84.1132115-0.0
2018AZ3332178.11511017794185814.743.821.459.34.1114922.9
2017AZ2625155.089012458165533.373.411.149.63.177783.7
2016AZ27974.2540865360256.394.971.497.23.01521190.0
2015AZ9636.2510291334173.194.331.258.34.2811090.2

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

Trend
2021MIL11000000—————0.0%0.0%———0.0
2019AZ/TOR14233020310.158.273.158.000.33313.0%43.5%.216-2.1280.1
2018AZ31653010430.057.123.057.000.1306.2%46.2%.096-11.7-53-0.1
2017AZ25532020226.048.091.048.000.1253.8%49.1%.072-11.2-69-0.4
2016AZ1019200009.111.111.111.000.2220.0%47.4%.097-3.4-48-0.1
2015AZ610100006.111.111.111.000.3330.0%60.0%.098-1.7-53-0.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Zack Godley's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2017 PostAZNLDS105.0000420253.601.209.0

Postseason batting

Postseason Zack Godley's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPS
2017 PostAZNLDS122000000010.000.000.000.000

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2021. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB521030.500.800.500.6100.0%
vs RHB16133225.231.375.692.44131.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2021.

Pitch sequencing

What Zack Godley throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Knuckle curveCutterFour-seamSinker

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Cutter40.9%3688.52,32455.6%28.6%8——
Knuckle Curve37.5%3382.42,17833.3%50.0%4——
Sinker11.4%1090.62,13820.0%25.0%2——
Zack Godley'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.