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Chad Sobotka

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 7"
Weight: 225 lb

Born: July 10, 1993 in Sarasota, FL, United States
MLB debut: August 10, 2018

dbWAR: .1
IP: 3.2
ERA: 12.27
FIP: 3.74
K/9: 4.9
FIP−: 84

Chad Sobotka was a relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2020 he struck out 2 batters over 3.2 innings across 4 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 12.27 was 175.6% higher than the league average of 4.45. Stripping out defence, his 3.74 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 12.1% of swings (4.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 10.0%. 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, 2020 regular season.

FIP3.74

K/94.9

WHIP2.18

WAR.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2020	ATL	4	3.2	0	6	5	2	2	12.27	3.74	2.18	4.9	4.9	276	84	0.1
2019	ATL	32	29.0	0	28	20	38	19	6.21	5.56	1.62	11.8	5.9	138	123	-0.2
2018	ATL	14	14.1	1	5	3	21	9	1.88	3.93	0.98	13.2	5.7	45	95	0.1

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2019	ATL	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.6	-119	-0.0
2018	ATL	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.000	1.000	0.0%	0.0%	.879	+0.5	472	0.1

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 Chad Sobotka's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2018 Post	ATL	NLDS	3	0	2.1	0	0	0	2	3	1	4	0	11.57	2.57	0.0

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.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2020. 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	6	6	3	0	0	1	.500	.500	.667	.502	16.7%
vs RHB	14	12	3	0	2	1	.250	.357	.417	.343	7.1%

Pitch sequencing

What Chad Sobotka 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	54.3%	44	94.3	2,570	38.6%	5.3%	9	—	—
Slider	37.0%	30	83.3	2,944	46.7%	27.3%	7	—	—

Chad Sobotka'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.