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Ed Whitson

Padres Career team 1983 to 1991
Position P
Born May 19, 1955

Key Insights

1991
This opponent has his number every time they meet

Rich Gedman has hit .667/.786/.778 against Whitson over 14 plate appearances, more than any other hitter has managed.

6 for 9 with 0 home runs and 0 strikeouts, against a .717 OPS median across his matchups.
This matchup ends in a strikeout more often than not

Whitson has struck Darrel Chaney out 8 times in 11 plate appearances, 72.7% of everything between them.

8 strikeouts in 11 plate appearances.
He cannot get the bat on this opponent's pitches

No hitter swings through more of what Whitson throws than Mel Hall: 62.5% of the swings between them come up empty.

14 plate appearances between them. 98th percentile of the 192 matchups on his own record.
He owns this opponent, and the record is not close

Doug Flynn is 0 for 12 against Whitson, a .000 average that is the worst any regular opponent has managed.

12 career plate appearances.
The long balls in this matchup all go one way

Dale Murphy has taken Whitson deep 7 times, once every 12.7 plate appearances between them.

89 career plate appearances against him.
He has faced this opponent enough for it to mean something

Whitson has faced 827 different batters across 8,819 plate appearances, and seen 244 of them at least 12 times.

all-time head-to-head totals.

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Player Bio Data
DOB May 19, 1955