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Brian Anderson
- Age
- 33
- B/T
- R/L
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Number
- #34
- Born
- April 26, 1972 in Portsmouth, VA, United States
- MLB debut
- September 10, 1993
- dbWAR
- .0 Regular season, 2005 only
- IP
- 30.2
- ERA
- 6.75
- FIP
- 5.27
- K/9
- 5.0
- FIP−
- 123 100 = avg
Brian Anderson was a starting pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2005 he struck out 17 batters over 30.2 innings across 6 appearances, 6 of them starts, going 1-2. His ERA of 6.75 was 57.3% higher than the league average of 4.29 — 13th of 17 on his team, and 412th of 442 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.27 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 10.7% of swings (4.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 3.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.8%. His 0.0 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, 2005 regular season.
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 1993, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | KC | 6 | 6 | 30.2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 39 | 23 | 17 | 4 | 6.75 | 5.27 | 1.40 | 5.0 | 1.2 | 157 | 123 | 0.0 | — |
Platoon splits
How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 26 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | .080 | .115 | .080 | .096 | 19.2% |
| vs RHB | 107 | 103 | 37 | 7 | 3 | 12 | .359 | .374 | .670 | .443 | 11.2% |
Not in the 2005 data: pitch types, recorded in every park from 2008. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.
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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.