Players · B · Pitcher · 2005 regular season
Ricky Bottalico
- Age
- 36
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 230 lb
- Number
- #52
- Born
- August 26, 1969 in New Britain, CT, United States
- MLB debut
- July 29, 1994
- dbWAR
- -.3 Regular season, 2005 only
- IP
- 41.2
- ERA
- 4.54
- FIP
- 5.40
- K/9
- 6.3
- FIP−
- 126 100 = avg
Ricky Bottalico was a relief pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2005 he struck out 29 batters over 41.2 innings across 40 appearances, going 2-2. His ERA of 4.54 was 5.7% higher than the league average of 4.29 — 11th of 16 on his team, and 261st of 442 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.40 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 22.0% of swings (9.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.5%. 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, 2005 regular season.
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 1994, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | MIL | 40 | 0 | 41.2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 43 | 21 | 29 | 19 | 4.54 | 5.40 | 1.49 | 6.3 | 4.1 | 106 | 126 | -0.3 | — |
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 | 89 | 77 | 20 | 5 | 10 | 13 | .260 | .341 | .468 | .355 | 14.6% |
| vs RHB | 99 | 85 | 23 | 2 | 10 | 16 | .271 | .364 | .376 | .333 | 16.2% |
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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Nearest 2005 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.