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Giovanni Carrara

Age
38
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 2"
Weight
230 lb
Number
#55
Born
March 4, 1968 in El Tigre, Venezuela
MLB debut
July 29, 1995

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dbWAR
.5
Regular season, 2005–2006 only
IP
27.2
ERA
4.55
FIP
4.56
K/9
8.1
FIP−
101
100 = avg

Giovanni Carrara was a relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2006 he struck out 25 batters over 27.2 innings across 25 appearances, going 0-1. His ERA of 4.55 was 0.6% higher than the league average of 4.53 — 11th of 15 on his team, and 257th of 466 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.56 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 20.9% of swings (9.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.6%. His 0.2 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, 2006 regular season.

FIP4.56
K/98.1
WHIP1.23
WAR.2

WAR by season

0.40.20.00506

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2006; his career began in 1995, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2006LAD25027.201127142574.554.561.238.12.31011010.2
2005LAD72075.2740653356383.934.321.366.74.5911010.4

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2006; his career began in 1995, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2005LAD22000001.000.000.000.000—0.0%50.0%.000-0.5-129-0.0—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2006. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB565181513.157.232.314.24523.2%
vs RHB6057194212.333.367.632.42520.0%

Not in the 2006 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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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.