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Cal Eldred
- Age
- 38
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 240 lb
- Number
- #21
- Born
- November 24, 1967 in Cedar Rapids, IA, United States
- MLB debut
- September 24, 1991
- dbWAR
- .3 Regular season, 2005 only
- IP
- 37.0
- ERA
- 2.19
- FIP
- 4.13
- K/9
- 7.1
- FIP−
- 96 100 = avg
Cal Eldred was a relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2005 he struck out 29 batters over 37.0 innings across 31 appearances, going 1-0. His ERA of 2.19 was 49.0% lower than the league average of 4.29 — the third best on his team, and 25th of 442 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.13 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 21.3% of swings (9.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.1%. 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 — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 1991, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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| 2005 | STL | 31 | 1 | 37.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 9 | 29 | 18 | 2.19 | 4.13 | 1.43 | 7.1 | 4.4 | 51 | 96 | 0.3 | — |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 1991, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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| 2005 | STL | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | -0.5 | -124 | -0.0 | — |
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 Post | STL | NLDS | 1 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 27.00 | 4.50 | 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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 74 | 61 | 14 | 2 | 11 | 16 | .230 | .347 | .328 | .304 | 21.6% |
| vs RHB | 86 | 74 | 21 | 1 | 7 | 13 | .284 | .357 | .378 | .328 | 15.1% |
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.