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Alan Embree

Age
39
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 2"
Weight
200 lb
Number
#41
Born
January 23, 1970 in The Dalles, OR, United States
MLB debut
September 15, 1992

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dbWAR
2.2
Regular season, 2005–2009 only
IP
24.2
ERA
5.84
FIP
5.29
K/9
4.4
FIP−
122
100 = avg

Alan Embree was a relief pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. In 2009 he struck out 12 batters over 24.2 innings across 36 appearances, going 2-2. His ERA of 5.84 was 35.1% higher than the league average of 4.32 — 12th of 15 on his team, and 412th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.29 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 18.0% of swings (8.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 10.8%. His -0.1 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, 2009 regular season.

FIP5.29
K/94.4
WHIP1.62
WAR-.1

WAR by season

1.10.5-0.10506070809

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 1992, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2009COL36024.2220281612125.845.291.624.44.4135122-0.1
2008OAK70061.2250593457304.964.531.448.34.41151050.2
2007OAK68068.01217673051193.973.531.266.82.589791.0
2006SD73052.1430501953153.272.971.249.12.672661.1
2005BOS/NYY67052.0251624438147.624.981.466.62.4177116-0.1

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 1992, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2006SD11000001.000.000.000.000—0.0%100.0%.000-0.3-131-0.0—

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

Postseason Alan Embree's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2006 PostSDNLDS100.1000000010.000.0027.0

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.

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2009. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB484314234.326.383.512.3968.3%
vs RHB635314198.264.371.396.33912.7%

Pitch sequencing

What Alan Embree throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Four-Seam Fastball61.5%24092.42,21239.6%13.5%59.3561.042
Slider34.1%13379.649243.6%25.8%37.189.427
Alan Embree's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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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.