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Kelvim Escobar
- Age
- 33
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 230 lb
- Number
- #45
- Born
- April 11, 1976 in La Guaira, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- June 29, 1997
- dbWAR
- 10.2 Regular season, 2005–2009 only
- IP
- 5.0
- ERA
- 3.60
- FIP
- 4.10
- K/9
- 9.0
- FIP−
- 95 100 = avg
Kelvim Escobar was a starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2009 he struck out 5 batters over 5.0 innings across 1 appearance, 1 of them starts, going 0-1. His ERA of 3.60 was 16.7% lower than the league average of 4.32. Stripping out defence, his 4.10 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 35.0% of swings (15.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 17.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.7%. 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.
WAR by season
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 1997, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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 1997, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 Post | LAA | ALDS | 1 | 1 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 5.40 | 1.80 | 9.0 |
| 2005 Post | LAA | Postseason total | 6 | 0 | 11.1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 1.59 | 1.15 | 11.9 |
| ALDS | 4 | 0 | 7.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1.29 | 1.00 | 6.4 | ||
| ALCS | 2 | 0 | 4.1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 2.08 | 1.38 | 20.8 | ||
| 2005–2009 | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 7 | 1 | 16.1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 20 | 2.76 | 1.35 | 11.0 |
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 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | .000 | .154 | .000 | .111 | 38.5% |
| vs RHB | 10 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .571 | .700 | .571 | .579 | 0.0% |
Pitch sequencing
What Kelvim Escobar 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 Fastball | 41 | 93.9 | 2,404 | 53.7% | 33.3% | 5 | — | — | |
| Splitter | 28 | 84.1 | 1,890 | 39.3% | 50.0% | 9 | — | — | |
| Sinker | 14 | 93.7 | 2,319 | 14.3% | 0.0% | 3 | — | — |
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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.