Players · G · Pitcher · 2009 regular season
Tom Gordon
- Age
- 42
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 10"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Number
- #36
- Born
- November 18, 1967 in Sebring, FL, United States
- MLB debut
- September 8, 1988
- dbWAR
- 1.9 Regular season, 2005–2009 only
- IP
- 1.2
- ERA
- 21.60
- FIP
- 8.50
- K/9
- 0.0
- FIP−
- 197 100 = avg
Tom Gordon was a relief pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2009 he struck out 0 batters over 1.2 innings across 3 appearances, going 0-1. His ERA of 21.60 was 399.8% higher than the league average of 4.32. Stripping out defence, his 8.50 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 0.0% of swings, walked 30.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 0.0%. 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 1988, 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 | PHI | NLDS | 2 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4.50 | 1.50 | 18.0 |
| 2005 Post | NYY | ALDS | 3 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3.86 | 0.86 | 7.7 |
| 2005–2009 | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 5 | 0 | 4.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4.15 | 1.15 | 12.5 |
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 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .240 | 0.0% |
| vs RHB | 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .600 | .714 | 1.000 | .687 | 0.0% |
Pitch sequencing
What Tom Gordon 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 | 15 | 90.8 | 1,815 | 33.3% | 0.0% | 2 | — | — | |
| Slider | 11 | 86.9 | 523 | 9.1% | 0.0% | 4 | — | — |
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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.