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Buddy Groom

Age
40
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 2"
Weight
205 lb
Number
#27
Born
July 10, 1965 in Dallas, TX, United States
MLB debut
June 20, 1992

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dbWAR
.0
Regular season, 2005 only
IP
41.0
ERA
4.83
FIP
4.73
K/9
4.4
FIP−
110
100 = avg

Buddy Groom was a relief pitcher for the New York Yankees. In 2005 he struck out 20 batters over 41.0 innings across 47 appearances, going 1-1. His ERA of 4.83 was 12.5% higher than the league average of 4.29 — 10th of 14 on his team, and 295th of 442 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.73 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 16.5% of swings (8.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 10.8%. His 0.0 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.

FIP4.73
K/94.4
WHIP1.54
WAR.0

Pitching Regular season

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

Trend
2005NYY/AZ47041.0111512220124.834.731.544.42.61131100.0—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2005. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB827819249.244.280.372.28911.0%
vs RHB10490323811.356.417.578.42110.6%

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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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.