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Eddie Guardado

Age: 39
B/T: R/L
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #18

Born: October 2, 1970 in Stockton, CA, United States
MLB debut: June 13, 1993

dbWAR: .5
IP: 38.1
ERA: 4.46
FIP: 6.10
K/9: 4.7
FIP−: 141

Eddie Guardado was a relief pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2009 he struck out 20 batters over 38.1 innings across 48 appearances, going 1-2. His ERA of 4.46 was 3.2% higher than the league average of 4.32 — 12th of 17 on his team, and 275th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.10 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 15.5% of swings (7.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.0%. His -0.5 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.

FIP6.10

K/94.7

WHIP1.41

WAR-.5

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 1993, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2009	TEX	48	38.1	1	2	0	39	19	20	15	4.46	6.10	1.41	4.7	3.5	103	141	-0.5
2008	TEX/MIN	64	56.1	4	4	4	50	26	33	19	4.15	3.90	1.22	5.3	3.0	96	90	0.7
2007	CIN	15	13.2	0	0	0	16	11	8	4	7.24	5.07	1.46	5.3	2.6	162	113	-0.0
2006	SEA/CIN	43	37.0	1	3	13	44	16	39	13	3.89	5.69	1.54	9.5	3.2	86	126	-0.3
2005	SEA	58	56.1	2	3	36	52	17	48	15	2.72	3.73	1.19	7.7	2.4	63	87	0.7

Platoon splits

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

Season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	60	54	18	2	6	10	.333	.400	.519	.406	16.7%
vs RHB	106	92	21	6	9	10	.228	.311	.457	.336	9.4%

Pitch sequencing

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

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SinkerChangeupSliderFour-seam

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Pitch arsenal

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

Season


Sinker	72.2%	512	85.9	2,448	49.6%	16.3%	89	.236	.818
Changeup	15.0%	106	77.4	1,346	32.1%	12.5%	35	.229	.679
Slider	11.1%	79	77.1	841	38.0%	16.7%	19	.421	1.000

Eddie Guardado'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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Similar players

Nearest 2009 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Dan GieseOAK

ERA: 5.32
FIP: 6.28
SO: 11
WAR: -0.3

Very close

Mike GoslingCLE

ERA: 5.04
FIP: 5.98
SO: 13
WAR: -0.4

Eddie BonineDET

ERA: 4.46
FIP: 5.78
SO: 19
WAR: -0.3

Chris SmithMIL

ERA: 4.11
FIP: 6.12
SO: 35
WAR: -0.7

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.