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Rick Helling
- Age
- 36
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 255 lb
- Number
- #32
- Born
- December 15, 1970 in Devils Lake, ND, United States
- MLB debut
- April 10, 1994
- dbWAR
- 1.0 Regular season, 2005–2006 only
- IP
- 35.0
- ERA
- 4.11
- FIP
- 4.83
- K/9
- 8.2
- FIP−
- 107 100 = avg
Rick Helling was a relief pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2006 he struck out 32 batters over 35.0 innings across 20 appearances, going 0-2. His ERA of 4.11 was 9.1% lower than the league average of 4.53 — 6th of 16 on his team, and 180th of 466 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.83 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 24.1% of swings (10.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 22.5%. 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, 2006 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2006; his career began in 1994, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2006; his career began in 1994, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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 | 58 | 48 | 12 | 2 | 9 | 11 | .250 | .362 | .542 | .386 | 19.0% |
| vs RHB | 84 | 76 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 21 | .171 | .229 | .368 | .259 | 25.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2006.
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Not in the 2006 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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Nearest 2006 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.