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Randy Johnson
- Age
- 46
- B/T
- R/L
- Height
- 6' 10"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Number
- #51
- Born
- September 10, 1963 in Walnut Creek, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- September 15, 1988
- dbWAR
- 11.9 Regular season, 2005–2009 only
- IP
- 96.0
- ERA
- 4.88
- FIP
- 4.91
- K/9
- 8.1
- FIP−
- 114 100 = avg
Randy Johnson was a starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. In 2009 he struck out 86 batters over 96.0 innings across 22 appearances, 17 of them starts, going 8-6. His ERA of 4.88 was 12.8% higher than the league average of 4.32 — 12th of 14 on his team, and 325th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.91 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 24.3% of swings (11.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 20.9%. His 0.4 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.
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 1988, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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| 2009 | SF | 15 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 | .077 | .111 | .077 | .000 | .200 | 3.6% | 57.1% | .093 | -5.5 | -62 | -0.2 | |
| 2008 | AZ | 28 | 60 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 26 | .140 | .204 | .160 | .020 | .292 | 6.7% | 43.3% | .178 | -7.7 | -6 | 0.0 | |
| 2007 | AZ | 9 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | .067 | .125 | .067 | .000 | .125 | 5.6% | 38.9% | .102 | -3.5 | -57 | -0.1 | |
| 2006 | NYY | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .000 | .500 | 0.0% | 66.7% | .150 | -0.9 | -26 | -0.0 | |
| 2005 | NYY | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 25.0% | .000 | -2.2 | -124 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 Post | NYY | ALDS | 1 | 1 | 5.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7.94 | 1.76 | 6.4 |
| 2005 Post | NYY | ALDS | 2 | 1 | 7.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6.14 | 1.77 | 4.9 |
| 2005–2009 | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 3 | 2 | 13.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 6.92 | 1.77 | 5.5 |
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 | 89 | 82 | 22 | 1 | 5 | 23 | .268 | .318 | .427 | .328 | 25.8% |
| vs RHB | 323 | 288 | 75 | 18 | 26 | 63 | .260 | .323 | .524 | .365 | 19.5% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2009.
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Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2009.
Pitch sequencing
What Randy Johnson 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.
| Slider | 520 | 84.5 | 645 | 53.5% | 33.9% | 166 | .235 | .662 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 404 | 90.1 | 2,316 | 40.6% | 11.4% | 92 | .337 | 1.108 | |
| Sinker | 284 | 90.1 | 2,547 | 47.5% | 14.9% | 51 | .235 | .774 | |
| Splitter | 266 | 84.8 | 1,967 | 35.3% | 29.2% | 52 | .269 | .891 | |
| Unknown | 26 | — | — | 50.0% | 20.0% | 9 | — | — |
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Nearest 2009 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.