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Todd Jones

Age
40
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 3"
Weight
230 lb
Number
#59
Born
April 24, 1968 in Marietta, GA, United States
MLB debut
July 7, 1993

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dbWAR
3.3
Regular season, 2005–2008 only
IP
41.2
ERA
4.97
FIP
5.60
K/9
3.0
FIP−
130
100 = avg

Todd Jones was a relief pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 2008 he struck out 14 batters over 41.2 innings across 45 appearances, going 4-1. His ERA of 4.97 was 14.9% higher than the league average of 4.32 — 11th of 17 on his team, and 330th of 482 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.60 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 10.9% of swings (4.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 7.3%. His -0.3 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, 2008 regular season.

FIP5.60
K/93.0
WHIP1.63
WAR-.3

WAR by season

2.00.8-0.305060708

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2008; his career began in 1993, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2008DET45041.24118502314184.975.601.633.03.9115130-0.3
2007DET63061.11438642933234.263.921.424.83.495880.8
2006DET62064.02637702828113.943.741.273.91.587830.9
2005FLA68073.01540611762142.102.381.037.61.749552.0

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2008; his career began in 1993, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2005FLA33100002.333.333.333.0001.0000.0%66.7%.298-0.1810.0—

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

Postseason Todd Jones's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2006 PostDETPostseason total706.2004700140.001.205.4
ALDS202.0001100020.000.509.0
ALCS303.0002300120.001.336.0
World Series201.2001300000.001.800.0

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.

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2008. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB8976223116.289.371.474.3656.7%
vs RHB1049228278.304.379.435.3647.7%

Pitch sequencing

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

ShowBatter
SinkerCutterFour-seamCurveballChangeupUnknownIN

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Pitch arsenal

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

Sinker47.2%32690.32,45443.9%7.9%88.284.722
Cutter20.4%14187.41,41139.0%11.6%31.258.744
Four-Seam Fastball10.6%7390.12,16145.2%7.1%15.3331.000
Curveball9.7%6770.81,40634.3%15.6%20.250.748
Changeup7.7%5380.02,00543.4%29.2%9——
Unknown3.3%23——39.1%0.0%5——
Todd Jones'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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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.