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Steve Kline
- Age
- 35
- B/T
- S/L
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Number
- #44
- Born
- August 22, 1972 in Sunbury, PA, United States
- MLB debut
- April 2, 1997
- dbWAR
- .1 Regular season, 2005–2007 only
- IP
- 46.0
- ERA
- 4.70
- FIP
- 4.37
- K/9
- 3.3
- FIP−
- 98 100 = avg
Steve Kline was a relief pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. In 2007 he struck out 17 batters over 46.0 innings across 68 appearances, going 1-2. His ERA of 4.70 was 5.0% higher than the league average of 4.47 — 12th of 16 on his team, and 282nd of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.37 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 15.2% of swings (7.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 7.9%. 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, 2007 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2007; his career began in 1997, 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 2005–2007; his career began in 1997, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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| 2007 | SF | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -128 | -0.0 | — |
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 | 96 | 85 | 27 | 0 | 8 | 9 | .318 | .383 | .365 | .345 | 9.4% |
| vs RHB | 120 | 108 | 31 | 2 | 10 | 8 | .287 | .353 | .407 | .334 | 6.7% |
Not in the 2007 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 2007 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.