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Al Leiter

Age
40
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 3"
Weight
220 lb
Number
#22
Born
October 23, 1965 in Toms River, NJ, United States
MLB debut
September 15, 1987

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dbWAR
-.4
Regular season, 2005 only
IP
142.1
ERA
6.13
FIP
5.16
K/9
6.1
FIP−
120
100 = avg

Al Leiter was a starting pitcher for the Florida Marlins. In 2005 he struck out 97 batters over 142.1 innings across 33 appearances, 26 of them starts, going 7-12. His ERA of 6.13 was 42.9% higher than the league average of 4.29 — 14th of 16 on his team, and 388th of 442 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.16 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 13.3% of swings (5.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 14.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.5%. His -0.0 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, 2005 regular season.

FIP5.16
K/96.1
WHIP1.77
WAR-.0

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 1987, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2005FLA/NYY3326142.171201549797986.135.161.776.16.2143120-0.0—

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 1987, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2005FLA14220000012.000.000.000.000.0000.0%54.5%.000-5.9-130-0.3—

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 Al Leiter's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2005 PostNYYALDS403.2100231127.360.824.9

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, 2005. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB1741563931231.250.312.359.30217.8%
vs RHB496391115108666.294.429.450.39513.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2005.

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Not in the 2005 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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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.