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Darren Oliver

Age: 43
B/T: R/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 250 lb
Number: #28

Born: October 6, 1970 in Kansas City, MO, United States
MLB debut: September 1, 1993

dbWAR: 7.5
IP: 49.0
ERA: 3.86
FIP: 4.05
K/9: 7.3
FIP−: 105

Darren Oliver was a relief pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2013 he struck out 40 batters over 49.0 innings across 50 appearances, going 3-4. His ERA of 3.86 was level with the league average of 3.87 — 10th of 20 on his team, and 257th of 496 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.05 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 19.9% of swings (8.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.6%. His 0.2 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, 2013 regular season.

FIP4.05

K/97.3

WHIP1.27

WAR.2

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 2006–2013; his career began in 1993, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2013	TOR	50	0	49.0	3	4	0	47	21	40	15	3.86	4.05	1.27	7.3	2.8	100	105	0.2
2012	TOR	62	0	56.2	3	4	2	43	13	52	15	2.06	2.95	1.02	8.3	2.4	51	74	1.0
2011	TEX	61	0	51.0	5	5	2	47	13	44	11	2.29	2.77	1.14	7.8	1.9	58	70	1.1
2010	TEX	64	0	61.2	1	2	1	53	17	65	15	2.48	2.64	1.10	9.5	2.2	61	65	1.4
2009	LAA	63	1	73.0	5	1	0	61	22	65	22	2.71	3.32	1.14	8.0	2.7	63	77	1.3
2008	LAA	54	0	72.0	7	1	0	67	23	48	16	2.88	3.53	1.15	6.0	2.0	66	82	1.1
2007	LAA	61	0	64.1	3	1	0	58	27	51	23	3.78	3.78	1.26	7.1	3.2	84	85	0.9
2006	NYM	45	0	81.0	4	1	0	70	31	60	21	3.44	4.64	1.12	6.7	2.3	76	103	0.3

Batting Regular season

																					Trend
2006	NYM	13	16	2	0	2	0	1	7	.133	.188	.200	.067	.250	6.3%	43.8%	.180	-2.1	-5	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

Postseason Darren Oliver's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	W	L	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2011 Post	TEX	Postseason total	8	6.1	1	0	0	6	4	1	0	6	5.68	0.95	8.5
		ALDS	2	1.1	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	1	6.75	2.25	6.8
		ALCS	3	2.2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.00	0.00	6.8
		World Series	3	2.1	1	0	0	3	3	1	0	3	11.57	1.29	11.6
2010 Post	TEX	Postseason total	8	9.1	0	1	1	7	5	0	4	10	4.82	1.18	9.6
		ALDS	3	4.1	0	1	0	3	2	0	1	5	4.15	0.92	10.4
		ALCS	3	2.1	0	0	1	1	2	0	3	1	7.71	1.71	3.9
		World Series	2	2.2	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	4	3.38	1.13	13.5
2009 Post	LAA	Postseason total	8	8.2	1	0	0	7	3	0	4	8	3.12	1.27	8.3
		ALDS	3	2.1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0.00	0.43	7.7
		ALCS	5	6.1	0	0	0	6	3	0	4	6	4.26	1.58	8.5
2008 Post	LAA	ALDS	2	1.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0.00	0.75	6.8
2007 Post	LAA	ALDS	1	0.2	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	27.00	3.00	0.0
2006 Post	NYM	Postseason total	2	7.1	0	0	0	6	3	1	1	3	3.68	0.95	3.7
		NLDS	1	1.1	0	0	0	3	3	1	0	0	20.25	2.25	0.0
		NLCS	1	6.0	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	3	0.00	0.67	4.5
2006–2013		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	29	33.2	2	1	1	28	17	2	10	28	4.54	1.13	7.5

Postseason batting

Postseason Darren Oliver's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2006 Post	NYM	NLCS	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

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.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2013. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	79	74	24	4	2	14	.324	.351	.581	.406	17.7%
vs RHB	125	109	23	2	13	26	.211	.298	.321	.281	20.8%

Pitch sequencing

What Darren Oliver 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.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	52.1%	372	87.4	1,681	41.7%	10.9%	109	.275	.836
Slider	25.2%	180	75.2	1,102	46.7%	40.4%	47	.191	.495
Sinker	19.0%	136	87.9	2,254	47.8%	6.7%	22	.273	.771
Changeup	3.1%	22	82.2	1,859	40.9%	27.3%	5	—	—

Darren Oliver'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.