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Glendon Rusch

Age: 35
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #33

Born: November 7, 1974 in Seattle, WA, United States
MLB debut: April 6, 1997

dbWAR: 1.5
IP: 18.2
ERA: 6.75
FIP: 4.28
K/9: 6.3
FIP−: 99

Glendon Rusch was a relief pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. In 2009 he struck out 13 batters over 18.2 innings across 11 appearances, going 2-0. His ERA of 6.75 was 56.2% higher than the league average of 4.32. Stripping out defence, his 4.28 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 16.1% of swings (7.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 3.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.1%. 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, 2009 regular season.

FIP4.28

K/96.3

WHIP2.04

WAR.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 1997, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2009	COL	11	0	18.2	2	0	35	14	13	3	6.75	4.28	2.04	6.3	1.4	156	99	0.2
2008	COL/SD	35	9	83.2	5	5	94	48	55	25	5.16	4.27	1.42	5.9	2.7	119	99	0.7
2006	CHC	25	9	66.1	3	8	86	55	59	33	7.46	7.02	1.79	8.0	4.5	165	155	-1.2
2005	CHC	46	19	145.1	9	8	175	73	111	53	4.52	3.86	1.57	6.9	3.3	105	90	1.9

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 1997, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2009	COL	6	6	2	0	2	.333	.333	.500	.167	.500	0.0%	33.3%	.364	+0.2	113	0.1
2008	COL/SD	13	23	1	0	3	.050	.050	.050	.000	.059	0.0%	13.0%	.045	-5.4	-93	-0.2
2006	CHC	13	18	3	0	4	.200	.200	.267	.067	.273	0.0%	22.2%	.203	-2.0	11	0.1
2005	CHC	20	43	6	1	9	.146	.186	.195	.049	.188	2.3%	20.9%	.176	-5.4	-5	0.0

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2009. 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	20	19	7	0	0	3	.368	.368	.421	.352	15.0%
vs RHB	72	69	28	3	3	10	.406	.431	.638	.462	13.9%

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.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .262.

Pitch sequencing

What Glendon Rusch 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	51.0%	173	89.0	2,115	52.0%	12.3%	36	.417	1.197
Slider	11.8%	40	78.4	401	32.5%	33.3%	13	—	—
Sinker	11.2%	38	89.2	2,232	28.9%	0.0%	13	—	—
Curveball	10.3%	35	73.5	552	54.3%	38.1%	12	—	—
Unknown	9.4%	32	—	—	37.5%	7.1%	7	—	—
Changeup	6.2%	21	80.2	1,535	9.5%	0.0%	7	—	—

Glendon Rusch'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.