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Russ Springer

Age: 42
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #36

Born: November 7, 1968 in Alexandria, LA, United States
MLB debut: April 17, 1992

dbWAR: 3.3
IP: 1.2
ERA: 5.40
FIP: 1.88
K/9: 5.4
FIP−: 46

Russ Springer was a relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2010 he struck out 1 batter over 1.2 innings across 2 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 5.40 was 32.4% higher than the league average of 4.08. Stripping out defence, his 1.88 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 12.5% of swings (6.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 0.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.3%. His 0.1 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, 2010 regular season.

FIP1.88

K/95.4

WHIP1.20

WAR.1

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 2005–2010; his career began in 1992, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2010	CIN	2	1.2	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	5.40	1.88	1.20	5.4	0.0	132	46	0.1
2009	OAK/TB	74	57.0	1	4	1	68	26	58	17	4.11	4.06	1.49	9.2	2.7	95	94	0.5
2008	STL	70	50.1	2	1	0	39	13	45	18	2.32	3.51	1.13	8.0	3.2	54	81	0.7
2007	STL	76	66.0	8	1	0	41	16	66	19	2.18	2.83	0.91	9.0	2.6	49	63	1.6
2006	HOU	72	59.2	1	1	0	46	23	46	16	3.47	4.79	1.04	6.9	2.4	77	106	0.2
2005	HOU	62	59.0	4	4	0	49	31	54	21	4.73	4.39	1.19	8.2	3.2	110	102	0.3

Batting Regular season

																					Trend
2007	STL	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-130	-0.0	—

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 Russ Springer's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2005 Post	HOU	Postseason total	5	5.1	7	2	2	3	3.38	1.69	5.1
		NLDS	2	2.1	5	1	1	1	3.86	2.57	3.9
		NLCS	1	1.0	0	0	1	1	0.00	1.00	9.0
		World Series	2	2.0	2	1	0	1	4.50	1.00	4.5

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, 2010. 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	1	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.898	0.0%
vs RHB	6	6	1	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.150	16.7%

Pitch sequencing

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

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Four-seam

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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	87.1%	27	89.2	1,957	44.4%	14.3%	6	—	—

Russ Springer'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.