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Jeff Suppan

Age: 37
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #37

Born: January 2, 1975 in Oklahoma City, OK, United States
MLB debut: July 17, 1995

dbWAR: 5.7
IP: 30.2
ERA: 5.28
FIP: 5.61
K/9: 2.1
FIP−: 140

Jeff Suppan was a starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2012 he struck out 7 batters over 30.2 innings across 6 appearances, 6 of them starts, going 2-3. His ERA of 5.28 was 31.6% higher than the league average of 4.01 — 18th of 22 on his team, and 399th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.61 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 10.7% of swings (4.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 5.1%. 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, 2012 regular season.

FIP5.61

K/92.1

WHIP1.53

WAR-.3

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 2005–2012; his career began in 1995, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2012	SD	6	6	30.2	2	3	34	18	7	13	5.28	5.61	1.53	2.1	3.8	132	140	-0.3
2010	STL/MIL	30	15	101.1	3	8	130	57	51	37	5.06	4.89	1.65	4.5	3.3	124	120	-0.1
2009	MIL	30	30	161.2	7	12	200	95	80	74	5.29	5.70	1.69	4.5	4.1	122	132	-0.8
2008	MIL	31	31	177.2	10	10	207	98	90	67	4.96	5.51	1.54	4.6	3.4	115	128	-0.4
2007	MIL	34	34	206.2	12	12	243	106	114	68	4.62	4.42	1.50	5.0	3.0	103	99	2.6
2006	STL	32	32	190.0	12	7	207	87	104	69	4.12	4.70	1.45	4.9	3.3	91	104	1.8
2005	STL	32	32	194.1	16	10	206	77	114	63	3.57	4.53	1.38	5.3	2.9	83	106	1.8

Batting Regular season


2012	SD	8	14	1	0	0	1	1	.100	.182	.100	.000	.111	7.1%	7.1%	.144	-1.9	-21	-0.0
2010	STL/MIL	15	28	5	0	1	1	6	.192	.222	.231	.038	.250	3.6%	21.4%	.208	-2.6	19	0.1
2009	MIL	29	56	6	0	5	4	12	.143	.217	.167	.024	.200	7.1%	21.4%	.188	-6.6	2	0.1
2008	MIL	30	63	7	0	1	3	13	.140	.189	.160	.020	.189	4.8%	20.6%	.167	-8.6	-13	0.0
2007	MIL	33	75	8	0	2	3	16	.131	.172	.131	.000	.178	4.0%	21.3%	.146	-11.9	-28	-0.1
2006	STL	30	70	12	0	6	5	11	.218	.295	.236	.018	.273	7.1%	15.7%	.255	-4.8	46	0.5
2005	STL	29	67	12	1	5	3	9	.207	.246	.293	.086	.229	4.5%	13.4%	.243	-4.8	40	0.4

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 Jeff Suppan's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2008 Post	MIL	NLDS	1	1	3.0	0	1	6	5	3	2	3	15.00	2.67	9.0
2006 Post	STL	Postseason total	4	4	25.1	1	1	19	7	1	11	13	2.49	1.18	4.6
		NLDS	1	1	4.1	0	1	6	3	0	3	3	6.23	2.08	6.2
		NLCS	2	2	15.0	1	0	5	1	0	6	6	0.60	0.73	3.6
		World Series	1	1	6.0	0	0	8	3	1	2	4	4.50	1.67	6.0
2005 Post	STL	NLCS	1	1	5.0	0	0	3	1	1	3	5	1.80	1.20	9.0
2005–2012		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	6	6	33.1	1	2	28	13	5	16	21	3.51	1.32	5.7

Postseason batting

Postseason Jeff Suppan'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	HR	RBI	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2006 Post	STL	Postseason total	4	9	6	1	1	1	1	3	.167	.167	.667	.833
		NLDS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	2	6	3	1	1	1	1	1	.333	.333	1.333	1.667
		World Series	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005 Post	STL	NLCS	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005–2012		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	5	11	8	1	1	1	1	4	.125	.125	.500	.625

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, 2012. 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	53	48	16	3	3	3	.333	.373	.667	.440	5.7%
vs RHB	84	73	18	1	10	4	.247	.337	.356	.305	4.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2012.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2012.

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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 .254.

Pitch sequencing

What Jeff Suppan 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


Cutter	29.9%	151	82.3	642	43.7%	12.8%	37	.243	.651
Four-Seam Fastball	23.4%	118	85.8	1,727	42.4%	5.0%	25	.320	.953
Sinker	18.0%	91	86.0	2,027	40.7%	2.6%	25	.320	1.050
Changeup	16.4%	83	79.7	1,609	28.9%	14.6%	22	.273	.697
Curveball	10.5%	53	70.3	1,351	28.3%	23.5%	12	—	—

Jeff Suppan'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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Similar players

Nearest 2012 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Dallas KeuchelHOU

ERA: 5.27
FIP: 5.74
SO: 38
WAR: -0.8

John DanksCWS

ERA: 5.70
FIP: 5.01
SO: 30
WAR: 0.1

Henderson AlvarezTOR

ERA: 4.85
FIP: 5.18
SO: 79
WAR: -0.4

Jeanmar GómezCLE

ERA: 5.96
FIP: 5.47
SO: 47
WAR: -0.7

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.