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Mike Timlin
- Age
- 42
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Number
- #50
- Born
- March 10, 1966 in Midland, TX, United States
- MLB debut
- April 8, 1991
- dbWAR
- 2.3 Regular season, 2005–2008 only
- IP
- 49.1
- ERA
- 5.66
- FIP
- 5.48
- K/9
- 5.8
- FIP−
- 127 100 = avg
Mike Timlin was a relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2008 he struck out 32 batters over 49.1 innings across 47 appearances, going 4-4. His ERA of 5.66 was 30.8% higher than the league average of 4.32 — 12th of 14 on his team, and 399th of 482 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.48 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 19.8% of swings (9.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.1%. 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, 2008 regular season.
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 2005–2008; his career began in 1991, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 Post | BOS | ALCS | 2 | 0 | 2.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 10.13 | 2.25 | 0.0 |
| 2007 Post | BOS | Postseason total | 6 | 0 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3.18 | 0.53 | 11.1 |
| ALCS | 3 | 0 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | 0.30 | 8.1 | ||
| World Series | 3 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7.71 | 0.86 | 15.4 | ||
| 2005 Post | BOS | ALDS | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9.00 | 1.00 | 9.0 |
| 2005–2008 | Postseason total · 3 Octobers | 9 | 0 | 9.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 5.79 | 1.07 | 7.7 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 105 | 95 | 32 | 6 | 9 | 17 | .337 | .394 | .653 | .439 | 16.2% |
| vs RHB | 122 | 104 | 28 | 3 | 11 | 15 | .269 | .336 | .413 | .334 | 12.3% |
Pitch sequencing
What Mike Timlin 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.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 254 | 91.9 | 2,289 | 52.0% | 15.0% | 59 | .254 | .723 | |
| Sinker | 197 | 91.1 | 2,183 | 43.1% | 29.0% | 41 | .390 | 1.100 | |
| Cutter | 175 | 89.9 | 1,558 | 43.4% | 15.4% | 49 | .286 | .783 | |
| Slider | 83 | 87.8 | 1,099 | 37.3% | 24.3% | 23 | .261 | .885 | |
| Splitter | 82 | 83.7 | 1,831 | 32.9% | 19.0% | 24 | .292 | .870 | |
| Unknown | 24 | — | — | 20.8% | 12.5% | 3 | — | — |
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Nearest 2008 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.