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Tim Wakefield
- Age
- 45
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Number
- #49
- Born
- August 2, 1966 in Melbourne, FL, United States
- MLB debut
- July 31, 1992
- dbWAR
- 7.2 Regular season, 2005–2011 only
- IP
- 154.2
- ERA
- 5.12
- FIP
- 4.99
- K/9
- 5.4
- FIP−
- 127 100 = avg
Tim Wakefield was a starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2011 he struck out 93 batters over 154.2 innings across 33 appearances, 23 of them starts, going 7-8. His ERA of 5.12 was 29.9% higher than the league average of 3.94 — 12th of 16 on his team, and 385th of 457 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.99 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 20.2% of swings (9.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.7%. 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, 2011 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 2005–2011; his career began in 1992, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | BOS | 33 | 23 | 154.2 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 163 | 88 | 93 | 47 | 5.12 | 4.99 | 1.36 | 5.4 | 2.7 | 130 | 127 | -0.3 | |
| 2010 | BOS | 32 | 19 | 140.0 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 153 | 83 | 84 | 36 | 5.34 | 4.52 | 1.35 | 5.4 | 2.3 | 131 | 111 | 0.6 | |
| 2009 | BOS | 21 | 21 | 129.2 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 137 | 66 | 72 | 50 | 4.58 | 4.58 | 1.44 | 5.0 | 3.5 | 106 | 106 | 1.2 | |
| 2008 | BOS | 30 | 30 | 181.0 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 154 | 83 | 117 | 60 | 4.13 | 4.84 | 1.18 | 5.8 | 3.0 | 95 | 112 | 1.2 | |
| 2007 | BOS | 31 | 31 | 189.0 | 17 | 12 | 0 | 191 | 100 | 110 | 64 | 4.76 | 4.67 | 1.35 | 5.2 | 3.0 | 106 | 104 | 2.0 | |
| 2006 | BOS | 23 | 23 | 140.0 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 135 | 72 | 90 | 51 | 4.63 | 4.93 | 1.33 | 5.8 | 3.3 | 102 | 109 | 1.1 | |
| 2005 | BOS | 33 | 33 | 225.1 | 16 | 12 | 0 | 210 | 104 | 151 | 68 | 4.15 | 4.75 | 1.23 | 6.0 | 2.7 | 97 | 111 | 1.5 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2011; his career began in 1992, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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| 2011 | BOS | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | -1.0 | -115 | -0.1 | |
| 2010 | BOS | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 14.3% | 28.6% | .144 | -1.0 | -25 | -0.0 | |
| 2009 | BOS | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .000 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .451 | +0.2 | 176 | 0.0 | |
| 2008 | BOS | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | -0.8 | -125 | -0.0 | |
| 2007 | BOS | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | -0.6 | -121 | -0.0 | |
| 2006 | BOS | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 75.0% | .000 | -1.1 | -124 | -0.1 | |
| 2005 | BOS | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .000 | .333 | 0.0% | 22.2% | .224 | -0.8 | 27 | 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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 Post | BOS | ALCS | 1 | 1 | 2.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 16.88 | 3.00 | 6.8 |
| 2007 Post | BOS | ALCS | 1 | 1 | 4.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9.64 | 1.50 | 13.5 |
| 2005 Post | BOS | ALDS | 1 | 1 | 5.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6.75 | 1.31 | 6.8 |
| 2005–2011 | Postseason total · 3 Octobers | 3 | 3 | 12.2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 9.95 | 1.74 | 9.2 |
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 | 281 | 257 | 63 | 7 | 19 | 38 | .245 | .304 | .416 | .319 | 13.5% |
| vs RHB | 397 | 354 | 100 | 18 | 28 | 55 | .282 | .338 | .508 | .370 | 13.9% |
Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2011.
Pitch sequencing
What Tim Wakefield 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.
| Knuckle Ball | 2,121 | 65.7 | 920 | 44.4% | 20.7% | 554 | .278 | .805 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 208 | 72.9 | 1,698 | 52.4% | 10.1% | 41 | .171 | .746 | |
| Curveball | 64 | 60.6 | 1,599 | 42.2% | 24.2% | 18 | .111 | .222 | |
| Pitchout | 15 | 71.2 | 1,454 | 0.0% | — | 1 | — | — |
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Nearest 2011 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.