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David Wells
- Age
- 44
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 250 lb
- Number
- #33
- Born
- May 20, 1963 in Torrance, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- June 30, 1987
- dbWAR
- 4.9 Regular season, 2005–2007 only
- IP
- 157.1
- ERA
- 5.43
- FIP
- 4.87
- K/9
- 4.7
- FIP−
- 109 100 = avg
David Wells was a starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2007 he struck out 82 batters over 157.1 innings across 29 appearances, 29 of them starts, going 9-9. His ERA of 5.43 was 21.5% higher than the league average of 4.47 — the second worst on his team, and 361st of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.87 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 14.5% of swings (6.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 11.8%. His 0.9 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, 2007 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 2005–2007; his career began in 1987, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2007; his career began in 1987, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 Post | SD | NLDS | 1 | 1 | 5.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3.60 | 1.40 | 3.6 |
| 2005 Post | BOS | ALDS | 1 | 1 | 6.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2.70 | 1.05 | 2.7 |
| 2005–2007 | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 2 | 2 | 11.2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3.09 | 1.20 | 3.1 |
Postseason batting
| Season | Team | Round | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 Post | SD | NLDS | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
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 | 141 | 130 | 38 | 5 | 6 | 23 | .292 | .326 | .492 | .355 | 16.3% |
| vs RHB | 553 | 506 | 163 | 17 | 36 | 59 | .322 | .367 | .504 | .380 | 10.7% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2007.
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Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2007.
Not in the 2007 data: pitch types, recorded in every park from 2008. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.
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Nearest 2007 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.