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Matt Whiteside
- Age
- 38
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Born
- August 8, 1967 in Charleston, MO, United States
- MLB debut
- August 5, 1992
- dbWAR
- -.5 Regular season, 2005 only
- IP
- 3.2
- ERA
- 19.64
- FIP
- 15.84
- K/9
- 12.3
- FIP−
- 369 100 = avg
Matt Whiteside was a relief pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2005 he struck out 5 batters over 3.2 innings across 2 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 19.64 was 357.6% higher than the league average of 4.29. Stripping out defence, his 15.84 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 19.0% of swings (8.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 21.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.7%. His -0.5 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, 2005 regular season.
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 1992, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | TOR | 2 | 0 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 19.64 | 15.84 | 3.00 | 12.3 | 12.3 | 458 | 369 | -0.5 | — |
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 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | .333 | .600 | .833 | .582 | 10.0% |
| vs RHB | 13 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | .364 | .462 | 1.091 | .625 | 30.8% |
Not in the 2005 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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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.