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Cliff Politte
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 10"
- Weight
- 195 lb
- Born
- February 27, 1974 in St. Louis, MO, United States
- MLB debut
- April 2, 1998
- dbWAR
- .1 Regular season, 2005–2006 only
- IP
- 30.0
- ERA
- 8.70
- FIP
- 7.65
- K/9
- 4.5
- FIP−
- 169 100 = avg
Cliff Politte was a relief pitcher for the Chicago White Sox. In 2006 he struck out 15 batters over 30.0 innings across 30 appearances, going 2-2. His ERA of 8.70 was 92.2% higher than the league average of 4.53 — the worst on his team, and 462nd of 466 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 7.65 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 21.1% of swings (10.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 9.9%. His -0.8 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, 2006 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 2005–2006; his career began in 1998, 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 2005–2006; his career began in 1998, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | CWS | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .000 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .895 | +0.5 | 479 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 Post | CWS | Postseason total | 4 | 0 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2.70 | 0.90 | 5.4 |
| ALDS | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.0 | ||
| World Series | 3 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3.86 | 0.86 | 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 | 48 | 39 | 15 | 4 | 9 | 2 | .385 | .500 | .795 | .512 | 4.2% |
| vs RHB | 103 | 94 | 32 | 5 | 6 | 13 | .340 | .379 | .596 | .410 | 12.6% |
Not in the 2006 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 2006 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.