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Sidney Ponson
- Age
- 33
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 260 lb
- Number
- #43
- Born
- November 2, 1976 in Noord, Aruba
- MLB debut
- April 19, 1998
- dbWAR
- 2.4 Regular season, 2005–2009 only
- IP
- 58.2
- ERA
- 7.36
- FIP
- 4.72
- K/9
- 4.9
- FIP−
- 109 100 = avg
Sidney Ponson was a starting pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2009 he struck out 32 batters over 58.2 innings across 14 appearances, 9 of them starts, going 1-7. His ERA of 7.36 was 70.4% higher than the league average of 4.32 — the second worst on his team, and 461st of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.72 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 13.8% of swings (5.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 11.7%. 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, 2009 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; 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. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 1998, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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 | 151 | 129 | 48 | 4 | 16 | 17 | .372 | .443 | .543 | .431 | 11.3% |
| vs RHB | 122 | 109 | 31 | 2 | 9 | 15 | .284 | .333 | .440 | .340 | 12.3% |
Pitch sequencing
What Sidney Ponson 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.
| Sinker | 584 | 91.8 | 2,424 | 40.6% | 11.4% | 158 | .335 | .872 | |
| Slider | 156 | 82.3 | 496 | 37.2% | 22.6% | 34 | .206 | .711 | |
| Changeup | 152 | 84.7 | 1,740 | 31.6% | 16.0% | 28 | .357 | .955 | |
| Curveball | 54 | 76.7 | 1,164 | 37.0% | 19.0% | 13 | — | — | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 28 | 91.4 | 1,925 | 39.3% | 0.0% | 3 | — | — |
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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.