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Brian Meadows
- Age
- 31
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 240 lb
- Number
- #46
- Born
- November 21, 1975 in Montgomery, AL, United States
- MLB debut
- April 4, 1998
- dbWAR
- .4 Regular season, 2005–2006 only
- IP
- 69.2
- ERA
- 5.17
- FIP
- 5.40
- K/9
- 4.5
- FIP−
- 119 100 = avg
Brian Meadows was a relief pitcher for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. In 2006 he struck out 35 batters over 69.2 innings across 53 appearances, going 3-6. His ERA of 5.17 was 14.2% higher than the league average of 4.53 — 11th of 19 on his team, and 340th of 466 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.40 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 12.4% of swings (6.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 4.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 11.3%. His -0.2 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. 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. Seasons on file run 2005–2006; his career began in 1998, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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| 2005 | PIT | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -125 | -0.0 | — |
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 | 145 | 130 | 33 | 6 | 11 | 22 | .254 | .306 | .477 | .324 | 15.2% |
| vs RHB | 167 | 158 | 57 | 8 | 5 | 13 | .361 | .373 | .576 | .405 | 7.8% |
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.