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Eric Milton

Los Angeles Dodgers National League West

Age: 34
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #21

Born: August 4, 1975 in State College, PA, United States
MLB debut: April 5, 1998

dbWAR: 1.7
IP: 23.2
ERA: 3.80
FIP: 3.52
K/9: 7.6
FIP−: 81

Eric Milton was a starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2009 he struck out 20 batters over 23.2 innings across 5 appearances, 5 of them starts, going 2-1. His ERA of 3.80 was 12.0% lower than the league average of 4.32 — 10th of 15 on his team, and 166th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.52 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 20.9% of swings (10.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 5.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.5%. 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, 2009 regular season.

FIP3.52

K/97.6

WHIP1.52

WAR.5

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.


2009	LAD	5	5	23.2	2	1	30	10	20	6	3.80	3.52	1.52	7.6	2.3	88	81	0.5
2007	CIN	6	6	31.1	0	4	39	18	18	9	5.17	4.61	1.53	5.2	2.6	116	103	0.3
2006	CIN	26	26	152.2	8	8	163	88	90	42	5.19	5.36	1.34	5.3	2.5	115	118	0.6
2005	CIN	34	34	186.1	8	15	237	134	123	52	6.47	5.44	1.55	5.9	2.5	151	127	-0.1

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.


2009	LAD	6	11	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.111	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	27.3%	.083	-2.2	-73	-0.1
2007	CIN	6	9	1	0	2	0	2	.143	.143	.143	.000	.200	0.0%	22.2%	.128	-1.6	-39	-0.0
2006	CIN	26	58	11	0	3	2	24	.224	.250	.327	.102	.423	3.4%	41.4%	.253	-4.1	42	0.4
2005	CIN	29	64	8	2	4	3	25	.143	.186	.268	.125	.207	4.7%	39.1%	.204	-6.6	13	0.2

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2009. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	34	32	9	1	1	10	.281	.303	.531	.358	29.4%
vs RHB	74	67	21	1	5	10	.313	.378	.418	.361	13.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2009.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2009.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .262.

Pitch sequencing

What Eric Milton 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.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	51.5%	208	88.4	2,453	46.6%	11.3%	48	.313	.919
Slider	15.1%	61	79.6	957	45.9%	37.8%	21	.286	.714
Curveball	14.1%	57	73.2	633	59.6%	34.8%	15	.200	.400
Changeup	12.6%	51	79.2	2,156	35.3%	29.2%	11	—	—
Sinker	4.7%	19	87.9	2,558	47.4%	16.7%	1	—	—

Eric Milton's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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Similar players

Nearest 2009 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Jason HammelCOL

ERA: 4.33
FIP: 3.71
SO: 133
WAR: 3.5

Very close

Tim HudsonATL

ERA: 3.61
FIP: 3.83
SO: 30
WAR: 0.7

Very close

John LackeyLAA

ERA: 3.83
FIP: 3.73
SO: 139
WAR: 3.3

Brett AndersonOAK

ERA: 4.06
FIP: 3.69
SO: 150
WAR: 3.3

How these are computed

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.