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Chad Bradford

Age
35
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 5"
Weight
215 lb
Number
#53
Born
September 14, 1974 in Jackson, MS, United States
MLB debut
August 1, 1998

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dbWAR
3.7
Regular season, 2005–2009 only
IP
10.1
ERA
4.35
FIP
3.77
K/9
5.2
FIP−
87
100 = avg

Chad Bradford was a relief pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2009 he struck out 6 batters over 10.1 innings across 20 appearances, going 1-0. His ERA of 4.35 was 0.8% higher than the league average of 4.32. Stripping out defence, his 3.77 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 11.5% of swings (6.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 3.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 10.9%. His 0.1 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.

FIP3.77
K/95.2
WHIP2.32
WAR.1

WAR by season

1.70.80.00506070809

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 1998, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2009TB20010.1100225624.353.772.325.21.7101870.1
2008BAL/TB68059.1430591417152.124.081.252.62.349940.5
2007BAL78064.2472772429163.343.561.444.02.275801.1
2006NYM70062.0422592045132.902.531.166.51.964561.7
2005BOS31023.121029101043.863.621.413.91.590840.3

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

Postseason Chad Bradford's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2008 PostTBPostseason total708.0000610331.131.133.4
ALDS203.0000100020.000.336.0
ALCS303.0000410213.002.003.0
World Series202.0000100100.001.000.0
2006 PostNYMPostseason total705.2000400120.000.883.2
NLDS200.1000100100.006.000.0
NLCS505.1000300020.000.563.4
2005 PostBOSALDS201.1000100010.000.756.8
2005–2009Postseason total · 3 Octobers16015.00001110460.601.003.6

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.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB854120.800.7501.400.7830.0%
vs RHB474618006.391.383.413.35312.8%

Pitch sequencing

What Chad Bradford 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.

Sinker71.6%13178.11,95350.4%10.0%36.5001.015
Curveball21.3%3966.01,46248.7%16.7%14——
Chad Bradford'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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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.