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Chris Michalak
- Age
- 35
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 195 lb
- Born
- January 4, 1971 in Joliet, IL, United States
- MLB debut
- August 22, 1998
- dbWAR
- -.2 Regular season, 2006 only
- IP
- 35.0
- ERA
- 4.89
- FIP
- 6.43
- K/9
- 2.6
- FIP−
- 142 100 = avg
Chris Michalak was a starting pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2006 he struck out 10 batters over 35.0 innings across 8 appearances, 6 of them starts, going 2-4. His ERA of 4.89 was 7.9% higher than the league average of 4.53 — 8th of 16 on his team, and 303rd of 466 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.43 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 13.9% of swings (6.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 6.2%. 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, 2006 regular season.
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2006; his career began in 1998, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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| 2006 | CIN | 8 | 6 | 35.0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 42 | 19 | 10 | 16 | 4.89 | 6.43 | 1.66 | 2.6 | 4.1 | 108 | 142 | -0.3 | — |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2006; his career began in 1998, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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| 2006 | CIN | 7 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | .250 | .333 | .375 | .125 | .667 | 9.1% | 45.5% | .320 | -0.2 | 85 | 0.1 | — |
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 | 32 | 29 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | .276 | .344 | .379 | .328 | 9.4% |
| vs RHB | 130 | 109 | 34 | 5 | 14 | 7 | .312 | .400 | .532 | .403 | 5.4% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2006.
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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.