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Seth Etherton
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 195 lb
- Number
- #35
- Born
- October 17, 1976 in Laguna Beach, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- May 26, 2000
- dbWAR
- -.4 Regular season, 2005–2006 only
- IP
- 7.2
- ERA
- 9.39
- FIP
- 9.54
- K/9
- 4.7
- FIP−
- 211 100 = avg
Seth Etherton was a starting pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2006 he struck out 4 batters over 7.2 innings across 2 appearances, 2 of them starts, going 1-1. His ERA of 9.39 was 107.5% higher than the league average of 4.53. Stripping out defence, his 9.54 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 15.4% of swings (6.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 15.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 10.0%. 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.
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 2000, 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 | 18 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | .231 | .389 | .308 | .331 | 22.2% |
| vs RHB | 22 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | .368 | .409 | .895 | .519 | 0.0% |
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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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.