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Randy Wolf

Age
39
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 0"
Weight
205 lb
Number
#43
Born
August 22, 1976 in West Hills, CA, United States
MLB debut
June 11, 1999

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dbWAR
11.0
Regular season, 2005–2015 only
IP
34.2
ERA
6.23
FIP
4.78
K/9
7.3
FIP−
121
100 = avg

Randy Wolf was a starting pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 2015 he struck out 28 batters over 34.2 innings across 8 appearances, 7 of them starts, going 0-5. His ERA of 6.23 was 57.3% higher than the league average of 3.96 — 18th of 22 on his team, and 477th of 513 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.78 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 16.2% of swings (7.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.4%. His 0.0 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, 2015 regular season.

FIP4.78
K/97.3
WHIP1.76
WAR.0

WAR by season

3.21.3-0.505060708091011121415

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2015; his career began in 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2015DET8734.2050462428156.234.781.767.33.91571210.0
2014MIA6425.213133151965.264.381.526.72.11411170.0
2012MIL/BAL3026157.2510019699104525.654.791.575.93.01411190.4
2011MIL3333212.11310021487134663.694.291.325.72.8941091.6
2010MIL3434215.213120213100142874.174.851.395.93.61021190.6
2009LAD3434214.1117017877160583.233.961.106.72.475923.2
2008SD/HOU3333190.11212019191162714.304.171.387.73.4100962.3
2007LAD1818102.29601105494394.733.991.458.23.4106891.8
2006PHI121256.2400633544335.566.431.697.05.2123142-0.5
2005PHI131380.0640873961264.394.971.416.92.91021160.4

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2015; his career began in 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2014MIA57100001.143.143.143.000.1670.0%14.3%.128-1.0-31-0.0
2012MIL22466040011.150.146.150.000.2000.0%23.9%.130-6.8-29-0.1
2011MIL316610000025.164.177.213.049.2780.0%37.9%.175-7.4-00.1
2010MIL358319051124.247.253.299.052.3521.2%28.9%.245-5.3440.5
2009LAD3381111111222.162.194.265.103.2172.5%27.2%.205-8.4140.3
2008SD/HOU31678020423.138.194.155.017.2296.0%34.3%.169-9.0-13-0.0
2007LAD18375020413.167.265.233.067.29410.8%35.1%.241-2.9350.2
2006PHI1225404028.190.240.286.095.2678.0%32.0%.230-2.2280.2
2005PHI1328401018.154.185.231.077.2223.6%28.6%.187-3.320.0

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 Randy Wolf's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2011 PostMILPostseason total2210.01101494488.101.807.2
NLDS113.00108723221.003.676.0
NLCS117.0100622162.571.007.7
2009 PostLADPostseason total229.00001051745.001.894.0
NLDS113.2000620524.913.004.9
NLCS115.1000431225.061.133.4
2005–2015Postseason total · 2 Octobers4419.01102414511126.631.845.7

Postseason batting

Postseason Randy Wolf's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPS
2011 PostMILPostseason total243011000000.333.333.6671.000
NLDS111000000000.000.000.000.000
NLCS132011000000.500.5001.0001.500
2009 PostLADPostseason total255000000000.000.000.000.000
NLDS122000000000.000.000.000.000
NLCS133000000000.000.000.000.000
2005–2015Postseason total · 2 Octobers498011000000.125.125.250.375

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, 2015. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB30274035.148.233.148.18916.7%
vs RHB1311174251223.359.420.607.43917.6%

Pitch sequencing

What Randy Wolf 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.

Sinker32.7%20488.02,15746.6%9.9%50.4001.194
Slider24.4%15283.169344.7%27.7%36.222.578
Curveball15.5%9769.21,31239.2%11.1%20.250.738
Four-Seam Fastball15.5%9788.72,05348.5%16.0%23.348.945
Changeup11.1%6978.01,66031.9%10.0%16.313.790
Randy Wolf'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.