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Brian Fuentes
- Age
- 37
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 230 lb
- Number
- #40
- Born
- August 9, 1975 in Merced, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- June 2, 2001
- dbWAR
- 5.1 Regular season, 2005–2012 only
- IP
- 30.0
- ERA
- 7.20
- FIP
- 5.69
- K/9
- 7.2
- FIP−
- 142 100 = avg
Brian Fuentes was a relief pitcher for the Oakland Athletics. In 2012 he struck out 24 batters over 30.0 innings across 32 appearances, going 2-2. His ERA of 7.20 was 79.3% higher than the league average of 4.01 — the worst on his team, and 470th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.69 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 17.6% of swings (7.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.9%. His -0.4 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, 2012 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2012; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | OAK/STL | 32 | 0 | 30.0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 36 | 24 | 24 | 15 | 7.20 | 5.69 | 1.70 | 7.2 | 4.5 | 179 | 142 | -0.4 | |
| 2011 | OAK | 67 | 0 | 58.1 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 52 | 24 | 42 | 20 | 3.70 | 4.16 | 1.23 | 6.5 | 3.1 | 94 | 105 | 0.2 | |
| 2010 | LAA/MIN | 48 | 0 | 48.0 | 4 | 1 | 24 | 31 | 15 | 47 | 20 | 2.81 | 3.85 | 1.06 | 8.8 | 3.8 | 69 | 94 | 0.4 | |
| 2009 | LAA | 65 | 0 | 55.0 | 1 | 5 | 48 | 53 | 24 | 46 | 24 | 3.93 | 4.42 | 1.40 | 7.5 | 3.9 | 91 | 102 | 0.3 | |
| 2008 | COL | 67 | 0 | 62.2 | 1 | 5 | 30 | 47 | 19 | 82 | 22 | 2.73 | 2.24 | 1.10 | 11.8 | 3.2 | 63 | 52 | 1.9 | |
| 2007 | COL | 64 | 0 | 61.1 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 46 | 21 | 56 | 23 | 3.08 | 4.15 | 1.13 | 8.2 | 3.4 | 69 | 93 | 0.6 | |
| 2006 | COL | 66 | 0 | 65.1 | 3 | 4 | 30 | 50 | 25 | 73 | 26 | 3.44 | 3.97 | 1.16 | 10.1 | 3.6 | 76 | 88 | 0.8 | |
| 2005 | COL | 78 | 0 | 74.1 | 2 | 5 | 31 | 59 | 24 | 91 | 34 | 2.91 | 3.40 | 1.25 | 11.0 | 4.1 | 68 | 79 | 1.3 |
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 Post | MIN | ALDS | 2 | 0 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 0.38 | 6.8 |
| 2009 Post | LAA | Postseason total | 5 | 0 | 4.2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1.93 | 1.07 | 5.8 |
| ALDS | 2 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.60 | 0.0 | ||
| ALCS | 3 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3.00 | 1.33 | 9.0 | ||
| 2007 Post | COL | Postseason total | 10 | 0 | 9.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 6.52 | 1.97 | 10.2 |
| NLDS | 3 | 0 | 2.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0.00 | 1.71 | 15.4 | ||
| NLCS | 4 | 0 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7.36 | 1.91 | 14.7 | ||
| World Series | 3 | 0 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9.82 | 2.18 | 2.5 | ||
| 2005–2012 | Postseason total · 3 Octobers | 17 | 0 | 17.0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 4.24 | 1.47 | 8.5 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 46 | 40 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 8 | .250 | .326 | .425 | .329 | 17.4% |
| vs RHB | 96 | 83 | 26 | 5 | 11 | 16 | .313 | .389 | .554 | .409 | 16.7% |
Pitch sequencing
What Brian Fuentes 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.
| Sinker | 390 | 90.3 | 2,469 | 41.8% | 12.7% | 93 | .333 | 1.046 | |
| Changeup | 92 | 74.0 | 1,561 | 43.5% | 28.9% | 22 | .227 | .477 | |
| Slider | 30 | 75.0 | 695 | 33.3% | 62.5% | 5 | — | — | |
| Unknown | 12 | — | — | 41.7% | 0.0% | 3 | — | — |
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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.