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Travis Harper

Age
30
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 4"
Weight
190 lb
Born
May 21, 1976 in Harrisonburg, VA, United States
MLB debut
August 4, 2000

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dbWAR
-.3
Regular season, 2005–2006 only
IP
42.0
ERA
4.93
FIP
4.55
K/9
6.9
FIP−
101
100 = avg

Travis Harper was a relief pitcher for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. In 2006 he struck out 32 batters over 42.0 innings across 30 appearances, going 2-0. His ERA of 4.93 was 8.9% higher than the league average of 4.53 — 9th of 19 on his team, and 310th of 466 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.55 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 17.2% of swings (7.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.3%. His 0.2 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.

FIP4.55
K/96.9
WHIP1.79
WAR.2

WAR by season

0.2-0.1-0.50506

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.

Trend
2006TB30042.0200622332134.934.551.796.92.81091010.2
2005TB52073.1460885540246.755.431.534.92.9157127-0.5

Batting 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.

Trend
2005TB11000001.000.000.000.000—0.0%100.0%.000-0.3-126-0.0—

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2006. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB6560243412.400.438.650.46318.5%
vs RHB131118383920.322.377.492.38015.3%

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.

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.