Players · B · Pitcher · 2007 regular season
Rob Bell
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Born
- January 17, 1977 in Newburgh, NY, United States
- MLB debut
- April 8, 2000
- dbWAR
- -.8 Regular season, 2005–2007 only
- IP
- 53.0
- ERA
- 5.94
- FIP
- 5.26
- K/9
- 4.8
- FIP−
- 118 100 = avg
Rob Bell was a relief pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2007 he struck out 28 batters over 53.0 innings across 30 appearances, going 4-3. His ERA of 5.94 was 32.9% higher than the league average of 4.47 — 10th of 18 on his team, and 408th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.26 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 21.8% of swings (10.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 11.2%. His -0.1 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, 2007 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2007; 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 | 112 | 92 | 36 | 2 | 17 | 9 | .391 | .477 | .533 | .437 | 8.0% |
| vs RHB | 139 | 131 | 37 | 5 | 7 | 19 | .282 | .317 | .481 | .345 | 13.7% |
Not in the 2007 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 2007 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.