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Matt Kinney

Age
29
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 5"
Weight
230 lb
Number
#50
Born
December 16, 1976 in Bangor, ME, United States
MLB debut
August 18, 2000

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dbWAR
-.2
Regular season, 2005 only
IP
12.0
ERA
6.00
FIP
6.44
K/9
2.3
FIP−
150
100 = avg

Matt Kinney was a relief pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. In 2005 he struck out 3 batters over 12.0 innings across 5 appearances, going 2-0. His ERA of 6.00 was 39.8% higher than the league average of 4.29. Stripping out defence, his 6.44 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 7.7% of swings (3.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 5.5%. 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, 2005 regular season.

FIP6.44
K/92.3
WHIP2.00
WAR-.2

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 2000, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2005SF5112.0200188366.006.442.002.34.5140150-0.2—

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 2000, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2005SF23100001.333.333.333.000.5000.0%33.3%.298-0.1790.0—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2005. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB20178031.471.550.588.5035.0%
vs RHB353010232.333.412.567.4285.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2005.

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Not in the 2005 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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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.