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Mike Lincoln

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #57

Born: April 10, 1975 in Carmichael, CA, United States
MLB debut: April 7, 1999

dbWAR: -.9
IP: 19.2
ERA: 7.32
FIP: 4.35
K/9: 5.5
FIP−: 107

Mike Lincoln was a relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2010 he struck out 12 batters over 19.2 innings across 19 appearances, going 1-0. His ERA of 7.32 was 79.5% higher than the league average of 4.08. Stripping out defence, his 4.35 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 15.5% of swings (5.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.8%. 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, 2010 regular season.

FIP4.35

K/95.5

WHIP1.78

WAR.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2008–2010; his career began in 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2010	CIN	19	19.2	1	0	25	16	12	10	7.32	4.35	1.78	5.5	4.6	179	107	0.1
2009	CIN	19	23.0	1	1	29	21	9	19	8.22	9.27	2.09	3.5	7.4	190	215	-1.2
2008	CIN	64	70.1	2	5	66	35	57	24	4.48	4.51	1.28	7.3	3.1	104	104	0.3

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2008–2010; his career began in 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2010	CIN	1	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-125	-0.0
2009	CIN	2	2	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-127	-0.0
2008	CIN	2	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-125	-0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2010. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	31	27	6	0	3	5	.222	.323	.296	.293	16.1%
vs RHB	63	54	19	1	7	7	.352	.429	.481	.407	11.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2010.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2010.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .257.

Pitch sequencing

What Mike Lincoln 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.

Season


Curveball	37.0%	139	75.7	1,892	43.9%	29.4%	28	.179	.437
Sinker	30.9%	116	88.3	2,059	43.1%	8.9%	28	.357	.853
Cutter	23.7%	89	86.9	1,577	44.9%	9.1%	18	.444	1.357
Changeup	6.6%	25	81.9	1,567	28.0%	0.0%	6	—	—

Mike Lincoln'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.