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Kris Benson

Arizona DiamondbacksNational League West
Age
36
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 4"
Weight
205 lb
Number
#34
Born
November 7, 1974 in Superior, WI, United States
MLB debut
April 9, 1999

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dbWAR
1.0
Regular season, 2005–2010 only
IP
14.0
ERA
5.14
FIP
5.29
K/9
5.1
FIP−
130
100 = avg

Kris Benson was a starting pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2010 he struck out 8 batters over 14.0 innings across 3 appearances, 3 of them starts, going 1-1. His ERA of 5.14 was 26.1% higher than the league average of 4.08. Stripping out defence, his 5.29 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 15.6% of swings (6.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 11.9%. His -0.0 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.

FIP5.29
K/95.1
WHIP1.71
WAR-.0

WAR by season

1.30.3-0.705060910

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2010; his career began in 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2010AZ3314.0110188865.145.291.715.13.9126130-0.0
2009TEX8222.1110332111128.467.622.014.44.8196176-0.7
2006BAL3030183.0111201999888584.825.591.404.32.9106124-0.0
2005NYM2828174.110801718095494.134.631.264.92.5961081.3

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2010; his career began in 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2010AZ36100001.200.200.200.000.2500.0%16.7%.180-0.7-10.0
2006BAL39112003.111.111.444.333.0000.0%33.3%.223-0.9240.0
2005NYM25619060522.184.273.204.020.3338.2%36.1%.231-4.9330.3

Platoon splits

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

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB33299145.310.394.517.40415.2%
vs RHB34309123.300.364.433.3608.8%

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.

——————1 AB———1 AB—1 AB———1 AB
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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 Kris Benson throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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SinkerSliderFour-seamChangeupCurveball

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Sinker35.8%8888.82,28535.2%15.0%29.276.723
Slider28.0%6981.381244.9%21.4%13——
Four-Seam Fastball18.3%4588.41,68544.4%5.9%4——
Changeup8.9%2281.11,85036.4%28.6%9——
Curveball8.1%2073.465360.0%0.0%4——
Kris Benson'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.