Players · K · Pitcher · 2008 regular season

Brandon Knight

Age: 33
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #35

Born: October 1, 1975 in Oxnard, CA, United States
MLB debut: June 5, 2001

dbWAR: .1
IP: 12.0
ERA: 5.25
FIP: 3.72
K/9: 7.5
FIP−: 86

Brandon Knight was a relief pitcher for the New York Mets. In 2008 he struck out 10 batters over 12.0 innings across 4 appearances, going 1-0. His ERA of 5.25 was 21.4% higher than the league average of 4.32. Stripping out defence, his 3.72 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 15.9% of swings (7.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 12.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.5%. 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, 2008 regular season.

FIP3.72

K/97.5

WHIP1.75

WAR.2

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2008; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

																				Trend
2008	NYM	4	2	12.0	1	0	0	14	7	10	7	5.25	3.72	1.75	7.5	5.3	121	86	0.2	—

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2008; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

																					Trend
2008	NYM	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.1	-129	-0.1	—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2008. 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	30	25	10	0	4	4	.400	.500	.440	.435	13.3%
vs RHB	27	22	4	0	3	6	.182	.296	.182	.242	22.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2008.

Loading 2 batted balls…

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2008.

Below averageLeague averageAbove average

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 .263.

Pitch sequencing

What Brandon Knight throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

ShowBatter

Four-seamSliderCurveballSinkerChangeup

Select a count to see exactly what Brandon Knight throws in it.

Pitch arsenal

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


Four-Seam Fastball	59.0%	138	91.1	2,258	42.0%	13.1%	28	.393	.919
Slider	24.4%	57	82.3	665	50.9%	16.1%	12	—	—
Curveball	12.4%	29	76.4	857	62.1%	25.0%	6	—	—

Brandon Knight'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.

Compare Brandon Knight with…

Side by side with up to three others.

Compare with… add up to 3 more players

Brandon Knight

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.