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Josh Fogg

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #27

Born: December 13, 1976 in Lynn, MA, United States
MLB debut: September 2, 2001

dbWAR: .7
IP: 45.2
ERA: 3.74
FIP: 5.29
K/9: 5.3
FIP−: 122

Josh Fogg was a relief pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. In 2009 he struck out 27 batters over 45.2 innings across 24 appearances, going 0-2. His ERA of 3.74 was 13.4% lower than the league average of 4.32 — 4th of 15 on his team, and 155th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.29 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 21.5% of swings (9.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.4%. 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, 2009 regular season.

FIP5.29

K/95.3

WHIP1.14

WAR-.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2009	COL	24	1	45.2	0	2	32	19	27	20	3.74	5.29	1.14	5.3	3.9	87	122	-0.1
2008	CIN	22	14	78.1	2	7	97	66	45	27	7.58	6.07	1.58	5.2	3.1	175	140	-0.8
2007	COL	30	29	165.2	10	9	194	91	94	59	4.94	5.21	1.53	5.1	3.2	111	117	0.7
2006	COL	31	31	172.0	11	9	206	105	93	60	5.49	5.03	1.55	4.9	3.1	121	111	1.3
2005	PIT	34	28	169.1	6	11	196	95	85	53	5.05	5.13	1.47	4.5	2.8	118	120	0.2

Batting Regular season


2009	COL	9	12	1	0	1	1	.111	.200	.111	.000	.125	8.3%	8.3%	.162	-1.7	-15	-0.0
2008	CIN	17	26	3	0	1	9	.136	.174	.182	.045	.231	3.8%	34.6%	.166	-3.6	-14	-0.0
2007	COL	27	63	7	1	1	19	.132	.148	.132	.000	.206	1.6%	30.2%	.130	-10.9	-38	-0.3
2006	COL	31	70	5	2	3	20	.098	.164	.118	.020	.161	4.3%	28.6%	.142	-11.5	-29	-0.1
2005	PIT	28	56	5	3	3	14	.106	.160	.128	.021	.152	5.4%	25.0%	.140	-8.7	-30	-0.1

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Josh Fogg's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2007 Post	COL	Postseason total	3	2	10.2	2	1	18	7	1	3	6	5.91	1.97	5.1
		NLDS	1	0	2.0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.50	4.5
		NLCS	1	1	6.0	1	0	7	1	1	1	3	1.50	1.33	4.5
		World Series	1	1	2.2	0	1	10	6	0	2	2	20.25	4.50	6.8

Postseason batting

Postseason Josh Fogg's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	BB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2007 Post	COL	Postseason total	2	3	2	1	.000	.333	.000	.333
		NLDS	1	1	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	1	2	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.500

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2009. 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	91	77	17	4	13	15	.221	.333	.494	.358	16.5%
vs RHB	96	85	15	3	7	12	.176	.240	.294	.241	12.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2009.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2009.

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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 .262.

Pitch sequencing

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

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CutterFour-seamSinkerChangeupSliderFastball

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Pitch arsenal

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

Season


Cutter	28.4%	203	84.6	921	40.9%	23.8%	57	.193	.624
Four-Seam Fastball	25.7%	184	86.5	1,346	42.4%	9.9%	33	.242	.844
Sinker	21.0%	150	86.6	1,890	40.7%	17.2%	30	.300	1.005
Changeup	16.1%	115	80.9	1,397	37.4%	28.1%	25	.120	.454
Slider	7.1%	51	77.0	665	39.2%	42.9%	15	.000	.063

Josh Fogg'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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Similar players

Nearest 2009 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

David WeathersCIN

ERA: 3.92
FIP: 5.45
SO: 37
WAR: -0.4

Very close

Justin MillerSF

ERA: 3.18
FIP: 4.91
SO: 36
WAR: -0.0

Elmer DessensNYM

ERA: 3.31
FIP: 5.33
SO: 14
WAR: -0.2

Roman ColonKC

ERA: 4.83
FIP: 5.18
SO: 29
WAR: -0.2

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.