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Jake Westbrook

St. Louis Cardinals National League Central

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #37

Born: September 29, 1977 in Athens, GA, United States
MLB debut: June 17, 2000

dbWAR: 15.6
IP: 116.2
ERA: 4.63
FIP: 4.62
K/9: 3.4
FIP−: 119

Jake Westbrook was a starting pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2013 he struck out 44 batters over 116.2 innings across 21 appearances, 19 of them starts, going 7-8. His ERA of 4.63 was 19.7% higher than the league average of 3.87 — 14th of 17 on his team, and 370th of 496 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.62 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 14.2% of swings (6.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 8.4%. 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, 2013 regular season.

FIP4.62

K/93.4

WHIP1.56

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 2005–2013; his career began in 2000, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2013	STL	21	19	116.2	7	8	132	60	44	50	4.63	4.62	1.56	3.4	3.9	120	119	0.1
2012	STL	28	28	174.2	13	11	191	77	106	52	3.97	3.80	1.39	5.5	2.7	99	95	2.4
2011	STL	33	33	183.1	12	9	208	95	104	73	4.66	4.25	1.53	5.1	3.6	118	108	1.3
2010	CLE/STL	33	33	202.2	10	11	203	95	128	68	4.22	4.22	1.34	5.7	3.0	103	104	1.9
2008	CLE	5	5	34.2	1	2	33	12	19	7	3.12	4.60	1.15	4.9	1.8	72	106	0.3
2007	CLE	25	25	152.0	6	9	159	73	93	55	4.32	4.33	1.41	5.5	3.3	97	97	2.2
2006	CLE	32	32	211.1	15	10	247	98	109	55	4.17	3.88	1.43	4.6	2.3	92	86	3.9
2005	CLE	34	34	210.2	15	15	218	105	119	56	4.49	3.96	1.30	5.1	2.4	105	92	3.0

Batting Regular season


2013	STL	18	42	6	0	4	1	4	12	.176	.263	.235	.059	.273	9.5%	28.6%	.237	-2.6	45	0.3
2012	STL	27	58	6	0	0	1	4	24	.122	.189	.143	.020	.240	6.9%	41.4%	.161	-7.2	-9	0.0
2011	STL	32	60	5	1	8	0	3	23	.106	.160	.213	.106	.174	5.0%	38.3%	.173	-6.9	-2	0.0
2010	STL/CLE	13	29	3	0	1	0	1	12	.111	.143	.148	.037	.200	3.4%	41.4%	.136	-4.4	-31	-0.1
2007	CLE	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.6	-122	-0.0
2006	CLE	2	5	2	0	1	0	0	1	.500	.500	.750	.250	.667	0.0%	20.0%	.538	+0.8	238	0.2
2005	CLE	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-130	-0.0

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 Jake Westbrook'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
2011 Post	STL	World Series	2	0	2.0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	0.00	1.50	0.0
2007 Post	CLE	Postseason total	3	3	17.2	1	2	25	11	2	4	8	5.60	1.64	4.1
		ALDS	1	1	5.0	0	1	9	6	1	0	1	10.80	1.80	1.8
		ALCS	2	2	12.2	1	1	16	5	1	4	7	3.55	1.58	5.0
2005–2013		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	5	3	19.2	2	2	27	11	2	5	8	5.03	1.63	3.7

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, 2013. 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	243	208	70	3	25	16	.337	.412	.471	.390	6.6%
vs RHB	280	243	62	4	25	28	.255	.338	.342	.310	10.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2013.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2013.

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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 .253.

Pitch sequencing

What Jake Westbrook 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


Sinker	65.1%	1,213	89.4	1,955	39.0%	7.9%	308	.315	.826
Cutter	11.8%	220	84.4	638	40.5%	18.2%	53	.264	.643
Changeup	8.7%	162	80.8	1,293	33.3%	30.1%	31	.355	.916
Splitter	8.0%	149	83.2	1,393	38.9%	27.2%	33	.152	.419
Curveball	5.8%	108	78.6	754	33.3%	26.1%	28	.179	.593

Jake Westbrook'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 2013 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

John LannanPHI

ERA: 5.33
FIP: 4.37
SO: 38
WAR: 0.5

Zack BrittonBAL

ERA: 4.95
FIP: 4.80
SO: 18
WAR: -0.0

Luis MendozaKC

ERA: 5.36
FIP: 4.75
SO: 54
WAR: -0.0

Jonathan PettibonePHI

ERA: 4.04
FIP: 4.18
SO: 66
WAR: 0.8

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.