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Gary Glover

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #38

Born: December 3, 1976 in Cleveland, OH, United States
MLB debut: September 30, 1999

dbWAR: .6
IP: 54.1
ERA: 5.30
FIP: 4.77
K/9: 6.1
FIP−: 110

Gary Glover was a relief pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2008 he struck out 37 batters over 54.1 innings across 47 appearances, going 2-3. His ERA of 5.30 was 22.6% higher than the league average of 4.32 — the worst on his team, and 369th of 482 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.77 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 18.9% of swings (8.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.0%. 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, 2008 regular season.

FIP4.77

K/96.1

WHIP1.58

WAR.0

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2008; his career began in 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2008	TB/DET	47	0	54.1	2	3	0	64	32	37	22	5.30	4.77	1.58	6.1	3.6	123	110	0.0
2007	TB	67	0	77.1	6	5	2	87	42	51	27	4.89	5.02	1.47	5.9	3.1	109	112	-0.1
2005	MIL	15	11	64.2	5	4	0	74	40	58	20	5.57	4.26	1.45	8.1	2.8	130	99	0.7

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2008; his career began in 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

																					Trend
2005	MIL	12	26	2	0	1	0	2	9	.100	.217	.100	.000	.182	7.7%	34.6%	.171	-3.4	-9	0.0	—

Platoon splits

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

Season

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	102	92	28	2	8	16	.304	.366	.446	.349	15.7%
vs RHB	144	129	36	5	14	21	.279	.354	.481	.365	14.6%

Pitch sequencing

What Gary Glover 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


Four-Seam Fastball	53.9%	521	93.2	2,644	44.7%	16.0%	124	.306	.905
Slider	22.2%	215	86.7	879	43.3%	28.7%	47	.234	.612
Sinker	7.2%	70	92.5	2,817	58.6%	16.7%	13	—	—
Changeup	5.5%	53	85.1	2,234	47.2%	29.2%	10	—	—
Curveball	5.0%	48	77.8	1,156	27.1%	4.3%	17	.353	.742
Unknown	3.8%	37	—	—	32.4%	15.0%	10	—	—
Intentional Ball	2.1%	20	76.0	1,905	0.0%	—	0	—	—

Gary Glover'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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Nearest 2008 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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FIP: 5.07
SO: 39
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FIP: 5.17
SO: 20
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FIP: 4.56
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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.