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Brad Penny

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 270 lb
Number: #31

Born: May 24, 1978 in Blackwell, OK, United States
MLB debut: April 7, 2000

dbWAR: 14.5
IP: 26.0
ERA: 6.58
FIP: 5.25
K/9: 4.5
FIP−: 140

Brad Penny was a relief pitcher for the Miami Marlins. In 2014 he struck out 13 batters over 26.0 innings across 8 appearances, going 2-1. His ERA of 6.58 was 75.8% higher than the league average of 3.74 — the worst on his team, and 456th of 477 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.25 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 10.9% of swings (4.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 10.8%. His -0.3 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, 2014 regular season.

FIP5.25

K/94.5

WHIP1.81

WAR-.3

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 2005–2014; his career began in 2000, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2014	MIA	8	4	26.0	2	1	34	19	13	13	6.58	5.25	1.81	4.5	4.5	176	140	-0.3
2012	SF	22	0	28.0	0	1	42	19	10	9	6.11	5.31	1.82	3.2	2.9	152	132	-0.3
2011	DET	31	31	181.2	11	11	222	107	74	62	5.30	5.02	1.56	3.7	3.1	134	127	-0.2
2010	STL	9	9	55.2	3	4	63	20	35	9	3.23	3.40	1.29	5.7	1.5	79	83	1.1
2009	BOS/SF	30	30	173.1	11	9	191	94	109	51	4.88	4.46	1.40	5.7	2.6	113	103	1.8
2008	LAD	19	17	94.2	6	9	112	66	51	42	6.27	5.27	1.63	4.8	4.0	145	122	-0.1
2007	LAD	33	33	208.0	16	4	199	70	135	73	3.03	3.63	1.31	5.8	3.2	68	81	4.5
2006	LAD	34	33	189.0	16	9	206	91	148	54	4.33	3.89	1.38	7.0	2.6	96	86	3.6
2005	LAD	29	29	175.1	7	9	185	76	122	41	3.90	3.64	1.29	6.3	2.1	91	85	3.2

Batting Regular season


2014	MIA	4	8	2	0	0	0	3	.333	.333	.500	.167	.667	0.0%	37.5%	.365	+0.3	136	0.2
2012	SF	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.2	-129	-0.0
2011	DET	2	4	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	75.0%	.000	-1.0	-118	-0.1
2010	STL	9	20	3	1	4	0	6	.158	.158	.316	.158	.167	0.0%	30.0%	.206	-1.9	18	0.1
2009	SF/BOS	8	21	2	0	0	0	6	.105	.105	.105	.000	.154	0.0%	28.6%	.095	-4.1	-61	-0.1
2008	LAD	16	32	5	0	2	0	7	.192	.192	.192	.000	.263	0.0%	21.9%	.172	-4.2	-10	0.1
2007	LAD	31	75	16	0	7	1	23	.246	.279	.338	.092	.381	1.3%	30.7%	.279	-3.6	61	0.7
2006	LAD	31	70	12	0	5	0	16	.185	.185	.231	.046	.245	0.0%	22.9%	.182	-9.1	-3	0.2
2005	LAD	26	61	8	0	3	1	17	.160	.192	.220	.060	.242	1.6%	27.9%	.187	-7.1	3	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 Brad Penny's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2011 Post	DET	ALCS	1	1.2	0	7	5	2	2	1	27.00	5.40	5.4
2006 Post	LAD	NLDS	1	1.0	1	2	2	0	2	1	18.00	4.00	9.0
2005–2014		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	2	2.2	1	9	7	2	4	2	23.63	4.88	6.8

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, 2014. 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	47	43	12	1	3	8	.279	.326	.535	.378	17.0%
vs RHB	73	61	22	2	10	5	.361	.458	.525	.440	6.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2014.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2014.

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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 .251.

Pitch sequencing

What Brad Penny 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	41.7%	187	91.1	1,898	42.2%	7.4%	43	.372	1.029
Four-Seam Fastball	30.4%	136	92.2	2,024	39.7%	6.1%	26	.346	1.007
Curveball	16.7%	75	79.5	1,354	49.3%	23.7%	21	.286	.905
Splitter	9.8%	44	85.4	1,297	29.5%	13.0%	13	—	—

Brad Penny'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 2014 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Robbie Ross Jr.TEX

ERA: 6.20
FIP: 4.74
SO: 51
WAR: -0.3

Craig BreslowBOS

ERA: 5.96
FIP: 5.34
SO: 37
WAR: -0.7

Félix DoubrontBOS

ERA: 5.54
FIP: 5.13
SO: 51
WAR: -0.6

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ERA: 5.79
FIP: 5.10
SO: 16
WAR: -0.3

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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.