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David Cortes

Age
33
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 11"
Weight
225 lb
Born
October 15, 1973 in Mexicali, Mexico
MLB debut
August 30, 1999

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dbWAR
.5
Regular season, 2005–2006 only
IP
29.1
ERA
4.30
FIP
4.24
K/9
4.3
FIP−
94
100 = avg

David Cortes was a relief pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. In 2006 he struck out 14 batters over 29.1 innings across 30 appearances, going 3-1. His ERA of 4.30 was 5.1% lower than the league average of 4.53 — 8th of 13 on his team, and 214th of 466 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.24 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 13.5% of swings (7.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 4.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 11.3%. 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, 2006 regular season.

FIP4.24
K/94.3
WHIP1.40
WAR.3

WAR by season

0.30.10.00506

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2006; his career began in 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2006COL30029.131035141464.304.241.404.31.895940.3
2005COL50052.2202502436104.104.501.146.21.7961050.3

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2006; his career began in 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2005COL22000000.000.000.000.000.0000.0%0.0%.000-0.5-116-0.0—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2006. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB494312144.279.333.372.3078.2%
vs RHB7570232210.329.351.457.35313.3%

Not in the 2006 data: pitch types, recorded in every park from 2008. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.

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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.