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Dan Wheeler

Cleveland Indians American League Central

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #35

Born: December 10, 1977 in Warwick, RI, United States
MLB debut: September 1, 1999

dbWAR: 4.1
IP: 12.1
ERA: 8.76
FIP: 7.63
K/9: 1.5
FIP−: 190

Dan Wheeler was a relief pitcher for the Cleveland Indians. In 2012 he struck out 2 batters over 12.1 innings across 12 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 8.76 was 118.1% higher than the league average of 4.01. Stripping out defence, his 7.63 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 7.6% of swings (3.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 3.3%. His -0.5 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, 2012 regular season.

FIP7.63

K/91.5

WHIP1.95

WAR-.5

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 2005–2012; his career began in 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2012	CLE	12	12.1	0	0	0	17	12	2	7	8.76	7.63	1.95	1.5	5.1	218	190	-0.5
2011	BOS	47	49.1	2	2	0	47	24	39	8	4.38	3.78	1.11	7.1	1.5	111	96	0.4
2010	TB	64	48.1	2	4	3	36	18	46	16	3.35	4.11	1.08	8.6	3.0	82	101	0.2
2009	TB	69	57.2	4	5	2	41	21	45	9	3.28	4.48	0.87	7.0	1.4	76	104	0.2
2008	TB	70	66.1	5	6	13	44	23	53	22	3.12	4.49	0.99	7.2	3.0	72	104	0.2
2007	HOU/TB	70	74.2	1	9	11	74	44	82	23	5.30	4.00	1.30	9.9	2.8	119	89	0.8
2006	HOU	75	71.1	3	5	9	58	20	68	24	2.52	3.24	1.15	8.6	3.0	56	72	1.4
2005	HOU	71	73.1	2	3	3	53	18	69	19	2.21	3.28	0.98	8.5	2.3	51	76	1.2

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 Dan Wheeler's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2010 Post	TB	ALDS	1	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.00	0.00	18.0
2008 Post	TB	Postseason total	7	8.2	1	9	6	3	4	9	6.23	1.50	9.3
		ALDS	1	1.0	1	1	1	1	0	1	9.00	1.00	9.0
		ALCS	3	5.0	0	5	3	1	3	5	5.40	1.60	9.0
		World Series	3	2.2	0	3	2	1	1	3	6.75	1.50	10.1
2005 Post	HOU	Postseason total	8	9.0	0	8	4	0	4	8	4.00	1.33	8.0
		NLDS	3	4.1	0	4	1	0	3	5	2.08	1.62	10.4
		NLCS	3	2.2	0	2	0	0	0	2	0.00	0.75	6.8
		World Series	2	2.0	0	2	3	0	1	1	13.50	1.50	4.5
2005–2012		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	16	18.2	1	17	10	3	8	19	4.82	1.34	9.2

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, 2012. 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	28	25	13	3	3	0	.520	.571	.960	.646	0.0%
vs RHB	33	27	4	0	4	2	.148	.242	.222	.216	6.1%

Pitch sequencing

What Dan Wheeler 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	45.8%	116	88.3	2,036	41.4%	4.8%	21	.381	1.220
Slider	31.6%	80	83.9	860	35.0%	14.6%	20	.200	.680
Four-Seam Fastball	9.1%	23	87.5	1,610	39.1%	0.0%	5	—	—
Splitter	7.9%	20	82.9	920	15.0%	0.0%	5	—	—
Curveball	5.5%	14	75.7	1,605	21.4%	0.0%	1	—	—

Dan Wheeler'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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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.