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Ryan Jensen

Age
30
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
255 lb
Born
September 17, 1975 in Salt Lake City, UT, United States
MLB debut
May 19, 2001

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dbWAR
.1
Regular season, 2005 only
IP
25.1
ERA
7.11
FIP
4.72
K/9
6.4
FIP−
110
100 = avg

Ryan Jensen was a relief pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2005 he struck out 18 batters over 25.1 innings across 9 appearances, going 3-2. His ERA of 7.11 was 65.6% higher than the league average of 4.29 — the second worst on his team, and 426th of 442 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.72 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 19.2% of swings (8.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.7%. 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, 2005 regular season.

FIP4.72
K/96.4
WHIP1.50
WAR.1

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2005KC9325.132031201877.114.721.506.42.51661100.1—

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2005KC11000001.000.000.000.000—0.0%100.0%.000-0.3-127-0.0—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2005. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB5852143512.269.328.538.36520.7%
vs RHB575217126.327.368.442.35810.5%

Not in the 2005 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.