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Ben Weber

Age
36
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 4"
Weight
205 lb
Born
November 17, 1969 in Port Arthur, TX, United States
MLB debut
April 3, 2000

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dbWAR
.1
Regular season, 2005 only
IP
12.1
ERA
8.03
FIP
4.16
K/9
5.8
FIP−
97
100 = avg

Ben Weber was a relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2005 he struck out 8 batters over 12.1 innings across 10 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 8.03 was 87.1% higher than the league average of 4.29. Stripping out defence, his 4.16 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 20.8% of swings (8.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 13.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.1%. 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.

FIP4.16
K/95.8
WHIP2.35
WAR.1

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 2000, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2005CIN10012.10002011898.034.162.355.86.6187970.1—

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 LHB19166031.375.474.500.4355.3%
vs RHB473914067.359.447.462.39914.9%

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.