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Scot Shields
- Age
- 35
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 180 lb
- Number
- #62
- Born
- July 22, 1975 in Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States
- MLB debut
- May 26, 2001
- dbWAR
- 4.8 Regular season, 2005–2010 only
- IP
- 46.0
- ERA
- 5.28
- FIP
- 5.43
- K/9
- 7.6
- FIP−
- 133 100 = avg
Scot Shields was a relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2010 he struck out 39 batters over 46.0 innings across 43 appearances, going 0-3. His ERA of 5.28 was 29.5% higher than the league average of 4.08 — the second worst on his team, and 382nd of 467 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.43 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 17.7% of swings (6.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 15.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.9%. 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, 2010 regular season.
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 2005–2010; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | LAA | 43 | 1 | 46.0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 45 | 27 | 39 | 34 | 5.28 | 5.43 | 1.72 | 7.6 | 6.7 | 129 | 133 | -0.5 | |
| 2009 | LAA | 20 | 0 | 17.2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 6.62 | 5.02 | 1.75 | 6.1 | 7.6 | 153 | 116 | -0.0 | |
| 2008 | LAA | 64 | 0 | 63.1 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 56 | 19 | 64 | 29 | 2.70 | 3.81 | 1.34 | 9.1 | 4.1 | 62 | 88 | 0.7 | |
| 2007 | LAA | 71 | 0 | 77.0 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 62 | 33 | 77 | 33 | 3.86 | 3.86 | 1.23 | 9.0 | 3.9 | 86 | 86 | 1.0 | |
| 2006 | LAA | 74 | 0 | 87.2 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 70 | 28 | 84 | 24 | 2.87 | 3.27 | 1.07 | 8.6 | 2.5 | 63 | 72 | 1.7 | |
| 2005 | LAA | 78 | 0 | 91.2 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 66 | 28 | 98 | 37 | 2.75 | 2.87 | 1.12 | 9.6 | 3.6 | 64 | 67 | 2.0 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2010; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 Post | LAA | ALDS | 4 | 0 | 5.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4.76 | 1.24 | 11.1 |
| 2007 Post | LAA | ALDS | 2 | 0 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2.25 | 1.00 | 9.0 |
| 2005 Post | LAA | Postseason total | 8 | 0 | 11.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 1.64 | 1.09 | 8.2 |
| ALDS | 4 | 0 | 5.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 3.60 | 1.40 | 9.0 | ||
| ALCS | 4 | 0 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.00 | 0.83 | 7.5 | ||
| 2005–2010 | Postseason total · 3 Octobers | 14 | 0 | 20.2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 21 | 2.61 | 1.11 | 9.1 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 108 | 87 | 15 | 3 | 16 | 22 | .172 | .302 | .310 | .284 | 20.4% |
| vs RHB | 109 | 90 | 30 | 3 | 17 | 17 | .333 | .440 | .467 | .410 | 15.6% |
Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2010.
Pitch sequencing
What Scot Shields 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.
| Sinker | 667 | 91.2 | 2,458 | 44.8% | 15.5% | 135 | .267 | .830 | |
| Curveball | 138 | 79.2 | 1,686 | 37.0% | 22.8% | 33 | .152 | .374 | |
| Slider | 41 | 82.8 | 721 | 29.3% | 33.3% | 10 | — | — | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 12 | 91.0 | 1,999 | 50.0% | 0.0% | 0 | — | — |
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Nearest 2010 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.