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Josh Beckett

Los Angeles Dodgers National League West

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #19

Born: May 15, 1980 in Spring, TX, United States
MLB debut: September 4, 2001

dbWAR: 26.5
IP: 115.2
ERA: 2.88
FIP: 4.33
K/9: 8.3
FIP−: 116

Josh Beckett was a starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2014 he struck out 107 batters over 115.2 innings across 20 appearances, 20 of them starts, going 6-6. His ERA of 2.88 was 23.0% lower than the league average of 3.74 — 7th of 15 on his team, and 130th of 477 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.33 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 25.4% of swings (11.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 22.5%. His 0.4 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, 2014 regular season.

FIP4.33

K/98.3

WHIP1.17

WAR.4

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 2005–2014; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2014	LAD	20	20	115.2	6	6	96	37	107	39	2.88	4.33	1.17	8.3	3.0	77	116	0.4
2013	LAD	8	8	43.1	0	5	50	25	41	15	5.19	4.66	1.50	8.5	3.1	134	121	0.0
2012	BOS/LAD	28	28	170.1	7	14	174	88	132	52	4.65	4.15	1.33	7.0	2.7	116	103	1.9
2011	BOS	30	30	193.0	13	7	146	62	175	52	2.89	3.57	1.03	8.2	2.4	73	91	3.3
2010	BOS	21	21	127.2	6	6	151	82	116	45	5.78	4.54	1.54	8.2	3.2	142	111	0.8
2009	BOS	32	32	212.1	17	6	198	91	199	55	3.86	3.63	1.19	8.4	2.3	89	84	4.3
2008	BOS	27	27	174.1	12	10	173	78	172	34	4.03	3.24	1.19	8.9	1.8	93	75	4.3
2007	BOS	30	30	200.2	20	7	189	73	194	40	3.27	3.08	1.14	8.7	1.8	73	69	5.7
2006	BOS	33	33	204.2	16	11	191	114	158	74	5.01	5.12	1.29	6.9	3.3	111	113	1.1
2005	FLA	29	29	178.2	15	8	153	67	166	58	3.38	3.27	1.18	8.4	2.9	79	76	4.0

Batting Regular season


2014	LAD	20	43	7	0	2	1	14	.179	.200	.256	.077	.280	2.3%	32.6%	.204	-3.6	23	0.3
2013	LAD	6	12	1	0	0	1	3	.125	.222	.125	.000	.200	8.3%	25.0%	.178	-1.3	2	0.0
2012	LAD/BOS	9	22	1	0	0	0	12	.048	.048	.048	.000	.111	0.0%	54.5%	.042	-4.8	-94	-0.2
2011	BOS	2	5	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	20.0%	.000	-1.2	-115	-0.1
2009	BOS	2	5	1	1	1	0	3	.200	.200	.800	.600	.000	0.0%	60.0%	.412	+0.3	151	0.1
2008	BOS	2	7	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	42.9%	.000	-1.9	-125	-0.1
2007	BOS	3	11	2	0	1	0	1	.182	.182	.273	.091	.200	0.0%	9.1%	.199	-1.3	7	0.0
2006	BOS	2	7	3	1	3	0	2	.429	.429	.857	.429	.500	0.0%	28.6%	.543	+1.2	236	0.2
2005	FLA	27	71	9	1	6	7	17	.153	.239	.254	.102	.190	9.9%	23.9%	.229	-5.9	32	0.4

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 Josh Beckett's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2009 Post	BOS	ALDS	1	1	6.2	0	1	5	4	0	1	3	5.40	0.90	4.0
2008 Post	BOS	Postseason total	3	3	14.1	1	0	22	14	7	6	14	8.79	1.95	8.8
		ALDS	1	1	5.0	0	0	9	4	2	4	6	7.20	2.60	10.8
		ALCS	2	2	9.1	1	0	13	10	5	2	8	9.64	1.61	7.7
2007 Post	BOS	Postseason total	4	4	30.0	4	0	19	4	1	2	35	1.20	0.70	10.5
		ALDS	1	1	9.0	1	0	4	0	0	0	8	0.00	0.44	8.0
		ALCS	2	2	14.0	2	0	9	3	1	1	18	1.93	0.71	11.6
		World Series	1	1	7.0	1	0	6	1	0	1	9	1.29	1.00	11.6
2005–2014		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	8	8	51.0	5	1	46	22	8	9	52	3.88	1.08	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, 2014. 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	247	222	56	13	23	58	.252	.321	.500	.362	23.5%
vs RHB	228	202	40	4	16	49	.198	.271	.307	.264	21.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2014.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2014.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .251.

Pitch sequencing

What Josh Beckett throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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CurveballFour-seamChangeupSinkerCutter

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Curveball	30.6%	585	73.1	1,685	44.6%	29.4%	133	.158	.470
Four-Seam Fastball	27.3%	522	91.6	1,874	45.2%	16.8%	119	.269	.857
Changeup	15.9%	304	85.5	1,624	46.7%	32.7%	63	.270	.726
Sinker	13.5%	258	91.8	2,225	47.3%	19.6%	55	.273	.912
Cutter	12.2%	232	89.3	1,243	46.6%	31.3%	56	.196	.621

Josh Beckett'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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Similar players

Nearest 2014 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Bud NorrisBAL

ERA: 3.65
FIP: 4.22
SO: 139
WAR: 0.8

Very close

Jered WeaverLAA

ERA: 3.59
FIP: 4.19
SO: 169
WAR: 1.2

Very close

Jason HammelCHC

ERA: 3.47
FIP: 3.92
SO: 158
WAR: 1.5

R.A. DickeyTOR

ERA: 3.71
FIP: 4.32
SO: 173
WAR: 1.0

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.