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John Patterson
- Age
- 29
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 6"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Number
- #22
- Born
- January 30, 1978 in Orange, TX, United States
- MLB debut
- July 20, 2002
- dbWAR
- 4.3 Regular season, 2005–2007 only
- IP
- 31.1
- ERA
- 7.47
- FIP
- 6.46
- K/9
- 4.3
- FIP−
- 144 100 = avg
John Patterson was a starting pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2007 he struck out 15 batters over 31.1 innings across 7 appearances, 7 of them starts, going 1-5. His ERA of 7.47 was 67.0% higher than the league average of 4.47 — the second worst on his team, and 461st of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.46 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 14.0% of swings (5.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 14.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 9.9%. His -0.3 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, 2007 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2007; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2007; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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 | 75 | 58 | 19 | 2 | 13 | 7 | .328 | .444 | .534 | .428 | 9.3% |
| vs RHB | 76 | 68 | 20 | 3 | 8 | 8 | .294 | .368 | .515 | .388 | 10.5% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2007.
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Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2007.
Not in the 2007 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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Nearest 2007 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.