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Jon Garland

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #20

Born: September 27, 1979 in Valencia, CA, United States
MLB debut: July 4, 2000

dbWAR: 13.8
IP: 68.0
ERA: 5.82
FIP: 4.93
K/9: 4.2
FIP−: 128

Jon Garland was a starting pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. In 2013 he struck out 32 batters over 68.0 innings across 12 appearances, 12 of them starts, going 4-6. His ERA of 5.82 was 50.6% higher than the league average of 3.87 — 15th of 20 on his team, and 450th of 496 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.93 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 14.6% of swings (6.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 10.6%. His 0.0 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, 2013 regular season.

FIP4.93

K/94.2

WHIP1.59

WAR.0

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 2005–2013; his career began in 2000, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2013	COL	12	12	68.0	4	6	85	44	32	23	5.82	4.93	1.59	4.2	3.0	151	128	0.0
2011	LAD	9	9	54.0	1	5	55	26	28	20	4.33	4.66	1.39	4.7	3.3	110	118	0.1
2010	SD	33	33	200.0	14	12	176	77	136	87	3.46	4.41	1.31	6.1	3.9	85	108	1.4
2009	AZ/LAD	33	33	204.0	11	13	225	91	109	61	4.01	4.48	1.40	4.8	2.7	93	104	2.3
2008	LAA	32	32	196.2	14	8	237	107	90	59	4.90	4.76	1.51	4.1	2.7	113	110	1.4
2007	CWS	32	32	208.1	10	13	219	98	98	57	4.23	4.36	1.32	4.2	2.5	95	98	2.8
2006	CWS	33	32	211.1	18	7	247	106	112	41	4.51	4.35	1.36	4.8	1.7	100	96	2.9
2005	CWS	32	32	221.0	18	10	212	86	115	47	3.50	4.24	1.17	4.7	1.9	82	99	2.8

Batting Regular season


2013	COL	12	21	3	0	0	0	5	.158	.158	.211	.053	.214	0.0%	23.8%	.162	-2.5	-8	-0.0
2011	LAD	8	16	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.083	.000	.000	.000	6.3%	18.8%	.059	-3.2	-81	-0.1
2010	SD	34	69	12	0	2	6	18	.214	.286	.232	.018	.308	8.7%	26.1%	.246	-4.4	47	0.5
2009	AZ/LAD	31	75	6	0	1	1	34	.086	.111	.086	.000	.167	1.3%	45.3%	.095	-14.5	-58	-0.5
2008	LAA	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.000	.000	33.3%	0.0%	.244	-0.2	39	0.0
2007	CWS	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	0.0%	0.0%	—	—	—	0.0
2006	CWS	2	7	1	1	2	0	3	.200	.200	.800	.600	.000	0.0%	42.9%	.401	+0.4	141	0.1
2005	CWS	1	2	1	0	1	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.000	1.000	0.0%	50.0%	.447	+0.2	177	0.0

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 Jon Garland's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2005 Post	CWS	Postseason total	2	2	16.0	1	11	4	2	3	11	2.25	0.88	6.2
		ALCS	1	1	9.0	1	4	2	1	1	7	2.00	0.56	7.0
		World Series	1	1	7.0	0	7	2	1	2	4	2.57	1.29	5.1

Postseason batting

Postseason Jon Garland's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2005 Post	CWS	World Series	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

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, 2013. 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	159	140	41	5	14	17	.293	.355	.514	.377	10.7%
vs RHB	144	130	44	4	9	15	.338	.387	.523	.398	10.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2013.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2013.

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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 .253.

Pitch sequencing

What Jon Garland 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.

Season


Sinker	34.8%	379	87.2	1,823	40.6%	16.7%	92	.337	.947
Four-Seam Fastball	25.0%	272	87.2	1,548	43.4%	7.8%	72	.361	.924
Slider	15.9%	173	82.1	801	31.2%	10.8%	44	.159	.565
Curveball	14.2%	155	75.6	826	40.6%	18.3%	38	.342	.991
Changeup	8.7%	95	79.7	1,404	37.9%	26.5%	25	.320	.890
Intentional Ball	1.1%	12	78.3	1,382	0.0%	—	0	—	—

Jon Garland'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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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.