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Kelly Wunsch

Age
33
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 4"
Weight
215 lb
Born
July 12, 1972 in Houston, TX, United States
MLB debut
April 3, 2000

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dbWAR
.1
Regular season, 2005 only
IP
23.2
ERA
4.56
FIP
4.29
K/9
8.4
FIP−
100
100 = avg

Kelly Wunsch was a relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2005 he struck out 22 batters over 23.2 innings across 46 appearances, going 1-1. His ERA of 4.56 was 6.3% higher than the league average of 4.29 — 9th of 15 on his team, and 266th of 442 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.29 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 26.1% of swings (10.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 13.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.0%. 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.

FIP4.29
K/98.4
WHIP1.44
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
2005LAD46023.2110201222144.564.291.448.45.31061000.1—

Batting 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
2005LAD11000001.000.000.000.000—0.0%100.0%.000-0.3-129-0.0—

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 LHB73621211018.194.315.274.27524.7%
vs RHB32268144.308.419.500.39912.5%

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.