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Michael Gonzalez
- Age
- 35
- B/T
- R/L
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Number
- #51
- Born
- May 23, 1978 in Robstown, TX, United States
- MLB debut
- August 11, 2003
- dbWAR
- 5.0 Regular season, 2005–2013 only
- IP
- 50.0
- ERA
- 4.68
- FIP
- 4.87
- K/9
- 10.8
- FIP−
- 126 100 = avg
Michael Gonzalez was a relief pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2013 he struck out 60 batters over 50.0 innings across 75 appearances, going 0-3. His ERA of 4.68 was 21.1% higher than the league average of 3.87 — 15th of 18 on his team, and 372nd of 496 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.87 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 28.6% of swings (12.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 25.5%. 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, 2013 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 2005–2013; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | MIL | 75 | 0 | 50.0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 58 | 26 | 60 | 25 | 4.68 | 4.87 | 1.66 | 10.8 | 4.5 | 121 | 126 | -0.3 | |
| 2012 | WSH | 47 | 0 | 35.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 12 | 39 | 16 | 3.03 | 2.98 | 1.32 | 9.8 | 4.0 | 75 | 74 | 0.6 | |
| 2011 | BAL/TEX | 56 | 0 | 53.1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 51 | 26 | 51 | 21 | 4.39 | 4.11 | 1.35 | 8.6 | 3.5 | 111 | 104 | 0.2 | |
| 2010 | BAL | 29 | 0 | 24.2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 11 | 31 | 14 | 4.01 | 2.79 | 1.30 | 11.3 | 5.1 | 98 | 69 | 0.5 | |
| 2009 | ATL | 80 | 0 | 74.1 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 56 | 20 | 90 | 33 | 2.42 | 3.51 | 1.20 | 10.9 | 4.0 | 56 | 81 | 1.1 | |
| 2008 | ATL | 36 | 0 | 33.2 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 26 | 16 | 44 | 14 | 4.28 | 4.17 | 1.19 | 11.8 | 3.7 | 99 | 96 | 0.3 | |
| 2007 | ATL | 18 | 0 | 17.0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 1.59 | 3.12 | 1.35 | 6.9 | 4.2 | 36 | 70 | 0.3 | |
| 2006 | PIT | 54 | 0 | 54.0 | 3 | 4 | 24 | 42 | 13 | 64 | 31 | 2.17 | 2.85 | 1.35 | 10.7 | 5.2 | 48 | 63 | 1.3 | |
| 2005 | PIT | 51 | 0 | 50.0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 35 | 15 | 58 | 31 | 2.70 | 3.14 | 1.32 | 10.4 | 5.6 | 63 | 73 | 1.0 |
Batting 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 2003, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 Post | WSH | NLDS | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9.00 | 1.00 | 9.0 |
| 2011 Post | TEX | Postseason total | 8 | 0 | 4.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4.15 | 0.92 | 8.3 |
| ALDS | 2 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 1.50 | 27.0 | ||
| ALCS | 3 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1.50 | 0.0 | ||
| World Series | 3 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6.00 | 0.67 | 6.0 | ||
| 2005–2013 | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 9 | 0 | 5.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5.06 | 0.94 | 8.4 |
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 | 118 | 106 | 29 | 4 | 8 | 31 | .274 | .336 | .443 | .348 | 26.3% |
| vs RHB | 117 | 99 | 29 | 6 | 17 | 29 | .293 | .393 | .535 | .403 | 24.8% |
Pitch sequencing
What Michael Gonzalez 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.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 405 | 91.4 | 2,283 | 47.7% | 24.3% | 74 | .257 | .760 | |
| Slider | 351 | 81.2 | 489 | 46.4% | 34.7% | 98 | .276 | .851 | |
| Sinker | 100 | 89.1 | 2,209 | 40.0% | 22.0% | 21 | .381 | 1.051 | |
| Changeup | 78 | 82.4 | 1,975 | 35.9% | 29.0% | 13 | — | — |
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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.