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John Parrish

Age
33
B/T
L/L
Height
5' 11"
Weight
200 lb
Number
#36
Born
November 26, 1977 in Lancaster, PA, United States
MLB debut
July 24, 2000

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dbWAR
.4
Regular season, 2005–2010 only
IP
6.0
ERA
3.00
FIP
8.58
K/9
6.0
FIP−
210
100 = avg

John Parrish was a relief pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2010 he struck out 4 batters over 6.0 innings across 9 appearances, going 1-1. His ERA of 3.00 was 26.5% lower than the league average of 4.08. Stripping out defence, his 8.58 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 13.5% of swings (6.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 19.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.4%. 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, 2010 regular season.

FIP8.58
K/96.0
WHIP1.50
WAR-.3

WAR by season

0.40.0-0.305070810

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2010; his career began in 2000, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2010KC906.011042453.008.581.506.07.574210-0.3
2008TOR13642.1110471921154.044.741.464.53.2931100.2
2007BAL/SEA53052.0220633341375.714.411.927.16.4128990.4
2005BAL14017.110019625173.123.832.0813.08.873890.2

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2010. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB12103122.300.417.600.44616.7%
vs RHB14111132.091.286.364.30514.3%

Pitch sequencing

What John Parrish 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.

Slider49.6%5780.476649.1%24.1%12——
Four-Seam Fastball43.5%5089.11,89046.0%0.0%8——
John Parrish'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.