Players · B · Pitcher · 2015 regular season
Grant Balfour
- Age
- 38
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Number
- #50
- Born
- December 30, 1977 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- MLB debut
- July 22, 2001
- dbWAR
- 6.0 Regular season, 2007–2015 only
- IP
- 4.1
- ERA
- 6.23
- FIP
- 9.60
- K/9
- 0.0
- FIP−
- 242 100 = avg
Grant Balfour was a relief pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2015 he struck out 0 batters over 4.1 innings across 6 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 6.23 was 57.3% higher than the league average of 3.96. Stripping out defence, his 9.60 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 18.2% of swings (6.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 19.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 0.0%. 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, 2015 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 2007–2015; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | TB | 6 | 0 | 4.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6.23 | 9.60 | 1.62 | 0.0 | 8.3 | 157 | 242 | -0.3 | |
| 2014 | TB | 65 | 0 | 62.1 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 49 | 34 | 57 | 41 | 4.91 | 3.95 | 1.44 | 8.2 | 5.9 | 131 | 106 | 0.2 | |
| 2013 | OAK | 65 | 0 | 62.2 | 1 | 3 | 38 | 48 | 18 | 72 | 27 | 2.59 | 3.49 | 1.20 | 10.3 | 3.9 | 67 | 90 | 0.6 | |
| 2012 | OAK | 75 | 0 | 74.2 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 41 | 21 | 72 | 28 | 2.53 | 3.03 | 0.92 | 8.7 | 3.4 | 63 | 75 | 1.2 | |
| 2011 | OAK | 62 | 0 | 62.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 44 | 17 | 59 | 20 | 2.47 | 3.77 | 1.03 | 8.6 | 2.9 | 63 | 96 | 0.5 | |
| 2010 | TB | 57 | 0 | 55.1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 43 | 14 | 56 | 17 | 2.28 | 2.68 | 1.08 | 9.1 | 2.8 | 56 | 66 | 1.2 | |
| 2009 | TB | 73 | 0 | 67.1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 59 | 36 | 69 | 33 | 4.81 | 3.77 | 1.37 | 9.2 | 4.4 | 111 | 87 | 0.8 | |
| 2008 | TB | 51 | 0 | 58.1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 28 | 10 | 82 | 24 | 1.54 | 2.22 | 0.89 | 12.7 | 3.7 | 36 | 51 | 1.7 | |
| 2007 | TB/MIL | 25 | 0 | 24.2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 21 | 30 | 20 | 7.66 | 4.42 | 2.03 | 10.9 | 7.3 | 171 | 99 | 0.1 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2007–2015; his career began in 2001, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 Post | OAK | ALDS | 3 | 0 | 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.00 | 0.33 | 9.0 |
| 2012 Post | OAK | ALDS | 2 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5.40 | 2.40 | 10.8 |
| 2010 Post | TB | ALDS | 3 | 0 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 0.55 | 2.5 |
| 2008 Post | TB | Postseason total | 10 | 0 | 8.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 6.23 | 2.19 | 7.3 |
| ALDS | 3 | 0 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.00 | 0.90 | 10.8 | ||
| ALCS | 4 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 19.29 | 3.86 | 3.9 | ||
| World Series | 3 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3.00 | 2.33 | 6.0 | ||
| 2007–2015 | Postseason total · 4 Octobers | 18 | 0 | 17.0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 3.71 | 1.53 | 6.9 |
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 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .400 | .600 | .600 | .502 | 0.0% |
| vs RHB | 11 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .100 | .182 | .400 | .254 | 0.0% |
Pitch sequencing
What Grant Balfour 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.
| Slider | 37 | 84.8 | 1,379 | 29.7% | 23.1% | 4 | — | — | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 31 | 89.5 | 2,401 | 32.3% | 14.3% | 8 | — | — | |
| Sinker | 14 | 89.1 | 2,372 | 28.6% | 0.0% | 1 | — | — |
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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.