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Blaine Neal
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 6' 5"
- Weight
- 240 lb
- Born
- April 6, 1978 in Marlton, NJ, United States
- MLB debut
- September 3, 2001
- dbWAR
- -.3 Regular season, 2005 only
- IP
- 22.2
- ERA
- 7.15
- FIP
- 5.93
- K/9
- 4.4
- FIP−
- 138 100 = avg
Blaine Neal was a relief pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. In 2005 he struck out 11 batters over 22.2 innings across 19 appearances, going 1-3. His ERA of 7.15 was 66.6% higher than the league average of 4.29 — the worst on his team, and 428th of 442 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.93 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 16.7% of swings (7.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 9.9%. His -0.2 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.
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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| 2005 | COL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -116 | -0.0 | — |
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 | 43 | 38 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 1 | .447 | .465 | .658 | .476 | 2.3% |
| vs RHB | 68 | 56 | 18 | 2 | 9 | 10 | .321 | .409 | .446 | .372 | 14.7% |
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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Nearest 2005 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.