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Chris Spurling
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 6"
- Weight
- 240 lb
- Number
- #48
- Born
- June 28, 1977 in Dayton, OH, United States
- MLB debut
- April 2, 2003
- dbWAR
- -.2 Regular season, 2005–2007 only
- IP
- 50.0
- ERA
- 4.68
- FIP
- 4.64
- K/9
- 5.0
- FIP−
- 104 100 = avg
Chris Spurling was a relief pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2007 he struck out 28 batters over 50.0 innings across 49 appearances, going 2-1. His ERA of 4.68 was 4.6% higher than the league average of 4.47 — 10th of 14 on his team, and 279th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.64 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 16.0% of swings (7.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.4%. 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, 2007 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2007; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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 | 101 | 89 | 28 | 4 | 10 | 11 | .315 | .386 | .506 | .383 | 10.9% |
| vs RHB | 124 | 119 | 35 | 2 | 4 | 17 | .294 | .323 | .420 | .330 | 13.7% |
Not in the 2007 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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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.