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Brad Lidge

Washington Nationals National League East

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #54

Born: December 23, 1976 in Sacramento, CA, United States
MLB debut: April 26, 2002

dbWAR: 6.1
IP: 9.1
ERA: 9.64
FIP: 5.88
K/9: 9.6
FIP−: 146

Brad Lidge was a relief pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2012 he struck out 10 batters over 9.1 innings across 11 appearances, going 0-1. His ERA of 9.64 was 140.2% higher than the league average of 4.01. Stripping out defence, his 5.88 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 27.2% of swings (10.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 21.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.6%. 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, 2012 regular season.

FIP5.88

K/99.6

WHIP2.46

WAR-.2

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 2005–2012; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2012	WSH	11	9.1	0	1	2	12	10	10	11	9.64	5.88	2.46	9.6	10.6	240	146	-0.2
2011	PHI	25	19.1	0	2	1	16	3	23	13	1.40	2.82	1.50	10.7	6.1	35	71	0.4
2010	PHI	50	45.2	1	1	27	32	15	52	24	2.96	3.87	1.23	10.2	4.7	72	95	0.4
2009	PHI	67	58.2	0	8	31	72	47	61	34	7.21	5.45	1.81	9.4	5.2	167	126	-0.4
2008	PHI	72	69.1	2	0	41	50	15	92	35	1.95	2.41	1.23	11.9	4.5	45	56	1.9
2007	HOU	66	67.0	5	3	19	54	25	88	30	3.36	3.88	1.25	11.8	4.0	75	87	0.8
2006	HOU	78	75.0	1	5	32	69	44	104	36	5.28	3.79	1.40	12.5	4.3	117	84	1.1
2005	HOU	70	70.2	4	4	42	58	18	103	23	2.29	2.13	1.15	13.1	2.9	53	50	2.1

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

Postseason Brad Lidge's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	W	L	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2011 Post	PHI	NLDS	3	2.0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	0.00	1.50	4.5
2010 Post	PHI	Postseason total	4	4.0	0	0	2	3	0	0	3	5	0.00	1.50	11.3
		NLDS	1	1.0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0.00	1.00	0.0
		NLCS	3	3.0	0	0	1	3	0	0	2	5	0.00	1.67	15.0
2009 Post	PHI	Postseason total	6	5.0	1	1	3	4	3	0	3	5	5.40	1.40	9.0
		NLDS	2	1.1	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	1	0.00	1.50	6.8
		NLCS	3	2.2	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	3	0.00	0.75	10.1
		World Series	1	1.0	0	1	0	3	3	0	0	1	27.00	3.00	9.0
2008 Post	PHI	Postseason total	9	9.1	0	0	7	6	1	0	3	13	0.96	0.96	12.5
		NLDS	3	3.0	0	0	2	3	1	0	1	4	3.00	1.33	12.0
		NLCS	4	4.1	0	0	3	2	0	0	2	6	0.00	0.92	12.5
		World Series	2	2.0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	3	0.00	0.50	13.5
2005 Post	HOU	Postseason total	10	12.2	0	3	3	12	6	2	6	18	4.26	1.42	12.8
		NLDS	3	4.0	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	5	0.00	1.50	11.3
		NLCS	4	5.0	0	1	3	6	4	1	2	7	7.20	1.60	12.6
		World Series	3	3.2	0	2	0	4	2	1	0	6	4.91	1.09	14.7
2005–2012		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	32	33.0	1	4	15	27	10	2	16	42	2.73	1.30	11.5

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.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2012. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	19	11	6	1	8	2	.545	.737	1.273	.756	10.5%
vs RHB	32	28	6	0	3	8	.214	.290	.286	.265	25.0%

Pitch sequencing

What Brad Lidge 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.

Season


Slider	54.8%	114	81.7	470	50.0%	35.7%	24	.250	.625
Four-Seam Fastball	35.6%	74	90.2	1,738	45.9%	8.0%	15	.400	1.438
Intentional Ball	9.6%	20	74.4	1,081	0.0%	—	0	—	—

Brad Lidge'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.