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Joe Kennedy
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- R/L
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 250 lb
- Born
- May 24, 1979 in La Mesa, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- June 6, 2001
- dbWAR
- 1.4 Regular season, 2005–2007 only
- IP
- 110.2
- ERA
- 4.80
- FIP
- 5.11
- K/9
- 4.1
- FIP−
- 114 100 = avg
Joe Kennedy was a relief pitcher for the Oakland Athletics. In 2007 he struck out 51 batters over 110.2 innings across 39 appearances, going 4-9. His ERA of 4.80 was 7.3% higher than the league average of 4.47 — 10th of 15 on his team, and 300th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.11 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 14.5% of swings (6.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 10.2%. His 0.0 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 — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2007; 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 — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2007; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 Post | OAK | ALCS | 4 | 0 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.00 | 1.09 | 4.9 |
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 | 124 | 98 | 20 | 0 | 16 | 15 | .204 | .341 | .224 | .283 | 12.1% |
| vs RHB | 377 | 324 | 99 | 9 | 39 | 36 | .306 | .379 | .460 | .372 | 9.5% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2007.
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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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Nearest 2007 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.