Players · P · Pitcher · 2006 regular season
Mark Prior
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 5"
- Weight
- 230 lb
- Number
- #22
- Born
- September 7, 1980 in San Diego, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- May 22, 2002
- dbWAR
- 2.6 Regular season, 2005–2006 only
- IP
- 43.2
- ERA
- 7.21
- FIP
- 6.56
- K/9
- 7.8
- FIP−
- 145 100 = avg
Mark Prior was a starting pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2006 he struck out 38 batters over 43.2 innings across 9 appearances, 9 of them starts, going 1-6. His ERA of 7.21 was 59.4% higher than the league average of 4.53 — 16th of 18 on his team, and 441st of 466 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.56 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 14.5% of swings (5.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 13.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.0%. His -0.4 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, 2006 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2006; his career began in 2002, 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 2005–2006; his career began in 2002, 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 | 93 | 78 | 25 | 6 | 12 | 16 | .321 | .419 | .603 | .435 | 17.2% |
| vs RHB | 118 | 93 | 21 | 3 | 16 | 22 | .226 | .371 | .366 | .340 | 18.6% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2006.
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Not in the 2006 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 2006 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.