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Geoff Geary

Age
33
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
180 lb
Number
#56
Born
August 26, 1976 in Buffalo, NY, United States
MLB debut
August 27, 2003

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dbWAR
2.6
Regular season, 2005–2009 only
IP
20.0
ERA
8.10
FIP
6.15
K/9
5.4
FIP−
142
100 = avg

Geoff Geary was a relief pitcher for the Houston Astros. In 2009 he struck out 12 batters over 20.0 innings across 16 appearances, going 1-3. His ERA of 8.10 was 87.4% higher than the league average of 4.32 — the worst on his team, and 473rd of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.15 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 20.0% of swings (9.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.4%. His -0.3 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, 2009 regular season.

FIP6.15
K/95.4
WHIP2.00
WAR-.3

WAR by season

1.60.6-0.30506070809

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2009HOU16020.0130301812108.106.152.005.44.5187142-0.3
2008HOU55064.0230451845282.533.741.146.33.959870.8
2007PHI57067.1320723338254.415.171.445.13.399116-0.1
2006PHI81091.17111033060202.963.541.355.92.065781.6
2005PHI40058.0210542442213.723.831.296.53.387890.7

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2008HOU11000000.000.000.000.000.0000.0%0.0%.000-0.3-126-0.0
2007PHI44000003.000.000.000.000.0000.0%75.0%.000-1.1-126-0.1
2006PHI56101013.200.333.400.200.50016.7%50.0%.330-0.0940.1
2005PHI66100004.167.167.167.000.5000.0%66.7%.149-0.9-23-0.0

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2009. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB373211353.344.432.719.4848.1%
vs RHB615319159.358.424.509.41614.8%

Pitch sequencing

What Geoff Geary throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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SliderFour-seamSinkerChangeup

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Slider37.5%13280.095840.2%18.5%36.333.980
Four-Seam Fastball36.4%12889.31,96839.1%24.1%33.3641.007
Sinker13.6%4889.12,23343.8%15.0%9——
Changeup10.8%3882.41,55747.4%17.6%7——
Geoff Geary'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.