Players · D · Pitcher · 2010 regular season
Brendan Donnelly
- Age
- 39
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 240 lb
- Number
- #53
- Born
- July 4, 1971 in Washington, DC, United States
- MLB debut
- April 9, 2002
- dbWAR
- .9 Regular season, 2005–2010 only
- IP
- 30.2
- ERA
- 5.58
- FIP
- 6.47
- K/9
- 7.6
- FIP−
- 159 100 = avg
Brendan Donnelly was a relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2010 he struck out 26 batters over 30.2 innings across 38 appearances, going 3-1. His ERA of 5.58 was 36.7% higher than the league average of 4.08 — 12th of 17 on his team, and 403rd of 467 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.47 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 23.3% of swings (10.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 17.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.3%. His -0.7 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, 2010 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 2005–2010; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | PIT | 38 | 0 | 30.2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 19 | 26 | 25 | 5.58 | 6.47 | 1.66 | 7.6 | 7.3 | 137 | 159 | -0.7 | |
| 2009 | FLA | 30 | 0 | 25.1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 5 | 25 | 9 | 1.78 | 2.82 | 1.22 | 8.9 | 3.2 | 41 | 65 | 0.6 | |
| 2008 | CLE | 15 | 0 | 13.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 13 | 8 | 10 | 8.56 | 6.06 | 2.20 | 5.3 | 6.6 | 198 | 140 | -0.2 | |
| 2007 | BOS | 27 | 0 | 20.2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 3.05 | 3.09 | 1.16 | 6.5 | 2.2 | 68 | 69 | 0.5 | |
| 2006 | LAA | 62 | 0 | 64.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 28 | 53 | 28 | 3.94 | 4.62 | 1.34 | 7.5 | 3.9 | 87 | 102 | 0.3 | |
| 2005 | LAA | 66 | 0 | 65.1 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 60 | 27 | 53 | 19 | 3.72 | 4.15 | 1.21 | 7.3 | 2.6 | 87 | 97 | 0.4 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2010; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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| 2005 | LAA | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -129 | -0.0 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 Post | LAA | Postseason total | 4 | 0 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2.45 | 1.64 | 12.3 |
| ALDS | 1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 27.00 | 9.00 | 0.0 | ||
| ALCS | 3 | 0 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.00 | 0.90 | 13.5 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 48 | 36 | 14 | 1 | 11 | 5 | .389 | .521 | .528 | .463 | 10.4% |
| vs RHB | 94 | 75 | 12 | 5 | 14 | 21 | .160 | .293 | .387 | .309 | 22.3% |
Pitch sequencing
What Brendan Donnelly 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.
| Splitter | 260 | 87.2 | 809 | 45.0% | 23.1% | 44 | .205 | .686 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 233 | 90.0 | 1,631 | 45.1% | 23.1% | 47 | .191 | .771 | |
| Changeup | 82 | 83.8 | 1,683 | 36.6% | 24.3% | 20 | .400 | 1.129 |
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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.