Players · F · Pitcher · 2005 regular season
John Foster
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Born
- May 17, 1978 in Stockton, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- April 24, 2002
- dbWAR
- .3 Regular season, 2005 only
- IP
- 34.2
- ERA
- 4.15
- FIP
- 4.12
- K/9
- 8.3
- FIP−
- 96 100 = avg
John Foster was a relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2005 he struck out 32 batters over 34.2 innings across 62 appearances, going 4-2. His ERA of 4.15 was 3.2% lower than the league average of 4.29 — 7th of 15 on his team, and 212th of 442 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.12 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 22.0% of swings (8.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 12.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.3%. 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, 2005 regular season.
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | ATL | 62 | 0 | 34.2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 16 | 32 | 19 | 4.15 | 4.12 | 1.33 | 8.3 | 4.9 | 97 | 96 | 0.3 | — |
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 | ATL | NLDS | 2 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 54.00 | 12.00 | 27.0 |
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 | 87 | 73 | 16 | 2 | 13 | 24 | .219 | .345 | .370 | .328 | 27.6% |
| vs RHB | 63 | 54 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 8 | .204 | .295 | .278 | .269 | 12.7% |
Not in the 2005 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 2005 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.