Players · H · Pitcher · 2007 regular season
Josh Hancock
- Age
- 29
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 220 lb
- Born
- April 11, 1978 in Cleveland, MS, United States
- MLB debut
- September 10, 2002
- dbWAR
- .8 Regular season, 2005–2007 only
- IP
- 12.2
- ERA
- 3.55
- FIP
- 5.06
- K/9
- 6.4
- FIP−
- 113 100 = avg
Josh Hancock was a relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2007 he struck out 9 batters over 12.2 innings across 8 appearances, going 0-1. His ERA of 3.55 was 20.6% lower than the league average of 4.47. Stripping out defence, his 5.06 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 19.1% of swings (9.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.1%. 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 2002, 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 2002, 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 | STL | Postseason total | 3 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 27.00 | 5.00 | 9.0 |
| NLDS | 1 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0.00 | 1.80 | 5.4 | ||
| NLCS | 2 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 162.00 | 21.00 | 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 | 20 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | .389 | .421 | .778 | .509 | 10.0% |
| vs RHB | 36 | 31 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 7 | .226 | .314 | .258 | .274 | 19.4% |
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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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.