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Lee Gardner

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #48

Born: January 16, 1975 in Hartland, MI, United States
MLB debut: May 24, 2002

dbWAR: 1.2
IP: 6.2
ERA: 10.80
FIP: 7.63
K/9: 5.4
FIP−: 177

Lee Gardner was a relief pitcher for the Florida Marlins. In 2008 he struck out 4 batters over 6.2 innings across 7 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 10.80 was 149.8% higher than the league average of 4.32. Stripping out defence, his 7.63 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 9.9% of swings (4.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 10.5%. His -0.2 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, 2008 regular season.

FIP7.63

K/95.4

WHIP2.70

WAR-.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2008; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2008	FLA	7	6.2	0	0	0	14	8	4	4	10.80	7.63	2.70	5.4	5.4	250	177	-0.2
2007	FLA	62	74.1	3	4	2	72	16	52	18	1.94	3.04	1.21	6.3	2.2	43	68	1.6
2005	TB	5	7.1	0	0	0	12	4	4	2	4.91	6.29	1.91	4.9	2.5	114	147	-0.1

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2008; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

																					Trend
2008	FLA	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-129	-0.0
2007	FLA	3	4	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	75.0%	.000	-1.1	-125	-0.1

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2008. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	21	17	7	1	3	2	.412	.500	.765	.541	9.5%
vs RHB	17	16	7	1	1	2	.438	.471	.750	.527	11.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2008.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2008.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .263.

Pitch sequencing

What Lee Gardner 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.

Season


Sinker	43.0%	65	86.7	2,068	40.0%	16.7%	14	—	—
Cutter	26.5%	40	85.0	1,253	45.0%	4.3%	9	—	—
Changeup	13.9%	21	82.4	1,535	38.1%	0.0%	4	—	—
Curveball	9.9%	15	71.4	1,655	46.7%	20.0%	3	—	—

Lee Gardner'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.