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Hung-Chih Kuo

Los Angeles Dodgers National League West

Age: 30
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 240 lb
Number: #56

Born: July 23, 1981 in Tainan City, Taiwan
MLB debut: September 2, 2005

dbWAR: 6.5
IP: 27.0
ERA: 9.00
FIP: 5.06
K/9: 12.0
FIP−: 128

Hung-Chih Kuo was a relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2011 he struck out 36 batters over 27.0 innings across 40 appearances, going 1-2. His ERA of 9.00 was 128.3% higher than the league average of 3.94 — the worst on his team, and the second worst among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.06 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 26.9% of swings (11.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 18.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 28.3%. 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, 2011 regular season.

FIP5.06

K/912.0

WHIP1.74

WAR-.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2011	LAD	40	0	27.0	1	2	0	24	27	36	23	9.00	5.06	1.74	12.0	7.7	228	128	-0.2
2010	LAD	56	0	60.0	3	2	12	29	8	73	18	1.20	1.81	0.78	10.9	2.7	29	44	1.9
2009	LAD	35	0	30.0	2	0	0	21	10	32	13	3.00	3.33	1.13	9.6	3.9	69	77	0.5
2008	LAD	42	3	80.0	5	3	1	60	19	96	21	2.14	2.28	1.01	10.8	2.4	49	53	2.3
2007	LAD	8	6	30.1	1	4	0	35	25	27	14	7.42	4.23	1.62	8.0	4.2	166	95	0.4
2006	LAD	28	5	59.2	1	5	0	54	28	71	33	4.22	3.13	1.46	10.7	5.0	93	69	1.3
2005	LAD	9	0	5.1	0	1	0	5	4	10	5	6.75	4.52	1.88	16.9	8.4	157	105	0.0

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2010	LAD	3	3	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.000	—	33.3%	33.3%	.360	+0.1	126	0.1
2008	LAD	13	14	3	0	0	0	4	.250	.250	.333	.083	.375	0.0%	28.6%	.257	-0.9	50	0.1
2007	LAD	4	8	1	1	1	0	3	.167	.167	.667	.500	.000	0.0%	37.5%	.338	+0.0	100	0.1
2006	LAD	6	11	1	0	0	0	6	.125	.125	.250	.125	.500	0.0%	54.5%	.157	-1.7	-20	-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

Postseason Hung-Chih Kuo's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2009 Post	LAD	Postseason total	5	0	5.0	1	0	4	1	1	0	8	1.80	0.80	14.4
		NLDS	1	0	1.0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	0.00	2.00	18.0
		NLCS	4	0	4.0	1	0	2	1	1	0	6	2.25	0.50	13.5
2008 Post	LAD	NLCS	3	0	3.0	0	0	2	1	0	0	3	3.00	0.67	9.0
2006 Post	LAD	NLDS	1	1	4.1	0	1	4	2	0	2	4	4.15	1.38	8.3
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	9	1	12.1	1	1	10	4	1	2	15	2.92	0.97	10.9

Postseason batting

Postseason Hung-Chih Kuo's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2008 Post	LAD	NLCS	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—
2006 Post	LAD	NLDS	1	2	2	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	2	3	2	1	.000	.000	.000	.000

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.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2011. 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	55	45	13	2	7	17	.289	.396	.489	.396	30.9%
vs RHB	72	54	11	2	16	19	.204	.394	.370	.350	26.4%

Pitch sequencing

What Hung-Chih Kuo 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


Four-Seam Fastball	71.2%	380	92.5	2,039	50.3%	26.6%	74	.230	.840
Slider	20.6%	110	83.7	492	40.0%	32.6%	19	.263	.649
Changeup	4.3%	23	83.5	1,612	21.7%	16.7%	5	—	—

Hung-Chih Kuo'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.