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Kiko Calero

Age
34
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 1"
Weight
210 lb
Number
#50
Born
January 9, 1975 in Santurce, Puerto Rico
MLB debut
April 2, 2003

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dbWAR
4.1
Regular season, 2005–2009 only
IP
60.0
ERA
1.95
FIP
2.56
K/9
10.3
FIP−
59
100 = avg

Kiko Calero was a relief pitcher for the Florida Marlins. In 2009 he struck out 69 batters over 60.0 innings across 67 appearances, going 2-2. His ERA of 1.95 was 54.9% lower than the league average of 4.32 — the second best on his team, and 14th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 2.56 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 32.1% of swings (12.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 12.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 28.9%. His 1.6 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, 2009 regular season.

FIP2.56
K/910.3
WHIP1.10
WAR1.6

WAR by season

1.60.80.00506070809

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2009FLA67060.0220361369301.952.561.1010.34.545591.6
2008OAK504.200032733.862.061.2913.55.889480.1
2007OAK46040.2151462631215.754.371.656.94.6129980.2
2006OAK70058.0322502267243.412.971.2810.43.775661.3
2005OAK58055.2411452052183.233.581.138.42.975830.8

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2005OAK11000001.000.000.000.000—0.0%100.0%.000-0.3-123-0.0—

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 Kiko Calero's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2006 PostOAKPostseason total403.0100300220.001.676.0
ALDS101.0100000110.001.009.0
ALCS302.0000300110.002.004.5

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.

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2009. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB96751401820.187.347.240.27420.8%
vs RHB1431252211249.176.243.232.22134.3%

Pitch sequencing

What Kiko Calero throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

ShowBatter
SliderFour-seamCurveballChangeupINSinkerUnknownFastball

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Slider45.9%46479.91,47742.9%38.5%116.172.419
Four-Seam Fastball38.4%38888.42,35848.5%20.8%68.206.691
Curveball5.4%5577.01,40340.0%53.8%4——
Changeup5.0%5183.01,78645.1%28.6%7——
Intentional Ball1.6%1674.71,8200.0%—0——
Sinker1.4%1489.12,80157.1%66.7%4——
Unknown1.3%13——30.8%33.3%3——
Kiko Calero'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.