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Brandon Webb

Age
30
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 3"
Weight
230 lb
Number
#17
Born
May 9, 1979 in Ashland, KY, United States
MLB debut
April 22, 2003

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dbWAR
21.7
Regular season, 2005–2009 only
IP
4.0
ERA
13.50
FIP
10.85
K/9
4.5
FIP−
251
100 = avg

Brandon Webb was a starting pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2009 he struck out 2 batters over 4.0 innings across 1 appearance, 1 of them starts, going 0-0. His ERA of 13.50 was 212.4% higher than the league average of 4.32. Stripping out defence, his 10.85 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 11.5% of swings (3.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 10.0%. 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, 2009 regular season.

FIP10.85
K/94.5
WHIP2.00
WAR-.2

WAR by season

6.53.1-0.20506070809

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
2009AZ114.0000662213.5010.852.004.54.5312251-0.2
2008AZ3434226.2227020683183653.303.281.207.32.676765.5
2007AZ3434236.11810020979194723.013.241.197.42.767726.2
2006AZ3333235.0168021681178503.103.181.136.81.969706.5
2005AZ3333229.01412022990172593.543.511.266.82.382824.8

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
2009AZ12000001.000.000.000.000.0000.0%50.0%.000-0.5-119-0.0
2008AZ3381100110130.149.162.209.060.2701.2%37.0%.166-11.1-140.0
2007AZ32826030131.082.095.110.027.1431.2%37.8%.093-16.6-62-0.6
2006AZ308611090233.151.171.178.027.2682.3%38.4%.158-12.9-180.0
2005AZ31766020130.097.111.097.000.1881.3%39.5%.096-14.5-58-0.5

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 Brandon Webb's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2007 PostAZPostseason total2213.011011505133.461.239.0
NLDS117.0100410391.291.0011.6
NLCS116.0010740246.001.506.0

Postseason batting

Postseason Brandon Webb's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPS
2007 PostAZPostseason total244010000030.250.250.250.500
NLDS122000000020.000.000.000.000
NLCS122010000010.500.500.5001.000

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.

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 LHB1092012.222.300.333.29020.0%
vs RHB1084210.500.6001.375.7770.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2009.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2009.

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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 .262.

Pitch sequencing

What Brandon Webb 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.

Sinker67.5%5286.61,50232.7%11.1%14——
Curveball14.3%1172.81,28727.3%—0——
Brandon Webb'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.