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Rich Harden
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Number
- #40
- Born
- November 30, 1981 in Victoria, BC, Canada
- MLB debut
- July 21, 2003
- dbWAR
- 8.9 Regular season, 2005–2011 only
- IP
- 82.2
- ERA
- 5.12
- FIP
- 4.69
- K/9
- 9.9
- FIP−
- 119 100 = avg
Rich Harden was a starting pitcher for the Oakland Athletics. In 2011 he struck out 91 batters over 82.2 innings across 15 appearances, 15 of them starts, going 4-4. His ERA of 5.12 was 29.8% higher than the league average of 3.94 — the second worst on his team, and 384th of 457 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.69 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 30.2% of swings (13.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 25.1%. 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.
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 2005–2011; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | OAK | 15 | 15 | 82.2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 87 | 47 | 91 | 31 | 5.12 | 4.69 | 1.43 | 9.9 | 3.4 | 130 | 119 | 0.2 | |
| 2010 | TEX | 20 | 18 | 92.0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 91 | 57 | 75 | 62 | 5.58 | 6.31 | 1.66 | 7.3 | 6.1 | 137 | 155 | -1.3 | |
| 2009 | CHC | 26 | 26 | 141.0 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 122 | 64 | 171 | 67 | 4.09 | 4.35 | 1.34 | 10.9 | 4.3 | 95 | 101 | 1.8 | |
| 2008 | OAK/CHC | 25 | 25 | 148.0 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 96 | 34 | 181 | 61 | 2.07 | 2.95 | 1.06 | 11.0 | 3.7 | 48 | 68 | 3.9 | |
| 2007 | OAK | 7 | 4 | 25.2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 7 | 27 | 11 | 2.45 | 3.94 | 1.13 | 9.5 | 3.9 | 55 | 88 | 0.4 | |
| 2006 | OAK | 9 | 9 | 46.2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 22 | 49 | 26 | 4.24 | 4.18 | 1.22 | 9.5 | 5.0 | 94 | 92 | 0.7 | |
| 2005 | OAK | 22 | 19 | 128.0 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 93 | 36 | 121 | 43 | 2.53 | 2.90 | 1.06 | 8.5 | 3.0 | 59 | 67 | 3.5 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2011; his career began in 2003, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 Post | CHC | NLDS | 1 | 1 | 4.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6.23 | 1.85 | 8.3 |
| 2006 Post | OAK | ALCS | 1 | 1 | 5.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4.76 | 1.76 | 6.4 |
| 2005–2011 | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 2 | 2 | 10.0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 5.40 | 1.80 | 7.2 |
Postseason batting
| Season | Team | Round | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 Post | CHC | NLDS | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 166 | 151 | 35 | 5 | 12 | 42 | .232 | .283 | .417 | .309 | 25.3% |
| vs RHB | 197 | 175 | 52 | 12 | 19 | 49 | .297 | .372 | .549 | .406 | 24.9% |
Pitch sequencing
What Rich Harden 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.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 871 | 91.8 | 2,272 | 44.9% | 21.5% | 173 | .283 | .835 | |
| Slider | 543 | 83.8 | 461 | 49.4% | 42.7% | 138 | .217 | .713 | |
| Changeup | 60 | 85.2 | 1,553 | 43.3% | 22.2% | 16 | .438 | 1.313 |
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Nearest 2011 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.