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Mike Gosling

Cleveland Indians American League Central

Age: 29
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #20

Born: September 23, 1980 in Madison, WI, United States
MLB debut: September 9, 2004

dbWAR: -.9
IP: 25.0
ERA: 5.04
FIP: 5.98
K/9: 4.7
FIP−: 138

Mike Gosling was a relief pitcher for the Cleveland Indians. In 2009 he struck out 13 batters over 25.0 innings across 15 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 5.04 was 16.6% higher than the league average of 4.32 — 9th of 18 on his team, and 342nd of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.98 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 15.5% of swings (7.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 11.4%. His -0.4 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.

FIP5.98

K/94.7

WHIP1.64

WAR-.4

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2009	CLE	15	0	25.0	0	0	30	14	13	11	5.04	5.98	1.64	4.7	4.0	117	138	-0.4
2007	CIN	23	0	33.0	2	0	42	18	32	28	4.91	5.91	2.12	8.7	7.6	110	132	-0.3
2006	CIN	1	0	1.1	0	0	1	2	1	1	13.50	15.90	1.50	6.8	6.8	298	351	-0.2
2005	AZ	13	5	32.1	0	3	40	16	14	19	4.45	4.72	1.82	3.9	5.3	104	110	0.1

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

																					Trend
2007	CIN	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	60.0%	.000	-1.4	-124	-0.1
2005	AZ	5	7	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	57.1%	.000	-1.9	-123	-0.1

Platoon splits

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

Season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	42	38	11	0	4	4	.289	.357	.368	.332	9.5%
vs RHB	72	65	19	5	7	9	.292	.361	.585	.405	12.5%

Pitch sequencing

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

ShowBatter

Four-seamSinkerChangeupSliderCurveball

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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	28.2%	123	90.7	2,116	43.1%	8.8%	32	.375	1.226
Sinker	25.9%	113	90.8	2,338	38.9%	9.8%	23	.304	.689
Changeup	17.9%	78	82.6	1,919	46.2%	17.8%	22	.318	1.057
Slider	15.4%	67	79.7	566	41.8%	25.0%	17	.176	.399
Curveball	11.5%	50	72.8	1,466	26.0%	23.1%	9	—	—

Mike Gosling'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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Similar players

Nearest 2009 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Jonathan AlbaladejoNYY

ERA: 5.24
FIP: 5.81
SO: 21
WAR: -0.4

Very close

Eddie GuardadoTEX

ERA: 4.46
FIP: 6.10
SO: 20
WAR: -0.5

Saul RiveraWSH

ERA: 6.10
FIP: 5.71
SO: 21
WAR: -0.4

Dan GieseOAK

ERA: 5.32
FIP: 6.28
SO: 11
WAR: -0.3

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.