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Edwin Jackson

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #36

Born: September 9, 1983 in Neu-Ulm, Germany
MLB debut: September 9, 2003

dbWAR: 15.6
IP: 67.2
ERA: 9.58
FIP: 7.65
K/9: 6.9
FIP−: 170

Edwin Jackson was a starting pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 2019 he struck out 52 batters over 67.2 innings across 18 appearances, 13 of them starts, going 3-10. His ERA of 9.58 was 112.6% higher than the league average of 4.51 — the worst on his team, and 540th of 545 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 7.65 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 23.7% of swings (11.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.5%. 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, 2019 regular season.

FIP7.65

K/96.9

WHIP2.02

WAR-1.6

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 2005–2019; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2019	DET/TOR	18	13	67.2	3	10	0	105	72	52	32	9.58	7.65	2.02	6.9	4.3	213	170	-1.6
2018	OAK	17	17	92.0	6	3	0	75	34	68	37	3.33	4.65	1.22	6.7	3.6	80	112	0.5
2017	WSH/BAL	16	13	76.0	5	6	0	86	44	60	29	5.21	6.14	1.51	7.1	3.4	120	141	-0.7
2016	SD/MIA	21	13	84.0	5	7	0	92	55	61	41	5.89	5.36	1.58	6.5	4.4	141	128	-0.3
2015	ATL/CHC	47	0	55.2	4	3	1	44	19	40	21	3.07	3.82	1.17	6.5	3.4	78	96	0.4
2014	CHC	28	27	140.2	6	15	0	168	99	123	63	6.33	4.45	1.64	7.9	4.0	169	119	0.3
2013	CHC	31	31	175.1	8	18	0	197	97	135	59	4.98	3.79	1.46	6.9	3.0	129	98	2.4
2012	WSH	31	31	189.2	10	11	0	173	85	168	58	4.03	3.85	1.22	8.0	2.8	100	96	2.6
2011	CWS/STL	32	31	199.2	12	9	0	225	84	148	62	3.79	3.55	1.44	6.7	2.8	96	90	3.2
2010	AZ/CWS	32	32	209.1	10	12	0	214	104	181	78	4.47	3.86	1.39	7.8	3.4	110	95	3.0
2009	DET	33	33	214.0	13	9	0	200	86	161	70	3.62	4.28	1.26	6.8	2.9	84	99	2.6
2008	TB	32	31	183.1	14	11	0	199	90	108	77	4.42	4.88	1.51	5.3	3.8	102	113	0.9
2007	TB	32	31	161.0	5	15	0	195	103	128	88	5.76	4.90	1.76	7.2	4.9	129	109	1.0
2006	TB	23	1	36.1	0	0	0	42	22	27	25	5.45	4.52	1.84	6.7	6.2	120	100	0.2
2005	LAD	7	6	28.2	2	2	0	31	20	13	17	6.28	4.90	1.67	4.1	5.3	146	114	0.1

Batting Regular season


2019	TOR	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	66.7%	.000	-0.8	-118	-0.0
2018	OAK	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-126	-0.0
2017	WSH	12	21	2	0	0	0	0	15	.095	.095	.095	.000	.333	0.0%	71.4%	.083	-4.2	-64	-0.1
2016	SD	14	27	5	0	2	1	3	11	.217	.308	.261	.043	.417	11.1%	40.7%	.264	-1.2	61	0.2
2015	ATL	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-125	-0.0
2014	CHC	25	44	7	0	0	0	0	21	.175	.175	.225	.050	.368	0.0%	47.7%	.177	-4.6	3	0.1
2013	CHC	30	59	4	1	4	0	2	17	.077	.111	.154	.077	.088	3.4%	28.8%	.123	-8.8	-35	-0.1
2012	WSH	30	65	13	0	0	0	3	21	.228	.267	.228	.000	.361	4.6%	32.3%	.227	-4.7	37	0.5
2011	STL/CWS	14	34	8	0	2	0	1	9	.267	.281	.267	.000	.364	2.9%	26.5%	.246	-2.0	50	0.2
2010	AZ	20	43	6	1	3	0	2	22	.158	.200	.237	.079	.333	4.7%	51.2%	.201	-4.2	14	0.1
2009	DET	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	75.0%	.000	-1.1	-125	-0.1
2008	TB	2	5	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.200	.000	.000	.000	20.0%	20.0%	.146	-0.8	-28	-0.0
2007	TB	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.000	1.000	0.0%	50.0%	.450	+0.2	183	0.0
2005	LAD	5	11	2	0	1	0	1	2	.200	.273	.200	.000	.250	9.1%	18.2%	.227	-0.9	30	0.1

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 Edwin Jackson'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
2012 Post	WSH	NLDS	2	1	6.0	0	1	9	5	1	3	6	7.50	2.00	9.0
2011 Post	STL	Postseason total	4	4	17.2	1	1	19	11	4	9	12	5.60	1.58	6.1
		NLDS	1	1	6.0	1	0	5	2	0	1	4	3.00	1.00	6.0
		NLCS	2	2	6.1	0	0	11	6	4	1	5	8.53	1.89	7.1
		World Series	1	1	5.1	0	1	3	3	0	7	3	5.06	1.88	5.1
2008 Post	TB	Postseason total	3	0	4.1	0	0	2	1	1	3	5	2.08	1.15	10.4
		ALCS	2	0	2.1	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	0.00	0.86	15.4
		World Series	1	0	2.0	0	0	2	1	1	1	1	4.50	1.50	4.5
2005–2019		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	9	5	28.0	1	2	30	17	6	15	23	5.46	1.61	7.4

Postseason batting

Postseason Edwin Jackson's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2012 Post	WSH	NLDS	1	1	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2011 Post	STL	Postseason total	3	5	4	1	1	2	.250	.250	.250	.500
		NLDS	1	2	2	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	2	3	2	1	1	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000
2005–2019		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	4	6	5	1	1	2	.200	.200	.200	.400

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, 2019. 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	160	141	46	9	17	21	.326	.406	.638	.433	13.1%
vs RHB	177	159	59	14	15	31	.371	.424	.723	.468	17.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2019.

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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 .252.

Pitch sequencing

What Edwin Jackson 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


Cutter	27.4%	360	91.6	2,338	46.1%	22.5%	98	.418	1.253
Slider	25.2%	331	85.7	2,299	48.9%	38.3%	84	.286	.898
Four-Seam Fastball	23.3%	306	93.5	2,269	37.6%	11.8%	71	.310	1.001
Sinker	13.9%	183	93.7	2,111	30.1%	21.4%	27	.407	1.404
Changeup	7.5%	99	87.0	2,221	35.4%	10.0%	16	.313	1.063
Curveball	2.7%	36	77.9	2,517	33.3%	0.0%	5	—	—

Edwin Jackson'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.