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Bob Keppel

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #44

Born: June 11, 1982 in St. Louis, MO, United States
MLB debut: May 25, 2006

dbWAR: .2
IP: 54.0
ERA: 4.83
FIP: 4.32
K/9: 5.3
FIP−: 100

Bob Keppel was a relief pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. In 2009 he struck out 32 batters over 54.0 innings across 37 appearances, going 1-1. His ERA of 4.83 was 11.8% higher than the league average of 4.32 — 9th of 15 on his team, and 315th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.32 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 15.4% of swings (6.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.2%. 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.

FIP4.32

K/95.3

WHIP1.56

WAR.4

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.


2009	MIN	37	0	54.0	1	1	63	29	32	21	4.83	4.32	1.56	5.3	3.5	112	100	0.4
2007	COL	4	0	4.0	0	0	6	5	1	3	11.25	8.24	2.25	2.3	6.8	252	184	-0.1
2006	KC	8	6	34.1	0	4	45	21	20	15	5.50	5.65	1.75	5.2	3.9	122	125	-0.0

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

																					Trend
2009	MIN	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	—	—	100.0%	0.0%	.719	+0.3	353	0.0
2006	KC	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.6	-120	-0.0

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	117	104	33	1	10	11	.317	.379	.462	.373	9.4%
vs RHB	125	108	30	3	11	21	.278	.360	.426	.346	16.8%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2009.

Pitch sequencing

What Bob Keppel 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


Sinker	66.2%	603	93.1	2,384	39.1%	13.8%	143	.308	.867
Slider	19.1%	174	87.4	764	41.4%	22.5%	41	.268	.659
Curveball	9.1%	83	80.1	667	42.2%	6.1%	20	.350	.850
Changeup	2.3%	21	85.0	1,999	19.0%	0.0%	3	—	—
Four-Seam Fastball	2.1%	19	93.1	2,435	52.6%	30.0%	4	—	—

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

Cla MeredithSD

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FIP: 4.09
SO: 37
WAR: 0.4

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ERA: 5.51
FIP: 4.26
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Jared BurtonCIN

ERA: 4.40
FIP: 4.04
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Chris SampsonHOU

ERA: 5.04
FIP: 3.51
SO: 33
WAR: 0.8

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.