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Michael Wuertz
- Age
- 33
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Number
- #43
- Born
- December 15, 1978 in Austin, MN, United States
- MLB debut
- April 5, 2004
- dbWAR
- 4.7 Regular season, 2005–2011 only
- IP
- 33.2
- ERA
- 6.68
- FIP
- 5.46
- K/9
- 8.6
- FIP−
- 139 100 = avg
Michael Wuertz was a relief pitcher for the Oakland Athletics. In 2011 he struck out 32 batters over 33.2 innings across 39 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 6.68 was 69.5% higher than the league average of 3.94 — the worst on his team, and 440th of 457 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.46 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 34.4% of swings (13.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 16.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.8%. 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, 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 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | OAK | 39 | 0 | 33.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 25 | 32 | 26 | 6.68 | 5.46 | 1.87 | 8.6 | 7.0 | 170 | 139 | -0.4 | |
| 2010 | OAK | 48 | 0 | 39.2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 35 | 19 | 40 | 21 | 4.31 | 4.62 | 1.41 | 9.1 | 4.8 | 106 | 113 | -0.0 | |
| 2009 | OAK | 74 | 0 | 78.2 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 52 | 23 | 102 | 23 | 2.63 | 2.37 | 0.95 | 11.7 | 2.6 | 61 | 55 | 2.2 | |
| 2008 | CHC | 45 | 0 | 44.2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 44 | 18 | 30 | 20 | 3.63 | 4.30 | 1.43 | 6.0 | 4.0 | 84 | 99 | 0.3 | |
| 2007 | CHC | 73 | 0 | 72.1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 64 | 28 | 79 | 35 | 3.48 | 3.94 | 1.37 | 9.8 | 4.4 | 78 | 88 | 0.9 | |
| 2006 | CHC | 41 | 0 | 40.2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 35 | 12 | 42 | 16 | 2.66 | 3.93 | 1.25 | 9.3 | 3.5 | 59 | 87 | 0.5 | |
| 2005 | CHC | 75 | 0 | 75.2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 60 | 32 | 89 | 40 | 3.81 | 3.28 | 1.32 | 10.6 | 4.8 | 89 | 77 | 1.3 |
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 2004, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 Post | CHC | NLDS | 2 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.00 | 0.60 | 10.8 |
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 | 71 | 58 | 14 | 2 | 13 | 14 | .241 | .380 | .414 | .348 | 19.7% |
| vs RHB | 91 | 74 | 23 | 3 | 13 | 18 | .311 | .420 | .500 | .408 | 19.8% |
Pitch sequencing
What Michael Wuertz 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.
| Slider | 376 | 83.9 | 556 | 44.1% | 39.2% | 96 | .240 | .768 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 231 | 88.6 | 2,109 | 38.5% | 17.5% | 29 | .379 | 1.056 | |
| Unknown | 18 | — | — | 44.4% | 55.6% | 5 | — | — | |
| Intentional Ball | 16 | 80.8 | 1,553 | 0.0% | — | 0 | — | — | |
| Changeup | 11 | 83.2 | 1,381 | 36.4% | 33.3% | 3 | — | — |
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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.