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Scott Kazmir

San Francisco Giants National League West

Age: 37
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 185 lb
Number: #19

Born: January 24, 1984 in Houston, TX, United States
MLB debut: August 23, 2004

dbWAR: 21.2
IP: 11.1
ERA: 6.35
FIP: 6.43
K/9: 7.9
FIP−: 151

Scott Kazmir was a starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. In 2021 he struck out 10 batters over 11.1 innings across 5 appearances, 4 of them starts, going 0-1. His ERA of 6.35 was 48.9% higher than the league average of 4.27. Stripping out defence, his 6.43 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 20.6% of swings (10.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.2%. 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, 2021 regular season.

FIP6.43

K/97.9

WHIP1.85

WAR-.2

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 2005–2021; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2021	SF	5	4	11.1	0	1	15	8	10	6	6.35	6.43	1.85	7.9	4.8	149	151	-0.2
2016	LAD	26	26	136.1	10	6	133	69	134	52	4.56	4.48	1.36	8.8	3.4	109	107	1.0
2015	OAK/HOU	31	31	183.0	7	11	162	63	155	59	3.10	3.98	1.21	7.6	2.9	78	100	2.0
2014	OAK	32	32	190.1	15	9	171	75	164	50	3.55	3.35	1.16	7.8	2.4	95	90	3.1
2013	CLE	29	29	158.0	10	9	162	71	162	47	4.04	3.51	1.32	9.2	2.7	105	91	2.4
2011	LAA	1	1	1.2	0	0	5	5	0	2	27.00	18.03	4.20	0.0	10.8	685	457	-0.3
2010	LAA	28	28	150.0	9	15	158	99	93	79	5.94	5.83	1.58	5.6	4.7	146	143	-1.5
2009	TB/LAA	26	26	147.1	10	9	149	80	117	60	4.89	4.26	1.42	7.1	3.7	113	99	1.8
2008	TB	27	27	152.1	12	8	123	59	166	70	3.49	4.37	1.27	9.8	4.1	81	101	1.7
2007	TB	34	34	206.2	13	9	196	80	239	89	3.48	3.45	1.38	10.4	3.9	78	77	4.6
2006	TB	24	24	144.2	10	8	132	52	163	52	3.24	3.36	1.27	10.1	3.2	71	74	3.6
2005	TB	32	32	186.0	10	9	172	78	174	100	3.77	3.76	1.46	8.4	4.8	88	88	3.3

Batting Regular season


2021	SF	3	4	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.1	-121	-0.0
2016	LAD	25	50	5	2	1	24	.116	.136	.116	.000	.263	2.0%	48.0%	.116	-8.2	-41	-0.2
2015	HOU/OAK	2	4	1	1	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.000	.500	0.0%	50.0%	.220	-0.3	33	0.0
2014	OAK	2	4	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	25.0%	.000	-1.0	-121	-0.0
2013	CLE	2	4	1	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.000	.333	0.0%	25.0%	.223	-0.3	35	-0.0
2010	LAA	3	7	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	42.9%	.000	-1.8	-130	-0.1
2008	TB	1	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-129	-0.0
2007	TB	1	2	1	1	0	0	.500	.500	.500	.000	.500	0.0%	0.0%	.450	+0.2	183	0.0
2006	TB	2	3	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	66.7%	.000	-0.8	-124	-0.0
2005	TB	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-126	-0.0

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 Scott Kazmir'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
2015 Post	HOU	ALDS	1	1	5.1	0	0	5	3	1	1	4	5.06	1.13	6.8
2009 Post	LAA	Postseason total	3	2	10.2	0	1	11	9	1	8	4	7.59	1.78	3.4
		ALDS	1	1	6.0	0	0	5	5	1	3	1	7.50	1.33	1.5
		ALCS	2	1	4.2	0	1	6	4	0	5	3	7.71	2.36	5.8
2008 Post	TB	Postseason total	5	5	25.2	1	1	26	12	4	18	22	4.21	1.71	7.7
		ALDS	1	1	5.1	1	0	8	2	0	2	4	3.38	1.88	6.8
		ALCS	2	2	10.1	0	0	8	5	3	6	9	4.35	1.35	7.8
		World Series	2	2	10.0	0	1	10	5	1	10	9	4.50	2.00	8.1
2005–2021		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	9	8	41.2	1	2	42	24	6	27	30	5.18	1.66	6.5

Postseason batting

Postseason Scott Kazmir'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	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2008 Post	TB	World Series	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	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.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2021. 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	18	15	6	2	2	2	.400	.471	.867	.547	11.1%
vs RHB	37	33	9	1	4	8	.273	.351	.424	.331	21.6%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2021.

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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 .243.

Pitch sequencing

What Scott Kazmir 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


Four-Seam Fastball	54.1%	112	92.4	2,155	50.0%	10.9%	23	.304	.929
Changeup	30.9%	64	80.5	1,481	40.6%	34.5%	15	.400	1.104
Slider	14.5%	30	87.1	1,945	40.0%	27.8%	10	—	—

Scott Kazmir'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.