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Chris Young

Kansas City Royals American League Central

Age: 38
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 10"
Weight: 255 lb
Number: #32

Born: May 25, 1979 in Dallas, TX, United States
MLB debut: August 24, 2004

dbWAR: 7.8
IP: 30.0
ERA: 7.50
FIP: 6.22
K/9: 6.6
FIP−: 143

Chris Young was a relief pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2017 he struck out 22 batters over 30.0 innings across 14 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 7.50 was 72.1% higher than the league average of 4.36 — the worst on his team, and 510th of 527 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.22 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 25.6% of swings (12.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.9%. 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, 2017 regular season.

FIP6.22

K/96.6

WHIP2.03

WAR-.4

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 2005–2017; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2017	KC	14	2	30.0	0	0	0	47	25	22	14	7.50	6.22	2.03	6.6	4.2	172	143	-0.4
2016	KC	34	13	88.2	3	9	1	104	61	94	43	6.19	6.62	1.66	9.5	4.4	148	158	-1.7
2015	KC	34	18	123.1	11	6	0	91	42	83	43	3.06	4.52	1.09	6.1	3.1	77	114	0.3
2014	SEA	30	29	165.0	12	9	0	143	67	108	60	3.65	5.02	1.23	5.9	3.3	98	134	-0.9
2012	NYM	20	20	115.0	4	9	0	119	53	80	36	4.15	4.50	1.35	6.3	2.8	103	112	0.6
2011	NYM	4	4	24.0	1	0	0	12	5	22	11	1.88	4.32	0.96	8.3	4.1	48	110	0.2
2010	SD	4	4	20.0	2	0	0	10	2	15	11	0.90	3.88	1.05	6.8	5.0	22	95	0.3
2009	SD	14	14	76.0	4	6	0	70	44	50	40	5.21	5.49	1.45	5.9	4.7	121	127	-0.3
2008	SD	18	18	102.1	7	6	0	84	45	93	48	3.96	4.40	1.29	8.2	4.2	92	102	1.0
2007	SD	30	30	173.0	9	8	0	118	60	167	72	3.12	3.43	1.10	8.7	3.7	70	77	3.7
2006	SD	31	31	179.1	11	5	0	134	69	164	69	3.46	4.60	1.13	8.2	3.5	76	102	1.8
2005	TEX	31	31	164.2	12	7	0	162	78	137	45	4.26	3.80	1.26	7.5	2.5	99	89	2.9

Batting Regular season


2016	KC	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-112	-0.0
2015	KC	2	4	2	0	3	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.000	.667	0.0%	25.0%	.441	+0.4	186	0.1
2014	SEA	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.2	-128	-0.0
2012	NYM	19	36	4	0	2	1	11	.129	.156	.194	.065	.200	2.8%	30.6%	.158	-4.6	-11	0.0
2011	NYM	4	11	3	0	2	0	4	.333	.333	.333	.000	.600	0.0%	36.4%	.298	-0.2	87	0.1
2010	SD	4	6	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.167	.000	.000	.000	16.7%	66.7%	.120	-1.0	-43	-0.0
2009	SD	13	26	6	0	2	2	7	.261	.320	.261	.000	.375	7.7%	26.9%	.274	-1.2	65	0.2
2008	SD	17	36	3	1	2	1	11	.107	.133	.250	.143	.118	2.8%	30.6%	.166	-4.9	-15	-0.0
2007	SD	29	58	6	0	2	5	15	.130	.231	.152	.022	.194	8.6%	25.9%	.195	-6.8	5	0.2
2006	SD	27	62	7	0	4	0	26	.130	.130	.204	.074	.250	0.0%	41.9%	.143	-10.1	-31	-0.0
2005	TEX	2	5	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	60.0%	.000	-1.4	-123	-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 Chris Young's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2015 Post	KC	Postseason total	4	2	15.2	1	8	5	2	6	18	2.87	0.89	10.3
		ALDS	1	0	4.0	0	3	1	1	2	7	2.25	1.25	15.8
		ALCS	1	1	4.2	0	3	2	0	2	4	3.86	1.07	7.7
		World Series	2	1	7.0	1	2	2	1	2	7	2.57	0.57	9.0
2006 Post	SD	NLDS	1	1	6.2	1	4	0	0	2	9	0.00	0.90	12.1
2005–2017		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	5	3	22.1	2	12	5	2	8	27	2.01	0.90	10.9

Postseason batting

Postseason Chris Young's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2015 Post	KC	World Series	1	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2006 Post	SD	NLDS	1	3	3	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005–2017		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	2	4	4	3	.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, 2017. 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	70	60	23	4	10	8	.383	.471	.633	.463	11.4%
vs RHB	78	73	24	3	4	14	.329	.372	.534	.388	17.9%

Pitch sequencing

What Chris Young 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


Slider	56.5%	303	82.0	2,275	41.9%	27.1%	98	.296	.802
Four-Seam Fastball	42.7%	229	86.9	2,349	45.0%	21.4%	36	.500	1.480

Chris Young'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 2017 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Ricardo PintoPHI

ERA: 7.89
FIP: 6.36
SO: 25
WAR: -0.5

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ERA: 6.80
FIP: 5.90
SO: 65
WAR: -0.9

Chad BellDET

ERA: 6.93
FIP: 5.47
SO: 57
WAR: -0.3

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ERA: 7.63
FIP: 5.93
SO: 21
WAR: -0.3

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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.