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John Danks

Chicago White Sox American League Central

Age: 31
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #50

Born: April 15, 1985 in Austin, TX, United States
MLB debut: April 8, 2007

dbWAR: 12.0
IP: 22.1
ERA: 7.25
FIP: 6.10
K/9: 6.4
FIP−: 146

John Danks was a starting pitcher for the Chicago White Sox. In 2016 he struck out 16 batters over 22.1 innings across 4 appearances, 4 of them starts, going 0-4. His ERA of 7.25 was 73.1% higher than the league average of 4.19 — the second worst on his team, and 494th of 512 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.10 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 20.9% of swings (8.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.0%. 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, 2016 regular season.

FIP6.10

K/96.4

WHIP1.75

WAR-.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2016	CWS	4	4	22.1	0	4	28	18	16	11	7.25	6.10	1.75	6.4	4.4	173	146	-0.2
2015	CWS	30	30	177.2	7	15	195	93	124	56	4.71	4.49	1.41	6.3	2.8	119	113	0.8
2014	CWS	32	32	193.2	11	11	205	102	129	74	4.74	4.76	1.44	6.0	3.4	127	127	-0.2
2013	CWS	22	22	138.1	4	14	151	73	89	27	4.75	5.06	1.29	5.8	1.8	123	131	-0.4
2012	CWS	9	9	53.2	3	4	57	34	30	23	5.70	5.01	1.49	5.0	3.9	142	125	0.1
2011	CWS	27	27	170.1	8	12	182	82	135	46	4.33	3.82	1.34	7.1	2.4	110	97	2.2
2010	CWS	32	32	213.0	15	11	189	88	162	70	3.72	3.70	1.22	6.8	3.0	91	91	3.6
2009	CWS	32	32	200.1	13	11	184	84	149	73	3.77	4.59	1.28	6.7	3.3	87	106	1.8
2008	CWS	33	33	195.0	12	9	182	72	159	57	3.32	3.44	1.23	7.3	2.6	77	80	4.4
2007	CWS	26	26	139.0	6	13	160	85	109	54	5.50	5.54	1.54	7.1	3.5	123	124	0.1

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2014	CWS	1	3	1	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.000	.500	0.0%	33.3%	.299	-0.0	88	0.0
2013	CWS	2	4	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	25.0%	.000	-1.0	-122	-0.1
2012	CWS	1	3	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.7	-111	-0.0
2011	CWS	1	3	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.7	-121	-0.0
2010	CWS	1	3	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.8	-120	-0.0
2009	CWS	1	3	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.8	-124	-0.0
2008	CWS	3	7	1	1	2	.167	.286	.167	.000	.250	14.3%	28.6%	.232	-0.6	30	0.0
2007	CWS	1	2	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.6	-124	-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 John Danks'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	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2008 Post	CWS	ALDS	1	1	6.2	1	0	0	7	3	1	3	7	4.05	1.50	9.4

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, 2016. 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	15	13	4	2	1	1	.308	.333	.769	.440	6.7%
vs RHB	85	74	24	3	10	15	.324	.400	.541	.403	17.6%

Pitch sequencing

What John Danks 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	29.7%	115	87.1	2,397	40.9%	6.4%	27	.407	1.440
Changeup	27.4%	106	80.8	2,234	38.7%	44.0%	22	.273	.850
Cutter	17.3%	67	83.9	1,630	40.3%	15.4%	12	—	—
Sinker	15.5%	60	87.5	2,614	43.3%	4.0%	23	.261	.624
Curveball	10.1%	39	74.2	568	33.3%	30.0%	3	—	—

John Danks'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 2016 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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FIP: 6.15
SO: 46
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ERA: 8.02
FIP: 6.20
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ERA: 6.08
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John LambCIN

ERA: 6.43
FIP: 5.46
SO: 58
WAR: -0.2

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.