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Brad Thompson

Kansas City Royals American League Central

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #48

Born: January 31, 1982 in Las Vegas, NV, United States
MLB debut: May 8, 2005

dbWAR: .4
IP: 19.2
ERA: 6.41
FIP: 5.47
K/9: 4.6
FIP−: 134

Brad Thompson was a relief pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2010 he struck out 10 batters over 19.2 innings across 16 appearances, going 0-4. His ERA of 6.41 was 57.1% higher than the league average of 4.08. Stripping out defence, his 5.47 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 12.2% of swings (5.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 4.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 11.2%. 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, 2010 regular season.

FIP5.47

K/94.6

WHIP1.47

WAR-.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2010	KC	16	0	19.2	0	4	0	25	14	10	4	6.41	5.47	1.47	4.6	1.8	157	134	-0.2
2009	STL	32	8	80.0	2	6	0	85	43	34	23	4.84	4.67	1.35	3.8	2.6	112	108	0.2
2008	STL	26	6	64.2	6	3	0	72	37	32	19	5.15	4.17	1.41	4.5	2.6	119	96	0.6
2007	STL	44	17	129.1	8	6	0	157	68	53	40	4.73	5.96	1.52	3.7	2.8	106	133	-1.1
2006	STL	43	1	56.2	1	2	0	58	21	32	20	3.34	4.26	1.38	5.1	3.2	74	94	0.5
2005	STL	40	0	55.0	4	0	1	46	18	29	15	2.95	4.18	1.11	4.7	2.5	69	97	0.4

Batting Regular season

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


2009	STL	9	14	1	0	0	0	7	.083	.083	.083	.000	.200	0.0%	50.0%	.075	-2.9	-77	-0.1
2008	STL	10	17	3	2	1	2	6	.250	.357	.250	.000	.500	11.8%	35.3%	.297	-0.5	76	0.2
2007	STL	17	31	4	0	0	0	11	.167	.167	.167	.000	.308	0.0%	35.5%	.150	-4.8	-26	-0.0
2006	STL	2	2	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.000	1.000	0.0%	50.0%	.449	+0.2	178	0.0
2005	STL	7	7	1	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.000	.250	0.0%	28.6%	.149	-1.0	-24	-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 Brad Thompson's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2006 Post	STL	Postseason total	4	2.0	1	3	2	1	1	3	9.00	2.00	13.5
		NLDS	1	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0.00	1.50	13.5
		NLCS	2	0.2	1	3	2	1	0	1	27.00	4.50	13.5
		World Series	1	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.00	13.5
2005 Post	STL	Postseason total	4	2.1	0	5	2	1	0	1	7.71	2.14	3.9
		NLDS	2	1.1	0	3	2	1	0	1	13.50	2.25	6.8
		NLCS	2	1.0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0.00	2.00	0.0
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	8	4.1	1	8	4	2	1	4	8.31	2.08	8.3

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, 2010. 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	38	34	13	3	3	4	.382	.447	.735	.505	10.5%
vs RHB	51	48	12	1	1	6	.250	.260	.396	.286	11.8%

Pitch sequencing

What Brad Thompson 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	69.6%	222	88.2	2,467	43.2%	7.6%	65	.308	.908
Changeup	14.1%	45	82.1	2,088	44.4%	29.2%	7	—	—
Slider	9.7%	31	78.9	378	38.7%	14.3%	8	—	—
Curveball	5.0%	16	77.6	732	43.8%	25.0%	2	—	—

Brad Thompson'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.