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Dave Bush

Age
34
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 2"
Weight
205 lb
Number
#31
Born
November 9, 1979 in Pittsburgh, PA, United States
MLB debut
July 2, 2004

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dbWAR
6.4
Regular season, 2005–2013 only
IP
3.0
ERA
15.00
FIP
20.71
K/9
3.0
FIP−
536
100 = avg

Dave Bush was a relief pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2013 he struck out 1 batter over 3.0 innings across 1 appearance, going 0-0. His ERA of 15.00 was 288.0% higher than the league average of 3.87. Stripping out defence, his 20.71 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 4.3% of swings (2.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 6.7%. His -0.6 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, 2013 regular season.

FIP20.71
K/93.0
WHIP2.00
WAR-.6

WAR by season

3.71.5-0.60506070809101113

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2013; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2013TOR103.0000551115.0020.712.003.03.0388536-0.6
2011TEX17337.101047242395.794.851.505.52.2147123-0.0
2010MIL3231174.1813019888107654.545.131.515.53.4111126-0.2
2009MIL2221114.15901318189376.385.071.477.02.91481170.3
2008MIL3129185.0910016386109484.184.931.145.32.3971140.8
2007MIL3331186.112100217106134445.124.571.406.52.11141021.9
2006MIL3432210.012110201103166384.413.981.147.11.698883.7
2005TOR2524136.151101426875294.494.751.255.01.91051110.9

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2013; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2010MIL33627020423.132.193.151.019.2336.5%37.1%.168-7.8-90.0
2009MIL17404000416.118.211.118.000.22210.0%40.0%.171-5.3-110.0
2008MIL29635000121.088.103.105.018.1391.6%33.3%.097-12.2-62-0.3
2007MIL29627020011.127.143.164.036.1590.0%17.7%.140-10.2-33-0.1
2006MIL317211090025.177.190.226.048.2970.0%34.7%.186-9.1-10.2

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 Dave Bush's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2008 PostMILNLDS115.1100510031.690.945.1

Postseason batting

Postseason Dave Bush's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPS
2008 PostMILNLDS121000000000.000.000.000.000

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.

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2013. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB772201.286.2861.143.60714.3%
vs RHB873210.429.5001.286.7310.0%

Pitch sequencing

What Dave Bush 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.

Sinker43.1%2286.52,03136.4%0.0%7——
Curveball27.5%1468.71,50850.0%20.0%2——
Cutter23.5%1281.366141.7%0.0%4——
Dave Bush'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.