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Players · C · Pitcher · 2007 regular season

Carmen Cali

Age
29
B/T
L/L
Height
5' 8"
Weight
220 lb
Number
#56
Born
November 2, 1978 in Cleveland, OH, United States
MLB debut
September 8, 2004

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dbWAR
-.6
Regular season, 2005–2007 only
IP
21.0
ERA
4.71
FIP
5.72
K/9
6.0
FIP−
128
100 = avg

Carmen Cali was a relief pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. In 2007 he struck out 14 batters over 21.0 innings across 24 appearances, going 0-1. His ERA of 4.71 was 5.4% higher than the league average of 4.47 — 10th of 16 on his team, and 283rd of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.72 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 19.0% of swings (7.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 15.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.9%. 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, 2007 regular season.

FIP5.72
K/96.0
WHIP1.81
WAR-.2

WAR by season

0.0-0.2-0.40507

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2007; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2007MIN24021.0010221114164.715.721.816.06.9105128-0.2
2005STL606.00001075610.5010.852.677.59.0245253-0.4

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2007. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB534712269.255.340.404.33617.0%
vs RHB4836100105.278.458.389.38110.4%

Not in the 2007 data: pitch types, recorded in every park from 2008. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.

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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.