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Brandon League
- Age
- 31
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Number
- #43
- Born
- March 16, 1983 in Sacramento, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- September 21, 2004
- dbWAR
- 4.0 Regular season, 2005–2014 only
- IP
- 63.0
- ERA
- 2.57
- FIP
- 3.40
- K/9
- 5.4
- FIP−
- 91 100 = avg
Brandon League was a relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2014 he struck out 38 batters over 63.0 innings across 63 appearances, going 2-3. His ERA of 2.57 was 31.3% lower than the league average of 3.74 — the third best on his team, and 82nd of 477 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.40 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 19.1% of swings (8.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.9%. 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, 2014 regular season.
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 2005–2014; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | LAD | 63 | 0 | 63.0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 65 | 18 | 38 | 27 | 2.57 | 3.40 | 1.46 | 5.4 | 3.9 | 69 | 91 | 0.6 | |
| 2013 | LAD | 58 | 0 | 54.1 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 69 | 32 | 28 | 15 | 5.30 | 4.93 | 1.55 | 4.6 | 2.5 | 137 | 127 | -0.4 | |
| 2012 | SEA/LAD | 74 | 0 | 72.0 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 65 | 25 | 54 | 33 | 3.13 | 3.19 | 1.36 | 6.8 | 4.1 | 78 | 79 | 1.0 | |
| 2011 | SEA | 65 | 0 | 61.1 | 1 | 5 | 37 | 56 | 19 | 45 | 10 | 2.79 | 2.78 | 1.08 | 6.6 | 1.5 | 71 | 71 | 1.2 | |
| 2010 | SEA | 70 | 0 | 79.0 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 67 | 30 | 56 | 27 | 3.42 | 3.91 | 1.19 | 6.4 | 3.1 | 84 | 96 | 0.5 | |
| 2009 | TOR | 67 | 0 | 74.2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 72 | 38 | 76 | 21 | 4.58 | 3.58 | 1.25 | 9.2 | 2.5 | 106 | 83 | 1.0 | |
| 2008 | TOR | 31 | 0 | 33.0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 8 | 23 | 15 | 2.18 | 4.16 | 1.30 | 6.3 | 4.1 | 50 | 96 | 0.2 | |
| 2007 | TOR | 14 | 0 | 11.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 6.17 | 4.95 | 2.23 | 5.4 | 5.4 | 138 | 111 | 0.0 | |
| 2006 | TOR | 33 | 0 | 42.2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 34 | 12 | 29 | 9 | 2.53 | 3.55 | 1.01 | 6.1 | 1.9 | 56 | 78 | 0.7 | |
| 2005 | TOR | 20 | 0 | 35.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 26 | 17 | 20 | 6.56 | 6.83 | 1.74 | 4.3 | 5.0 | 153 | 159 | -0.8 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2014; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 Post | LAD | NLDS | 4 | 0 | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.0 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 96 | 80 | 25 | 0 | 11 | 10 | .313 | .404 | .350 | .337 | 10.4% |
| vs RHB | 177 | 154 | 40 | 0 | 16 | 28 | .260 | .333 | .312 | .293 | 15.8% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2014.
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Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2014.
Pitch sequencing
What Brandon League 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.
| Sinker | 719 | 93.7 | 2,085 | 39.6% | 11.4% | 187 | .316 | .761 | |
| Splitter | 171 | 85.6 | 1,171 | 35.1% | 51.4% | 38 | .105 | .252 | |
| Slider | 31 | 86.8 | 254 | 38.7% | 45.5% | 7 | — | — | |
| Intentional Ball | 20 | 73.9 | 1,490 | 0.0% | — | 0 | — | — | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 14 | 94.8 | 970 | 21.4% | 20.0% | 3 | — | — |
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Nearest 2014 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.