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Darrell Rasner

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #27

Born: January 13, 1981 in Carson City, NV, United States
MLB debut: September 6, 2005

dbWAR: 1.1
IP: 113.1
ERA: 5.40
FIP: 4.72
K/9: 5.3
FIP−: 109

Darrell Rasner was a starting pitcher for the New York Yankees. In 2008 he struck out 67 batters over 113.1 innings across 24 appearances, 20 of them starts, going 5-10. His ERA of 5.40 was 24.9% higher than the league average of 4.32 — 16th of 20 on his team, and 377th of 482 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.72 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 12.8% of swings (5.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.1%. His 0.7 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, 2008 regular season.

FIP4.72

K/95.3

WHIP1.54

WAR.7

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.


2008	NYY	24	20	113.1	5	10	135	68	67	39	5.40	4.72	1.54	5.3	3.1	125	109	0.7
2007	NYY	6	6	24.2	1	3	29	11	11	8	4.01	5.67	1.50	4.0	2.9	90	127	-0.0
2006	NYY	6	3	20.1	3	1	18	10	11	5	4.43	4.23	1.13	4.9	2.2	98	93	0.2
2005	WSH	5	1	7.1	0	1	5	3	4	2	3.68	3.57	0.95	4.9	2.5	86	83	0.1

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

																					Trend
2008	NYY	2	3	0	0	0	0	2	1	.000	.667	.000	.000	—	66.7%	33.3%	.487	+0.4	203	0.1	—

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2008. 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	296	256	72	6	32	43	.281	.364	.422	.354	14.5%
vs RHB	217	204	63	8	7	24	.309	.338	.495	.364	11.1%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2008.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .263.

Pitch sequencing

What Darrell Rasner throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

ShowBatter

Four-seamCutterSinkerCurveballChangeupUnknown

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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	27.7%	543	88.7	2,077	45.5%	12.7%	119	.311	.875
Cutter	26.5%	519	86.2	1,265	47.0%	13.6%	148	.264	.779
Sinker	15.9%	312	88.0	2,507	40.4%	7.1%	55	.345	.926
Curveball	13.6%	266	73.7	1,424	38.7%	10.8%	54	.259	.569
Changeup	8.3%	162	83.7	1,548	38.3%	15.7%	47	.319	.780
Unknown	7.6%	148	—	—	41.2%	17.3%	37	.297	.847

Darrell Rasner'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 2008 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Zach JacksonCLE

ERA: 5.55
FIP: 4.61
SO: 31
WAR: 0.4

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Jarrod WashburnSEA

ERA: 4.69
FIP: 4.72
SO: 87
WAR: 1.0

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Jeff FrancisCOL

ERA: 5.01
FIP: 4.81
SO: 94
WAR: 1.0

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Jeremy SowersCLE

ERA: 5.58
FIP: 5.05
SO: 64
WAR: 0.4

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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.