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Anthony Lerew

Kansas City Royals American League Central

Age: 28
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #50

Born: October 28, 1982 in Carlisle, PA, United States
MLB debut: September 4, 2005

dbWAR: -1.6
IP: 26.1
ERA: 8.54
FIP: 7.41
K/9: 6.2
FIP−: 182

Anthony Lerew was a starting pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2010 he struck out 18 batters over 26.1 innings across 6 appearances, 6 of them starts, going 1-4. His ERA of 8.54 was 109.4% higher than the league average of 4.08 — the second worst on his team, and the second worst among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 7.41 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 16.7% of swings (8.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.0%. 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, 2010 regular season.

FIP7.41

K/96.2

WHIP1.63

WAR-.7

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2010	KC	6	6	26.1	1	4	34	25	18	9	8.54	7.41	1.63	6.2	3.1	209	182	-0.7
2009	KC	3	2	13.1	0	1	14	6	7	8	4.05	7.75	1.65	4.7	5.4	94	179	-0.4
2007	ATL	3	3	11.2	0	2	14	10	9	7	7.71	7.95	1.80	6.9	5.4	172	178	-0.3
2006	ATL	1	0	2.0	0	0	5	5	1	3	22.50	8.15	4.00	4.5	13.5	497	180	-0.1
2005	ATL	7	0	8.0	0	0	9	5	5	5	5.63	5.27	1.75	5.6	5.6	131	123	-0.0

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2010	KC	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-125	-0.0
2007	ATL	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.8	-131	-0.0

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	55	47	13	1	5	9	.277	.345	.340	.313	16.4%
vs RHB	65	59	21	8	4	9	.356	.400	.847	.526	13.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2010.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2010.

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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 .257.

Pitch sequencing

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

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SinkerChangeupFour-seamSliderCurveball

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Sinker	32.9%	151	90.5	2,508	49.0%	15.7%	31	.226	.647
Changeup	28.1%	129	81.2	1,967	45.0%	29.9%	27	.259	.730
Four-Seam Fastball	24.8%	114	90.0	1,897	37.7%	5.3%	33	.485	1.575
Slider	11.3%	52	79.3	460	42.3%	12.0%	13	—	—
Curveball	2.8%	13	72.0	623	46.2%	0.0%	2	—	—

Anthony Lerew'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 2010 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Ryan Rowland-SmithSEA

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FIP: 6.55
SO: 49
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FIP: 7.58
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ERA: 6.40
FIP: 6.70
SO: 53
WAR: -1.8

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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.