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Mike Thompson

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #39

Born: November 6, 1980 in Walsh, CO, United States
MLB debut: May 17, 2006

dbWAR: -.2
IP: 15.2
ERA: 6.89
FIP: 6.18
K/9: 2.9
FIP−: 138

Mike Thompson was a relief pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2007 he struck out 5 batters over 15.2 innings across 7 appearances, going 0-1. His ERA of 6.89 was 54.1% higher than the league average of 4.47. Stripping out defence, his 6.18 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 13.7% of swings (6.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 6.7%. 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.

FIP6.18

K/92.9

WHIP1.66

WAR-.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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

																				Trend
2007	SD	7	0	15.2	0	1	0	19	12	5	7	6.89	6.18	1.66	2.9	4.0	154	138	-0.2
2006	SD	19	16	92.0	4	5	0	103	51	35	30	4.99	5.43	1.45	3.4	2.9	110	120	-0.0

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2007	SD	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.6	-137	-0.0
2006	SD	15	29	4	0	0	0	1	12	.160	.192	.160	.000	.308	3.4%	41.4%	.166	-4.2	-15	0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	30	26	8	1	3	3	.308	.367	.538	.365	10.0%
vs RHB	45	34	11	1	4	2	.324	.419	.529	.412	4.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2007.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2007.

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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 .266.

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.