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John Axford

Milwaukee Brewers National League Central

Age: 38
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 234 lb
Number: #59

Born: April 1, 1983 in Simcoe, ON, Canada
MLB debut: September 15, 2009

dbWAR: 5.3
IP: 0.1
ERA: 54.00
FIP: 21.17
K/9: 0.0
FIP−: 496

John Axford was a relief pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2021 he struck out 0 batters over 0.1 innings across 1 appearance, going 0-0. His ERA of 54.00 was 1165.9% higher than the league average of 4.27. Stripping out defence, his 21.17 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 20.0% of swings (9.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 20.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 0.0%. His -0.1 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, 2021 regular season.

FIP21.17

K/90.0

WHIP9.00

WAR-.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2021	MIL	1	0	0.1	0	0	0	2	2	0	1	54.00	21.17	9.00	0.0	27.0	1,266	496	-0.1
2018	TOR/LAD	50	1	54.2	4	1	0	52	32	54	22	5.27	3.98	1.35	8.9	3.6	127	96	0.4
2017	OAK	22	0	21.0	0	1	0	27	15	21	17	6.43	5.73	2.10	9.0	7.3	148	131	-0.2
2016	OAK	68	0	65.2	6	4	3	65	29	60	30	3.97	4.01	1.45	8.2	4.1	95	96	0.4
2015	COL	60	0	55.2	4	5	25	56	26	62	32	4.20	3.56	1.58	10.0	5.2	106	90	0.8
2014	CLE/PIT	62	0	54.2	2	4	10	43	24	63	36	3.95	4.34	1.45	10.4	5.9	106	116	-0.1
2013	MIL/STL	75	0	65.0	7	7	0	73	29	65	26	4.02	4.34	1.52	9.0	3.6	104	112	0.0
2012	MIL	75	0	69.1	5	8	35	61	36	93	39	4.67	4.06	1.44	12.1	5.1	116	101	0.4
2011	MIL	74	0	73.2	2	2	46	59	16	86	25	1.95	2.41	1.14	10.5	3.1	50	61	1.8
2010	MIL	50	0	58.0	8	2	24	42	16	76	27	2.48	2.13	1.19	11.8	4.2	61	52	1.7
2009	MIL	7	0	7.2	0	0	1	5	3	9	6	3.52	3.10	1.43	10.6	7.0	81	72	0.1

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

																					Trend
2012	MIL	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.2	-114	-0.0	—

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

Postseason John Axford's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	W	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2013 Post	STL	Postseason total	6	5.2	0	0	2	1	1	4	9	1.59	1.06	14.3
		NLDS	2	1.1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0.00	1.50	0.0
		NLCS	2	2.0	0	0	2	1	1	1	4	4.50	1.50	18.0
		World Series	2	2.1	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	0.00	0.43	19.3
2011 Post	MIL	Postseason total	6	7.0	1	3	5	1	0	2	9	1.29	1.00	11.6
		NLDS	3	4.0	1	1	3	1	0	2	5	2.25	1.25	11.3
		NLCS	3	3.0	0	2	2	0	0	0	4	0.00	0.67	12.0
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	12	12.2	1	3	7	2	1	6	18	1.42	1.03	12.8

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.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2021. 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	3	1	1	0	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.785	0.0%
vs RHB	2	2	1	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	.438	0.0%

Pitch sequencing

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

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Sinker

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Pitch arsenal

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

Season


Sinker	68.2%	15	94.5	2,159	53.3%	28.6%	2	—	—

John Axford'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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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.