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Josh Geer

San Diego PadresNational League West
Age
26
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 3"
Weight
195 lb
Number
#52
Born
June 2, 1983 in Dallas, TX, United States
MLB debut
August 30, 2008

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dbWAR
-.8
Regular season, 4 season(s)
IP
102.2
ERA
5.96
FIP
6.25
K/9
4.7
FIP−
145
100 = avg

Josh Geer was a starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2009 he struck out 54 batters over 102.2 innings across 19 appearances, 17 of them starts, going 1-7. His ERA of 5.96 was 37.9% higher than the league average of 4.32 — 18th of 20 on his team, and 425th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.25 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 15.2% of swings (6.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 5.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.3%. His -1.3 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, 2009 regular season.

FIP6.25
K/94.7
WHIP1.35
WAR-1.3

WAR by season

0.4-0.4-1.30809

Pitching Regular season

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

Trend
2009SD1917102.21701166854235.966.251.354.72.0138145-1.3
2008SD5527.02102981692.673.911.415.33.062900.4

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2009SD17314010210.167.231.208.042.2866.5%32.3%.209-3.1170.1
2008SD510101014.111.200.111.000.20010.0%40.0%.163-1.4-170.0

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2009. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB2162005810930.290.324.510.36013.9%
vs RHB22220358171424.286.333.611.40310.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2009.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2009.

——————3 AB——3 AB—1 AB—5 AB——0 AB—1 AB
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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 .262.

Pitch sequencing

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

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Four-seamSinkerSliderChangeupUnknownPO

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Pitch arsenal

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

Four-Seam Fastball33.5%54786.02,10943.7%5.2%108.2781.020
Sinker25.6%41985.52,28037.7%7.6%86.302.854
Slider22.0%35979.147447.1%20.8%97.309.931
Changeup17.6%28775.31,42343.2%29.5%106.255.703
Unknown1.0%16——12.5%0.0%6——
Josh Geer'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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Similar players

Nearest 2009 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Sean O'SullivanLAA
ERA
5.92
FIP
5.98
SO
29
WAR
-0.4
Close
Tomo OhkaCLE
ERA
5.96
FIP
6.49
SO
31
WAR
-1.3
Close
Josh BanksSD
ERA
7.15
FIP
6.41
SO
9
WAR
-0.4
Close
Brett MyersPHI
ERA
4.84
FIP
6.14
SO
50
WAR
-0.8
Close
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.