Players · B · Pitcher · 2012 regular season
Nick Blackburn
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 240 lb
- Number
- #53
- Born
- February 24, 1982 in Ada, OK, United States
- MLB debut
- September 3, 2007
- dbWAR
- 3.0 Regular season, 11 season(s)
- IP
- 98.2
- ERA
- 7.39
- FIP
- 6.09
- K/9
- 3.8
- FIP−
- 152 100 = avg
Nick Blackburn was a starting pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. In 2012 he struck out 42 batters over 98.2 innings across 19 appearances, 19 of them starts, going 4-9. His ERA of 7.39 was 84.0% higher than the league average of 4.01 — the second worst on his team, and 472nd of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.09 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 12.5% of swings (5.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 5.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 9.2%. 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, 2012 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2012 | MIN | 19 | 19 | 98.2 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 143 | 81 | 42 | 26 | 7.39 | 6.09 | 1.71 | 3.8 | 2.4 | 184 | 152 | -1.3 | |
| 2011 | MIN | 26 | 26 | 148.1 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 183 | 74 | 76 | 54 | 4.49 | 4.84 | 1.60 | 4.6 | 3.3 | 114 | 123 | 0.1 | |
| 2010 | MIN | 28 | 26 | 161.0 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 194 | 97 | 68 | 40 | 5.42 | 5.07 | 1.45 | 3.8 | 2.2 | 133 | 124 | -0.1 | |
| 2009 | MIN | 33 | 33 | 205.2 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 240 | 92 | 98 | 41 | 4.03 | 4.37 | 1.37 | 4.3 | 1.8 | 93 | 101 | 2.4 | |
| 2008 | MIN | 33 | 33 | 193.1 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 224 | 87 | 96 | 39 | 4.05 | 4.40 | 1.36 | 4.5 | 1.8 | 94 | 102 | 1.9 | |
| 2007 | MIN | 6 | 0 | 11.2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 7.71 | 4.61 | 1.80 | 6.2 | 1.5 | 172 | 103 | 0.0 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 Post | MIN | ALDS | 1 | 1 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1.59 | 0.88 | 4.8 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 209 | 186 | 70 | 9 | 20 | 19 | .376 | .435 | .591 | .445 | 9.1% |
| vs RHB | 247 | 235 | 73 | 14 | 6 | 23 | .311 | .322 | .579 | .385 | 9.3% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2012.
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Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2012.
Pitch sequencing
What Nick Blackburn throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.
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Pitch arsenal
What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.
| Sinker | 953 | 90.3 | 1,814 | 41.2% | 8.2% | 245 | .359 | 1.010 | |
| Curveball | 246 | 78.0 | 1,010 | 41.1% | 17.4% | 58 | .310 | .890 | |
| Changeup | 230 | 82.1 | 1,439 | 40.9% | 24.0% | 69 | .290 | .774 | |
| Cutter | 135 | 87.0 | 942 | 34.1% | 15.6% | 32 | .344 | .957 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 51 | 89.7 | 1,435 | 41.2% | 3.3% | 16 | .313 | 1.103 |
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Nearest 2012 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.