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Josh Kinney

Age
33
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
220 lb
Number
#52
Born
March 31, 1979 in Coudersport, PA, United States
MLB debut
July 3, 2006

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dbWAR
.8
Regular season, 6 season(s)
IP
32.0
ERA
3.94
FIP
3.75
K/9
10.1
FIP−
93
100 = avg

Josh Kinney was a relief pitcher for the Seattle Mariners. In 2012 he struck out 36 batters over 32.0 innings across 35 appearances, going 0-3. His ERA of 3.94 was 1.9% lower than the league average of 4.01 — 12th of 17 on his team, and 263rd of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.75 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 29.0% of swings (13.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 26.5%. 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, 2012 regular season.

FIP3.75
K/910.1
WHIP1.22
WAR.2

WAR by season

0.30.0-0.30608091112

Pitching Regular season

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

Trend
2012SEA35032.0031241436153.943.751.2210.14.298930.2
2011CWS13017.200023132076.623.031.7010.23.6168770.3
2009STL17015.110023158118.806.292.224.76.5204146-0.3
2008STL707.000030810.001.270.5710.31.30290.3
2006STL21025.00001792283.244.031.007.92.972890.3

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2009STL11000001.000.000.000.000—0.0%100.0%.000-0.3-129-0.0—

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 Josh Kinney's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2006 PostSTLPostseason total706.1100300460.001.118.5
NLDS202.0000000110.000.504.5
NLCS303.1100300140.001.2010.8
World Series201.0000000210.002.009.0

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.

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2012. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB483980711.205.333.308.27122.9%
vs RHB8876163825.211.299.382.30428.4%

Pitch sequencing

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

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SliderSinkerCurveballINFour-seam

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Pitch arsenal

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

Slider49.2%25983.074355.6%34.5%66.197.578
Sinker31.4%16591.01,94846.1%13.1%21.3811.119
Curveball14.6%7778.51,88248.1%33.3%28.107.388
Four-Seam Fastball2.3%1289.61,67533.3%33.3%1——
Intentional Ball2.3%1262.28450.0%—0——
Josh Kinney'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.