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Glen Perkins

Age
34
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 0"
Weight
205 lb
Number
#15
Born
March 2, 1983 in Saint Paul, MN, United States
MLB debut
September 21, 2006

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dbWAR
6.7
Regular season, 14 season(s)
IP
5.2
ERA
9.53
FIP
6.69
K/9
3.2
FIP−
153
100 = avg

Glen Perkins was a relief pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. In 2017 he struck out 2 batters over 5.2 innings across 8 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 9.53 was 118.7% higher than the league average of 4.36. Stripping out defence, his 6.69 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 16.7% of swings (8.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 14.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 5.9%. 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, 2017 regular season.

FIP6.69
K/93.2
WHIP2.29
WAR-.1

WAR by season

1.50.7-0.1060708091011121314151617

Pitching Regular season

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

Trend
2017MIN805.200086259.536.692.293.27.9219153-0.1
2016MIN202.000052319.001.653.0013.54.5215390.1
2015MIN60057.03532582154103.323.821.198.51.684960.4
2014MIN63061.24334622566113.653.101.189.61.698830.9
2013MIN61062.22036431677152.302.490.9311.12.259641.4
2012MIN70070.13116572078162.563.171.0410.02.064791.1
2011MIN65061.2442551765212.482.411.239.53.163611.5
2010MIN13121.211029141455.824.831.575.82.1143118-0.1
2009MIN181796.16701206345235.894.661.484.22.11361080.8
2008MIN2626151.012401837474394.415.141.474.42.31021190.3
2007MIN19028.2000231020123.144.221.226.33.870940.2
2006MIN405.200031601.591.030.539.50.035230.2

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2009MIN13000001.000.000.000.000—0.0%33.3%.000-0.8-123-0.0
2008MIN24000003.000.000.000.000—0.0%75.0%.000-1.1-132-0.1

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 Glen Perkins's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2006 PostMINALDS100.1000200000.006.000.0

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, 2017. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB1183021.375.545.375.4349.1%
vs RHB23175031.294.435.588.4284.3%

Pitch sequencing

What Glen Perkins 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.

Four-Seam Fastball35.0%4390.62,11837.2%30.0%6——
Sinker32.5%4090.01,98345.0%16.7%9——
Slider32.5%4080.82,54640.0%4.5%10——
Glen Perkins'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.