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Kris Medlen

Arizona Diamondbacks National League West

Age: 33
B/T: S/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #54

Born: October 7, 1985 in Artesia, CA, United States
MLB debut: May 21, 2009

dbWAR: 10.3
IP: 4.0
ERA: 15.75
FIP: 4.16
K/9: 9.0
FIP−: 100

Kris Medlen was a starting pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2018 he struck out 4 batters over 4.0 innings across 1 appearance, 1 of them starts, going 0-1. His ERA of 15.75 was 279.6% higher than the league average of 4.15. Stripping out defence, his 4.16 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 23.3% of swings (9.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 16.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.0%. His 0.0 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, 2018 regular season.

FIP4.16

K/99.0

WHIP3.25

WAR.0

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2018	AZ	1	1	4.0	0	1	0	9	7	4	4	15.75	4.16	3.25	9.0	9.0	380	100	0.0
2016	KC	6	6	24.1	1	3	0	30	21	18	20	7.77	5.20	2.05	6.7	7.4	185	124	0.0
2015	KC	15	8	58.1	6	2	0	56	26	40	18	4.01	4.13	1.27	6.2	2.8	101	104	0.4
2013	ATL	32	31	197.0	15	12	0	194	68	157	47	3.11	3.48	1.22	7.2	2.1	80	90	3.1
2012	ATL	50	12	138.0	10	1	1	103	24	120	23	1.57	2.42	0.91	7.8	1.5	39	60	3.6
2011	ATL	2	0	2.1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0.00	1.31	0.43	7.7	0.0	0	33	0.1
2010	ATL	31	14	107.2	6	2	0	108	44	83	21	3.68	3.78	1.20	6.9	1.8	90	93	1.3
2009	ATL	37	4	67.2	3	5	0	65	32	72	30	4.26	3.35	1.40	9.6	4.0	98	77	1.1

Batting Regular season

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


2018	AZ	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-118	-0.0
2015	KC	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	0.0%	0.0%	—	—	—	0.0
2013	ATL	29	67	9	1	4	1	4	23	.164	.217	.255	.091	.250	6.0%	34.3%	.215	-5.3	29	0.4
2012	ATL	18	39	4	0	2	0	4	15	.121	.216	.152	.030	.222	10.3%	38.5%	.182	-4.2	6	0.1
2010	ATL	16	33	5	0	2	0	3	14	.185	.290	.222	.037	.385	9.1%	42.4%	.251	-1.9	49	0.2
2009	ATL	8	13	0	0	0	0	0	7	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	53.8%	.000	-3.5	-130	-0.2

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 Kris Medlen's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2015 Post	KC	Postseason total	2	0	6.0	0	3	2	2	1	8	3.00	0.67	12.0
		ALCS	1	0	5.0	0	3	2	2	1	6	3.60	0.80	10.8
		World Series	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.00	0.00	18.0
2013 Post	ATL	NLDS	1	1	4.0	1	9	5	1	1	4	11.25	2.50	9.0
2012 Post	ATL	Wild Card	1	1	6.1	1	3	2	1	0	4	2.84	0.47	5.7
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	4	2	16.1	2	15	9	4	2	16	4.96	1.04	8.8

Postseason batting

Postseason Kris Medlen's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2013 Post	ATL	NLDS	1	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2012 Post	ATL	Wild Card	1	2	2	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	2	3	3	2	.000	.000	.000	.000

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, 2018. 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	2	1	0	1	0	.500	.667	.500	.528	0.0%
vs RHB	22	19	8	0	3	4	.421	.500	.579	.470	18.2%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2018.

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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 .247.

Pitch sequencing

What Kris Medlen 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.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	47.5%	48	89.4	2,362	41.7%	9.1%	11	—	—
Changeup	24.8%	25	83.8	1,728	40.0%	41.7%	5	—	—
Sinker	14.9%	15	90.0	2,263	40.0%	40.0%	2	—	—

Kris Medlen'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.