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Brian Wilson
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Number
- #38
- Born
- March 16, 1982 in Winchester, MA, United States
- MLB debut
- April 23, 2006
- dbWAR
- 6.1 Regular season, 13 season(s)
- IP
- 48.1
- ERA
- 4.66
- FIP
- 4.29
- K/9
- 10.1
- FIP−
- 115 100 = avg
Brian Wilson was a relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2014 he struck out 54 batters over 48.1 innings across 61 appearances, going 2-4. His ERA of 4.66 was 24.4% higher than the league average of 3.74 — 13th of 15 on his team, and 367th of 477 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.29 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 21.2% of swings (8.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 13.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 24.2%. 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, 2014 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | LAD | 61 | 0 | 48.1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 49 | 25 | 54 | 29 | 4.66 | 4.29 | 1.61 | 10.1 | 5.4 | 124 | 115 | -0.1 | |
| 2013 | LAD | 18 | 0 | 13.2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 0.66 | 2.02 | 0.88 | 8.6 | 2.6 | 17 | 52 | 0.4 | |
| 2012 | SF | 2 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9.00 | 4.09 | 3.00 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 224 | 102 | 0.0 | |
| 2011 | SF | 57 | 0 | 55.0 | 6 | 4 | 36 | 50 | 19 | 54 | 31 | 3.11 | 3.33 | 1.47 | 8.8 | 5.1 | 79 | 85 | 0.6 | |
| 2010 | SF | 70 | 0 | 74.2 | 3 | 3 | 48 | 62 | 15 | 93 | 26 | 1.81 | 2.19 | 1.18 | 11.2 | 3.1 | 44 | 54 | 2.1 | |
| 2009 | SF | 68 | 0 | 72.1 | 5 | 6 | 38 | 60 | 22 | 83 | 27 | 2.74 | 2.50 | 1.20 | 10.3 | 3.4 | 63 | 58 | 1.9 | |
| 2008 | SF | 63 | 0 | 62.1 | 3 | 2 | 41 | 62 | 32 | 67 | 28 | 4.62 | 3.93 | 1.44 | 9.7 | 4.0 | 107 | 91 | 0.7 | |
| 2007 | SF | 24 | 0 | 23.2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 6 | 18 | 7 | 2.28 | 3.28 | 0.97 | 6.8 | 2.7 | 51 | 73 | 0.4 | |
| 2006 | SF | 31 | 0 | 30.0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 32 | 18 | 23 | 21 | 5.40 | 4.25 | 1.77 | 6.9 | 6.3 | 119 | 94 | 0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 Post | LAD | NLDS | 1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.00 | 6.00 | 27.0 |
| 2013 Post | LAD | Postseason total | 6 | 0 | 6.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 12.0 |
| NLDS | 3 | 0 | 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 12.0 | ||
| NLCS | 3 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 12.0 | ||
| 2010 Post | SF | Postseason total | 10 | 0 | 11.2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 0.00 | 0.77 | 12.3 |
| NLDS | 3 | 0 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 11.3 | ||
| NLCS | 4 | 0 | 5.0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0.00 | 0.80 | 12.6 | ||
| World Series | 3 | 0 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.00 | 0.38 | 13.5 | ||
| Career | Postseason total · 3 Octobers | 17 | 0 | 18.0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 25 | 0.00 | 0.94 | 12.5 |
Postseason batting
| Season | Team | Round | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 Post | SF | NLCS | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 94 | 74 | 22 | 2 | 17 | 24 | .297 | .441 | .473 | .407 | 25.5% |
| vs RHB | 129 | 115 | 27 | 3 | 12 | 30 | .235 | .318 | .357 | .306 | 23.3% |
Pitch sequencing
What Brian Wilson 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.
| Slider | 594 | 88.4 | 939 | 44.3% | 19.3% | 114 | .246 | .712 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 212 | 93.0 | 1,812 | 46.7% | 24.5% | 40 | .200 | .544 | |
| Curveball | 88 | 75.9 | 582 | 48.9% | 32.1% | 14 | — | — | |
| Sinker | 84 | 91.7 | 2,010 | 39.3% | 16.2% | 17 | .471 | 1.409 | |
| Changeup | 18 | 85.7 | 1,682 | 38.9% | 20.0% | 2 | — | — | |
| Unknown | 14 | — | — | 50.0% | 25.0% | 3 | — | — | |
| Intentional Ball | 10 | 85.4 | 1,711 | 0.0% | — | 0 | — | — |
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Nearest 2014 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.