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Kason Gabbard

Age: 26
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #61

Born: April 8, 1982 in Oxford, OH, United States
MLB debut: July 22, 2006

dbWAR: 1.1
IP: 56.0
ERA: 4.82
FIP: 5.26
K/9: 5.3
FIP−: 122

Kason Gabbard was a starting pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2008 he struck out 33 batters over 56.0 innings across 12 appearances, 12 of them starts, going 2-3. His ERA of 4.82 was 11.5% higher than the league average of 4.32 — 8th of 20 on his team, and 316th of 482 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.26 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 20.0% of swings (7.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 14.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.5%. 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, 2008 regular season.

FIP5.26

K/95.3

WHIP1.84

WAR.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.


2008	TEX	12	12	56.0	2	3	64	30	33	39	4.82	5.26	1.84	5.3	6.3	112	122	0.1
2007	TEX/BOS	15	15	81.1	6	1	68	42	55	41	4.65	4.94	1.34	6.1	4.5	104	110	0.5
2006	BOS	7	4	25.2	1	3	24	10	15	16	3.51	3.85	1.56	5.3	5.6	77	85	0.4

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

																					Trend
2008	TEX	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.000	.333	0.0%	25.0%	.224	-0.4	25	-0.0	—

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2008. 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	53	43	10	1	9	11	.233	.358	.326	.323	20.8%
vs RHB	210	176	54	4	30	22	.307	.409	.432	.376	10.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2008.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2008.

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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 .263.

Pitch sequencing

What Kason Gabbard 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


Sinker	54.4%	554	86.8	2,311	35.7%	13.8%	121	.314	.893
Curveball	25.0%	255	76.8	1,374	41.2%	26.6%	51	.235	.525
Changeup	18.7%	190	80.2	1,931	40.0%	27.8%	46	.304	.840
Intentional Ball	1.2%	12	57.6	1,219	0.0%	—	0	—	—

Kason Gabbard'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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Similar players

Nearest 2008 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Roberto HernandezCLE

ERA: 5.44
FIP: 4.89
SO: 58
WAR: 0.6

Barry ZitoSF

ERA: 5.15
FIP: 4.72
SO: 120
WAR: 1.4

Franklin MoralesCOL

ERA: 6.39
FIP: 5.58
SO: 9
WAR: -0.0

Ian SnellPIT

ERA: 5.42
FIP: 4.57
SO: 135
WAR: 1.3

Comparable

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.