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Wes Littleton

Age
26
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 3"
Weight
200 lb
Number
#58
Born
September 2, 1982 in Hayward, CA, United States
MLB debut
July 4, 2006

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dbWAR
.5
Regular season, 4 season(s)
IP
18.0
ERA
6.00
FIP
4.13
K/9
7.0
FIP−
96
100 = avg

Wes Littleton was a relief pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2008 he struck out 14 batters over 18.0 innings across 12 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 6.00 was 38.8% higher than the league average of 4.32. Stripping out defence, his 4.13 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 13.7% of swings (5.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.5%. 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, 2008 regular season.

FIP4.13
K/97.0
WHIP1.44
WAR.2

WAR by season

0.40.2-0.0060708

Pitching Regular season

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

Trend
2008TEX12018.000018121486.004.131.447.04.0139960.2
2007TEX35048.0322482324164.315.051.334.53.096113-0.0
2006TEX33036.121123717131.734.170.994.23.238920.4

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2007TEX11000001.000.000.000.000—0.0%100.0%.000-0.3-128-0.0—

Platoon splits

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

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB37297045.241.378.276.32013.5%
vs RHB433911149.282.349.385.33420.9%

Pitch sequencing

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

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SinkerSliderChangeupUnknown

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Pitch arsenal

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

Sinker61.5%19087.32,29742.6%4.9%46.326.863
Slider17.5%5473.689640.7%33.3%10——
Changeup12.6%3976.81,72446.2%26.7%5——
Unknown8.4%26——57.7%23.5%7——
Wes Littleton'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.