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Kris Johnson

Age: 30
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #53

Born: October 14, 1984 in West Covina, CA, United States
MLB debut: August 18, 2013

dbWAR: .1
IP: 13.1
ERA: 4.72
FIP: 5.31
K/9: 8.1
FIP−: 142

Kris Johnson was a starting pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. In 2014 he struck out 12 batters over 13.1 innings across 3 appearances, 3 of them starts, going 0-1. His ERA of 4.72 was 26.3% higher than the league average of 3.74. Stripping out defence, his 5.31 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 25.8% of swings (12.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 14.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.8%. 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.

FIP5.31

K/98.1

WHIP1.95

WAR-.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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

																				Trend
2014	MIN	3	3	13.1	0	1	0	17	7	12	9	4.72	5.31	1.95	8.1	6.1	126	142	-0.1
2013	PIT	4	1	10.1	0	2	0	12	7	9	4	6.10	2.76	1.55	7.8	3.5	158	71	0.2

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2014	MIN	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.2	-118	-0.0
2013	PIT	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.7	-126	-0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2014. 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	22	20	5	0	1	5	.250	.286	.250	.247	22.7%
vs RHB	42	34	12	2	8	7	.353	.476	.618	.480	16.7%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2014.

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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 .251.

Pitch sequencing

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

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SinkerSliderChangeupCurveballFour-seam

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Pitch arsenal

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

Season


Sinker	63.4%	161	91.6	2,509	43.5%	19.7%	27	.370	.996
Slider	17.3%	44	82.9	676	56.8%	50.0%	12	—	—
Changeup	15.7%	40	84.2	2,118	40.0%	20.8%	12	—	—

Kris Johnson'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.