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Mike Ekstrom

Age: 29
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #56

Born: August 30, 1983 in Portland, OR, United States
MLB debut: September 10, 2008

dbWAR: .2
IP: 15.2
ERA: 6.32
FIP: 3.16
K/9: 5.2
FIP−: 79

Mike Ekstrom was a relief pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. In 2012 he struck out 9 batters over 15.2 innings across 15 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 6.32 was 57.4% higher than the league average of 4.01. Stripping out defence, his 3.16 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 16.7% of swings (7.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 2.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.5%. His 0.3 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, 2012 regular season.

FIP3.16

K/95.2

WHIP1.47

WAR.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2012	COL	15	15.2	0	21	11	9	2	6.32	3.16	1.47	5.2	1.1	157	79	0.3
2011	TB	1	1.0	0	1	0	1	0	0.00	1.03	1.00	9.0	0.0	0	26	0.0
2010	TB	15	16.1	1	12	6	10	9	3.31	3.87	1.29	5.5	5.0	81	95	0.1
2009	SD	12	18.1	0	21	13	19	8	6.38	4.62	1.58	9.3	3.9	148	107	0.0
2008	SD	8	9.2	2	14	8	6	7	7.45	6.75	2.17	5.6	6.5	172	156	-0.2

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2009	SD	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-136	-0.0
2008	SD	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-135	-0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2012. 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	24	21	11	1	0	2	.524	.500	.810	.551	8.3%
vs RHB	48	43	10	0	2	7	.233	.255	.302	.244	14.6%

Pitch sequencing

What Mike Ekstrom 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	59.8%	155	92.3	1,801	36.1%	5.6%	39	.385	.892
Slider	37.1%	96	83.1	836	49.0%	31.9%	24	.250	.689

Mike Ekstrom'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.