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Bobby Livingston

Age: 25
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #37

Born: September 3, 1982 in St. Louis, MO, United States
MLB debut: April 25, 2006

dbWAR: .5
IP: 56.1
ERA: 5.27
FIP: 4.61
K/9: 4.3
FIP−: 103

Bobby Livingston was a starting pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2007 he struck out 27 batters over 56.1 innings across 10 appearances, 10 of them starts, going 3-3. His ERA of 5.27 was 17.9% higher than the league average of 4.47 — 11th of 18 on his team, and 349th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.61 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 17.8% of swings (8.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 3.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 10.8%. His 0.6 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, 2007 regular season.

FIP4.61

K/94.3

WHIP1.51

WAR.6

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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

																				Trend
2007	CIN	10	10	56.1	3	3	0	77	33	27	8	5.27	4.61	1.51	4.3	1.3	118	103	0.6
2006	SEA	3	0	5.0	0	0	0	9	10	3	6	18.00	11.95	3.00	5.4	10.8	398	264	-0.4

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2007	CIN	11	31	7	0	2	0	2	7	.280	.333	.280	.000	.389	6.5%	22.6%	.287	-1.3	65	0.3	—

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2007. 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	50	44	15	3	3	9	.341	.396	.614	.437	18.0%
vs RHB	200	193	62	5	5	18	.321	.338	.492	.364	9.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2007.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2007.

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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 .266.

Not in the 2007 data: pitch types, recorded in every park from 2008. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.

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Similar players

Nearest 2007 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Paul ByrdCLE

ERA: 4.59
FIP: 4.68
SO: 88
WAR: 2.0

Very close

David WellsSD

ERA: 5.43
FIP: 4.87
SO: 82
WAR: 0.9

Jeff WeaverSEA

ERA: 6.20
FIP: 5.07
SO: 80
WAR: 0.7

Eric MiltonCIN

ERA: 5.17
FIP: 4.61
SO: 18
WAR: 0.3

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.