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Josh Banks

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #38

Born: July 18, 1982 in Baltimore, MD, United States
MLB debut: September 11, 2007

dbWAR: -.6
IP: 4.0
ERA: 13.50
FIP: 8.83
K/9: 2.3
FIP−: 216

Josh Banks was a starting pitcher for the Houston Astros. In 2010 he struck out 1 batter over 4.0 innings across 1 appearance, 1 of them starts, going 0-1. His ERA of 13.50 was 230.9% higher than the league average of 4.08. Stripping out defence, his 8.83 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 8.8% of swings (3.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 16.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 4.2%. 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, 2010 regular season.

FIP8.83

K/92.3

WHIP3.00

WAR-.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2010	HOU	1	1	4.0	0	1	8	6	1	4	13.50	8.83	3.00	2.3	9.0	331	216	-0.2
2009	SD	6	3	22.2	1	1	30	18	9	4	7.15	6.41	1.50	3.6	1.6	165	148	-0.4
2008	SD	17	14	85.1	3	6	94	45	43	32	4.75	5.18	1.48	4.5	3.4	110	120	-0.0
2007	TOR	3	1	7.1	0	0	11	6	2	2	7.36	5.29	1.77	2.5	2.5	165	118	-0.0

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2009	SD	4	6	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.333	.000	.000	.000	33.3%	0.0%	.240	-0.5	40	0.0
2008	SD	14	27	3	0	0	0	2	6	.130	.200	.130	.000	.176	7.4%	22.2%	.166	-3.7	-15	0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2010. 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	7	5	1	0	2	0	.200	.429	.400	.391	0.0%
vs RHB	17	15	7	1	2	1	.467	.529	.800	.572	5.9%

Pitch sequencing

What Josh Banks 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	63.1%	53	83.9	1,355	41.5%	8.7%	11	—	—
Changeup	34.5%	29	80.2	850	20.7%	9.1%	9	—	—

Josh Banks'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.