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Greg Burke

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #40

Born: September 21, 1982 in Marlton, NJ, United States
MLB debut: May 16, 2009

dbWAR: .3
IP: 31.2
ERA: 5.68
FIP: 3.93
K/9: 8.0
FIP−: 102

Greg Burke was a relief pitcher for the New York Mets. In 2013 he struck out 28 batters over 31.2 innings across 32 appearances, going 0-3. His ERA of 5.68 was 47.0% higher than the league average of 3.87 — the worst on his team, and 443rd of 496 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.93 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 24.5% of swings (10.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.9%. 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, 2013 regular season.

FIP3.93

K/98.0

WHIP1.83

WAR.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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

																				Trend
2013	NYM	32	0	31.2	0	3	0	43	20	28	15	5.68	3.93	1.83	8.0	4.3	147	102	0.1
2009	SD	48	0	45.2	3	3	0	48	21	33	23	4.14	4.37	1.55	6.5	4.5	96	101	0.2

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2013	NYM	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-127	-0.0	—

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2013. 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	56	47	15	0	7	6	.319	.407	.447	.371	10.7%
vs RHB	100	91	28	3	8	22	.308	.364	.495	.379	22.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2013.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2013.

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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 .253.

Pitch sequencing

What Greg Burke 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


Sinker	56.7%	347	87.7	2,035	42.7%	18.6%	79	.430	1.141
Slider	32.5%	199	79.1	500	46.7%	35.6%	53	.132	.358
Four-Seam Fastball	6.2%	38	87.5	1,532	42.1%	9.1%	4	—	—
Changeup	3.3%	20	77.1	1,650	20.0%	0.0%	2	—	—

Greg Burke'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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Similar players

Nearest 2013 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Anthony BassSD

ERA: 5.36
FIP: 4.24
SO: 31
WAR: 0.0

Very close

Hector NoesíSEA

ERA: 6.59
FIP: 4.37
SO: 21
WAR: 0.0

Phil CokeDET

ERA: 5.40
FIP: 4.14
SO: 30
WAR: 0.1

Brandon LyonNYM

ERA: 4.98
FIP: 3.98
SO: 23
WAR: 0.1

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.