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Eric Hurley

Age: 23
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #37

Born: September 17, 1985 in Sikeston, MO, United States
MLB debut: June 12, 2008

dbWAR: -.1
IP: 24.2
ERA: 5.47
FIP: 5.93
K/9: 4.7
FIP−: 137

Eric Hurley was a starting pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2008 he struck out 13 batters over 24.2 innings across 5 appearances, 5 of them starts, going 1-2. His ERA of 5.47 was 26.6% higher than the league average of 4.32 — 14th of 20 on his team, and 385th of 482 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.93 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 18.9% of swings (8.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.1%. 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, 2008 regular season.

FIP5.93

K/94.7

WHIP1.42

WAR-.1

Pitching Regular season

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

																				Trend
2008	TEX	5	5	24.2	1	2	0	26	15	13	9	5.47	5.93	1.42	4.7	3.3	127	137	-0.1	—

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2008	TEX	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.000	1.000	0.0%	50.0%	.448	+0.2	172	0.0	—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2008. 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	58	52	14	3	6	7	.269	.345	.519	.379	12.1%
vs RHB	49	45	12	2	3	6	.267	.327	.511	.367	12.2%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2008.

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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 .263.

Pitch sequencing

What Eric Hurley 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.


Four-Seam Fastball	47.4%	209	90.1	2,316	44.5%	10.5%	40	.350	1.158
Slider	25.4%	112	82.5	521	44.6%	29.8%	31	.194	.452
Changeup	12.2%	54	80.8	1,750	37.0%	20.0%	14	—	—
Sinker	10.4%	46	90.0	2,605	30.4%	10.0%	11	—	—
Unknown	4.5%	20	—	—	35.0%	50.0%	2	—	—

Eric Hurley'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 2008 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Jeff SuppanMIL

ERA: 4.96
FIP: 5.51
SO: 90
WAR: -0.4

Very close

Shawn ChaconHOU

ERA: 5.04
FIP: 5.83
SO: 53
WAR: -0.4

Scott FeldmanTEX

ERA: 5.29
FIP: 5.35
SO: 74
WAR: 0.1

Jason BergmannWSH

ERA: 5.09
FIP: 5.12
SO: 96
WAR: 0.2

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.