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Josh Lindblom

Milwaukee Brewers National League Central

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 240 lb
Number: #52

Born: June 15, 1987 in Lafayette, IN, United States
MLB debut: June 1, 2011

dbWAR: .6
IP: 16.2
ERA: 9.72
FIP: 7.37
K/9: 9.2
FIP−: 173

Josh Lindblom was a relief pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2021 he struck out 17 batters over 16.2 innings across 8 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 9.72 was 127.9% higher than the league average of 4.27. Stripping out defence, his 7.37 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 22.8% of swings (9.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 20.0%. His -0.5 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, 2021.

FIP7.37

K/99.2

WHIP1.98

WAR-.5

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	MIL	8	0	16.2	0	0	23	18	17	10	9.72	7.37	1.98	9.2	5.4	228	173	-0.5
2020	MIL	12	10	45.1	2	4	42	26	52	16	5.16	3.88	1.28	10.3	3.2	116	87	0.8
2017	PIT	4	0	10.1	0	0	18	9	10	3	7.84	2.09	2.03	8.7	2.6	180	48	0.3

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2021	MIL	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-118	-0.0
2017	PIT	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-124	-0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2021. 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	32	25	7	2	5	3	.280	.438	.680	.468	9.4%
vs RHB	53	46	16	3	5	14	.348	.415	.652	.445	26.4%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2021.

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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 .243.

Pitch sequencing

What Josh Lindblom 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	37.0%	127	90.3	2,592	53.5%	22.6%	30	.300	.833
Cutter	16.6%	57	86.0	2,452	47.4%	28.6%	10	—	—
Slider	14.3%	49	76.1	2,470	30.6%	25.0%	6	—	—
Changeup	12.2%	42	84.2	1,958	35.7%	5.6%	12	—	—
Curveball	10.5%	36	72.9	2,821	41.7%	45.5%	2	—	—
Splitter	4.7%	16	84.0	1,101	12.5%	40.0%	5	—	—
Sinker	4.7%	16	90.5	2,458	31.3%	0.0%	6	—	—

Josh Lindblom'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.