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Mitchell Boggs

St. Louis Cardinals National League Central

Age: 29
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 235 lb
Number: #41

Born: February 15, 1984 in Dalton, GA, United States
MLB debut: June 6, 2008

dbWAR: 1.1
IP: 23.1
ERA: 8.10
FIP: 7.42
K/9: 6.2
FIP−: 192

Mitchell Boggs was a relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2013 he struck out 16 batters over 23.1 innings across 27 appearances, going 0-3. His ERA of 8.10 was 109.5% higher than the league average of 3.87 — the worst on his team, and 491st of 496 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 7.42 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 21.3% of swings (9.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 16.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.3%. His -0.9 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.

FIP7.42

K/96.2

WHIP2.06

WAR-.9

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2013	STL/COL	27	0	23.1	0	3	2	28	21	16	20	8.10	7.42	2.06	6.2	7.7	210	192	-0.9
2012	STL	78	0	73.1	4	1	0	56	18	58	21	2.21	3.42	1.05	7.1	2.6	55	85	0.9
2011	STL	51	0	60.2	2	3	4	62	24	48	21	3.56	3.44	1.37	7.1	3.1	90	87	0.7
2010	STL	61	0	67.1	2	3	0	60	27	52	27	3.61	3.88	1.29	7.0	3.6	88	95	0.5
2009	STL	16	9	58.0	2	3	0	71	27	46	33	4.19	4.10	1.79	7.1	5.1	97	95	0.6
2008	STL	8	6	34.0	3	2	0	42	28	13	22	7.41	6.40	1.88	3.4	5.8	171	148	-0.5

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2011	STL	2	2	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-124	-0.0
2010	STL	3	3	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.8	-127	-0.0
2009	STL	9	17	1	6	.071	.071	.143	.071	.125	0.0%	35.3%	.092	-3.3	-65	-0.1
2008	STL	4	8	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	62.5%	.000	-2.2	-130	-0.1

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Mitchell Boggs's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2012 Post	STL	Postseason total	9	7.2	1	8	2	1	4	5	2.35	1.57	5.9
		Wild Card	1	0.2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0.00	3.00	0.0
		NLDS	4	3.2	1	3	0	0	1	2	0.00	1.09	4.9
		NLCS	4	3.1	0	4	2	1	2	3	5.40	1.80	8.1
2011 Post	STL	Postseason total	7	7.2	0	10	5	2	2	5	5.87	1.57	5.9
		NLDS	2	2.0	0	4	2	0	1	1	9.00	2.50	4.5
		NLCS	3	3.0	0	4	2	1	1	0	6.00	1.67	0.0
		World Series	2	2.2	0	2	1	1	0	4	3.38	0.75	13.5
2009 Post	STL	NLDS	1	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0.00	2.00	9.0
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	17	16.1	1	18	7	3	8	11	3.86	1.59	6.1

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

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	57	42	11	1	12	5	.262	.436	.357	.356	8.8%
vs RHB	63	51	17	4	8	11	.333	.429	.686	.465	17.5%

Pitch sequencing

What Mitchell Boggs throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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SinkerFour-seamSliderChangeupCutterIN

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Sinker	34.4%	156	94.5	2,433	41.7%	11.8%	29	.379	1.224
Four-Seam Fastball	21.9%	99	93.6	1,880	44.4%	9.5%	19	.368	1.184
Slider	19.9%	90	88.7	827	41.1%	32.6%	25	.280	.776
Changeup	11.5%	52	89.0	1,730	34.6%	37.5%	10	—	—
Cutter	9.9%	45	93.7	1,866	46.7%	31.8%	10	—	—
Intentional Ball	2.4%	11	77.0	1,574	0.0%	—	0	—	—

Mitchell Boggs'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.