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Eric Surkamp

Age: 29
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #47

Born: July 16, 1987 in Cincinnati, OH, United States
MLB debut: August 27, 2011

dbWAR: -1.5
IP: 38.2
ERA: 6.98
FIP: 6.72
K/9: 5.1
FIP−: 160

Eric Surkamp was a starting pitcher for the Oakland Athletics. In 2016 he struck out 22 batters over 38.2 innings across 9 appearances, 9 of them starts, going 0-5. His ERA of 6.98 was 66.7% higher than the league average of 4.19 — 21st of 23 on his team, and 490th of 512 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.72 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 16.6% of swings (7.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 11.2%. His -0.7 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, 2016 regular season.

FIP6.72

K/95.1

WHIP1.97

WAR-.7

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2016	OAK	9	9	38.2	0	5	55	30	22	21	6.98	6.72	1.97	5.1	4.9	167	160	-0.7
2015	LAD	1	0	3.1	0	0	4	4	4	1	10.80	11.23	1.50	10.8	2.7	273	284	-0.3
2014	CWS	35	0	24.1	2	0	22	13	20	13	4.81	4.82	1.44	7.4	4.8	129	129	-0.2
2013	SF	1	1	2.2	0	1	9	7	0	0	23.63	15.05	3.38	0.0	0.0	611	389	-0.3
2011	SF	6	6	26.2	2	2	32	17	13	17	5.74	4.68	1.84	4.4	5.7	146	119	0.0

Batting Regular season

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


2015	LAD	1	1	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	0.0%	0.0%	—	—	—	0.0
2013	SF	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.2	-127	-0.0
2011	SF	5	9	1	1	1	5	.125	.222	.125	.000	.333	11.1%	55.6%	.178	-1.0	2	0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2016. 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	49	42	13	2	5	3	.310	.408	.476	.390	6.1%
vs RHB	148	126	42	6	16	19	.333	.412	.571	.415	12.8%

Pitch sequencing

What Eric Surkamp 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	37.8%	278	88.7	2,006	42.8%	15.2%	73	.260	.729
Four-Seam Fastball	35.2%	259	87.9	1,539	49.4%	17.1%	56	.357	1.170
Curveball	18.9%	139	77.3	1,149	26.6%	15.9%	27	.407	1.096
Changeup	7.8%	57	80.9	1,733	15.8%	25.0%	13	—	—

Eric Surkamp'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 2016 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

John DanksCWS

ERA: 7.25
FIP: 6.10
SO: 16
WAR: -0.2

Aaron BlairATL

ERA: 7.59
FIP: 6.15
SO: 46
WAR: -0.7

José BerríosMIN

ERA: 8.02
FIP: 6.20
SO: 49
WAR: -0.6

Jesse HahnOAK

ERA: 6.02
FIP: 5.63
SO: 23
WAR: -0.3

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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.