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Brian Duensing

Age: 35
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #52

Born: February 22, 1983 in Marysville, KS, United States
MLB debut: April 10, 2009

dbWAR: 4.9
IP: 37.2
ERA: 7.65
FIP: 6.35
K/9: 5.7
FIP−: 153

Brian Duensing was a relief pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2018 he struck out 24 batters over 37.2 innings across 48 appearances, going 3-0. His ERA of 7.65 was 84.3% higher than the league average of 4.15 — the worst on his team, and 518th of 530 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.35 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 21.1% of swings (9.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 16.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.3%. 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, 2018 regular season.

FIP6.35

K/95.7

WHIP1.88

WAR-.7

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2018	CHC	48	0	37.2	3	0	1	42	32	24	29	7.65	6.35	1.88	5.7	6.9	184	153	-0.7
2017	CHC	68	0	62.1	1	1	0	58	19	61	18	2.74	3.41	1.22	8.8	2.6	63	78	1.1
2016	BAL	14	0	13.1	1	0	0	13	6	10	3	4.05	4.27	1.20	6.8	2.0	97	102	0.1
2015	MIN	55	0	48.2	4	1	1	46	23	24	21	4.25	5.02	1.38	4.4	3.9	107	127	-0.3
2014	MIN	62	0	54.1	3	3	0	52	20	33	20	3.31	4.51	1.33	5.5	3.3	89	121	-0.2
2013	MIN	73	0	61.0	6	2	1	68	27	56	22	3.98	3.24	1.48	8.3	3.2	103	84	0.8
2012	MIN	55	11	109.0	4	12	0	126	62	69	27	5.12	3.82	1.40	5.7	2.2	128	95	1.0
2011	MIN	32	28	161.2	9	14	0	193	94	115	52	5.23	4.27	1.52	6.4	2.9	133	108	1.0
2010	MIN	53	13	130.2	10	3	0	122	38	78	35	2.62	3.85	1.20	5.4	2.4	64	94	1.3
2009	MIN	24	9	84.0	5	2	0	84	34	53	31	3.64	4.13	1.37	5.7	3.3	84	96	0.9

Batting Regular season

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


2018	CHC	2	2	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.000	—	50.0%	50.0%	.353	+0.1	121	0.0
2017	CHC	4	4	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	75.0%	.000	-1.1	-117	-0.1
2015	MIN	1	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-123	-0.0
2012	MIN	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.2	-118	-0.0
2011	MIN	2	4	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.0	-122	-0.1
2010	MIN	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-126	-0.0

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 Brian Duensing's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2017 Post	CHC	Postseason total	5	0	5.1	1	1	1	1	0	4	4	1.69	0.94	6.8
		NLDS	2	0	1.1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0.00	0.75	6.8
		NLCS	3	0	4.0	0	1	1	1	0	3	3	2.25	1.00	6.8
2016 Post	BAL	Wild Card	1	0	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.00	27.0
2010 Post	MIN	ALDS	1	1	3.1	0	1	7	5	1	1	1	13.50	2.40	2.7
2009 Post	MIN	ALDS	1	1	4.2	0	1	7	5	1	1	3	9.64	1.71	5.8
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	8	2	13.2	1	3	15	11	2	6	9	7.24	1.54	5.9

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, 2018. 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	81	69	15	3	9	13	.217	.313	.377	.307	16.0%
vs RHB	100	78	27	3	20	11	.346	.470	.538	.432	11.0%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2018.

Pitch sequencing

What Brian Duensing 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	32.2%	232	91.3	2,062	51.3%	13.0%	46	.326	1.113
Sinker	21.9%	158	90.5	1,977	32.9%	15.7%	32	.188	.553
Slider	18.2%	131	80.8	2,511	34.4%	30.4%	32	.375	.931
Changeup	14.9%	107	85.1	1,859	43.9%	30.0%	28	.286	.864
Curveball	12.5%	90	71.7	2,514	38.9%	29.2%	8	—	—

Brian Duensing'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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SO: 19
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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.