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George Kontos
- Age
- 33
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Number
- #70
- Born
- June 12, 1985 in Lincolnwood, IL, United States
- MLB debut
- September 10, 2011
- dbWAR
- 2.7 Regular season, 13 season(s)
- IP
- 26.2
- ERA
- 4.39
- FIP
- 5.60
- K/9
- 5.1
- FIP−
- 135 100 = avg
George Kontos was a relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2018 he struck out 15 batters over 26.2 innings across 28 appearances, going 2-3. His ERA of 4.39 was 5.7% higher than the league average of 4.15 — 10th of 16 on his team, and 322nd of 530 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.60 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 23.7% of swings (11.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.9%. His -0.3 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.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2018 | PIT/CLE/NYY | 28 | 0 | 26.2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 27 | 13 | 15 | 7 | 4.39 | 5.60 | 1.27 | 5.1 | 2.4 | 106 | 135 | -0.3 | |
| 2017 | SF/PIT | 65 | 0 | 66.1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 61 | 25 | 70 | 20 | 3.39 | 3.72 | 1.22 | 9.5 | 2.7 | 78 | 85 | 0.8 | |
| 2016 | SF | 57 | 0 | 53.1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 42 | 15 | 35 | 20 | 2.53 | 3.80 | 1.16 | 5.9 | 3.4 | 60 | 91 | 0.6 | |
| 2015 | SF | 73 | 0 | 73.1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 57 | 19 | 44 | 12 | 2.33 | 4.02 | 0.94 | 5.4 | 1.5 | 59 | 101 | 0.3 | |
| 2014 | SF | 24 | 0 | 32.1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 10 | 27 | 11 | 2.78 | 2.88 | 1.08 | 7.5 | 3.1 | 74 | 77 | 0.5 | |
| 2013 | SF | 52 | 0 | 55.1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 60 | 27 | 47 | 18 | 4.39 | 4.08 | 1.41 | 7.6 | 2.9 | 114 | 105 | 0.1 | |
| 2012 | SF | 44 | 0 | 43.2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 12 | 44 | 12 | 2.47 | 2.80 | 1.05 | 9.1 | 2.5 | 62 | 70 | 0.8 | |
| 2011 | NYY | 7 | 0 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3.00 | 4.69 | 1.17 | 9.0 | 4.5 | 76 | 119 | -0.0 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 Post | SF | NLDS | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4.50 | 0.50 | 4.5 |
| 2012 Post | SF | Postseason total | 8 | 0 | 5.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6.75 | 1.31 | 3.4 |
| NLDS | 4 | 0 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 0.55 | 4.9 | ||
| NLCS | 3 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.50 | 1.50 | 0.0 | ||
| World Series | 1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 54.00 | 9.00 | 0.0 | ||
| Career | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 9 | 0 | 7.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6.14 | 1.09 | 3.7 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 57 | 49 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 2 | .286 | .351 | .469 | .353 | 3.5% |
| vs RHB | 59 | 54 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 13 | .241 | .293 | .481 | .334 | 22.0% |
Pitch sequencing
What George Kontos 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.
| Cutter | 236 | 86.5 | 2,367 | 50.0% | 25.2% | 50 | .280 | .857 | |
| Slider | 103 | 83.5 | 2,498 | 42.7% | 28.1% | 32 | .281 | .638 | |
| Sinker | 94 | 89.6 | 2,123 | 31.9% | 10.8% | 21 | .190 | .899 |
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Nearest 2018 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.