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Bud Norris

St. Louis Cardinals National League Central

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 215 lb

Born: March 2, 1985 in Greenbrae, CA, United States
MLB debut: July 29, 2009

dbWAR: 1.9
IP: 57.2
ERA: 3.59
FIP: 3.99
K/9: 10.5
FIP−: 96

Bud Norris was a relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2018 he struck out 67 batters over 57.2 innings across 64 appearances, going 3-6. His ERA of 3.59 was 13.5% lower than the league average of 4.15 — 10th of 20 on his team, and 186th of 530 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.99 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 27.5% of swings (13.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 27.3%. His 0.4 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.

FIP3.99

K/910.5

WHIP1.25

WAR.4

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	STL	64	0	57.2	3	6	28	51	23	67	21	3.59	3.99	1.25	10.5	3.3	87	96	0.4
2017	LAA	60	3	62.0	2	6	19	56	29	74	27	4.21	3.90	1.34	10.7	3.9	97	89	0.7
2016	ATL/LAD	35	19	113.0	6	10	0	116	64	102	49	5.10	4.33	1.46	8.1	3.9	122	103	0.9
2015	SD/BAL	38	11	83.0	3	11	0	100	62	71	31	6.72	5.04	1.58	7.7	3.4	170	127	-0.5

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2016	ATL/LAD	20	38	6	0	1	0	3	7	.222	.323	.296	.074	.300	7.9%	18.4%	.284	-1.1	74	0.4
2015	BAL	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	25.0%	.000	-1.0	-117	-0.1

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	131	114	21	2	14	39	.184	.269	.289	.251	29.8%
vs RHB	114	101	30	6	7	28	.297	.372	.475	.364	24.6%

Pitch sequencing

What Bud Norris 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


Cutter	36.0%	350	89.7	2,577	48.6%	36.6%	77	.208	.587
Sinker	29.5%	287	94.6	2,423	46.7%	17.1%	47	.191	.592
Four-Seam Fastball	26.4%	257	94.4	2,450	54.5%	21.8%	62	.323	.932
Slider	7.4%	72	84.1	2,714	48.6%	35.7%	27	.222	.620

Bud Norris'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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Nearest 2018 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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FIP: 3.62
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ERA: 4.14
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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.