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Christian Bergman

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #36

Born: May 4, 1988 in Glendale, CA, United States
MLB debut: June 9, 2014

dbWAR: -.4
IP: 14.0
ERA: 5.79
FIP: 6.52
K/9: 4.5
FIP−: 157

Christian Bergman was a starting pitcher for the Seattle Mariners. In 2018 he struck out 7 batters over 14.0 innings across 3 appearances, 2 of them starts, going 0-1. His ERA of 5.79 was 39.4% higher than the league average of 4.15. Stripping out defence, his 6.52 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 15.1% of swings (7.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 5.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.3%. 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.

FIP6.52

K/94.5

WHIP1.07

WAR-.3

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	SEA	3	2	14.0	0	1	12	9	7	3	5.79	6.52	1.07	4.5	1.9	139	157	-0.3
2017	SEA	13	8	54.0	4	5	61	30	33	15	5.00	5.82	1.41	5.5	2.5	115	134	-0.4
2016	COL	15	1	24.2	1	3	39	23	22	6	8.39	5.78	1.82	8.0	2.2	200	138	-0.2
2015	COL	30	4	68.1	3	1	82	36	37	15	4.74	4.23	1.42	4.9	2.0	120	107	0.4

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	SEA	1	2	1	1	0	0	.500	.500	.500	.000	.500	0.0%	0.0%	.439	+0.2	193	0.1
2017	SEA	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-125	-0.0
2016	COL	3	3	1	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.000	.333	0.0%	0.0%	.292	-0.1	73	0.0
2015	COL	11	15	2	0	1	4	.167	.231	.167	.000	.250	6.7%	26.7%	.190	-1.5	10	0.0

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	32	29	4	1	3	7	.138	.219	.345	.250	21.9%
vs RHB	25	23	8	3	0	0	.348	.333	.739	.438	0.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2018.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .247.

Pitch sequencing

What Christian Bergman 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	46.0%	92	88.5	2,061	45.7%	17.9%	25	.160	.434
Changeup	25.5%	51	78.3	1,922	35.3%	24.0%	11	—	—
Curveball	15.5%	31	76.7	2,219	35.5%	0.0%	10	—	—
Slider	13.0%	26	85.3	2,040	38.5%	7.7%	6	—	—

Christian Bergman'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.