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Phil Klein

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 7"
Weight: 255 lb
Number: #35

Born: April 30, 1989 in Columbus, OH, United States
MLB debut: August 1, 2014

dbWAR: -.3
IP: 19.1
ERA: 6.98
FIP: 4.08
K/9: 8.8
FIP−: 97

Phil Klein was a relief pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2016 he struck out 19 batters over 19.1 innings across 12 appearances, going 0-1. His ERA of 6.98 was 66.7% higher than the league average of 4.19. Stripping out defence, his 4.08 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 21.9% of swings (9.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 22.1%. His 0.2 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.

FIP4.08

K/98.8

WHIP1.66

WAR.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2016	TEX/PHI	12	2	19.1	0	1	23	15	19	9	6.98	4.08	1.66	8.8	4.2	167	97	0.2
2015	TEX	11	2	17.1	1	0	23	13	12	10	6.75	6.48	1.90	6.2	5.2	170	164	-0.4
2014	TEX	17	0	19.0	1	2	11	6	23	10	2.84	4.66	1.11	10.9	4.7	76	125	-0.1

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2016	PHI	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-123	-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	44	38	13	1	5	8	.342	.409	.500	.385	18.2%
vs RHB	42	35	10	1	4	11	.286	.375	.429	.356	26.2%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2016.

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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 .255.

Pitch sequencing

What Phil Klein 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	39.7%	142	91.9	2,088	50.7%	26.0%	26	.308	.899
Slider	30.2%	108	85.8	955	48.1%	20.0%	20	.450	1.026
Four-Seam Fastball	19.6%	70	91.7	2,123	45.7%	17.2%	14	—	—
Changeup	5.6%	20	85.6	1,624	35.0%	18.8%	12	—	—
Curveball	4.7%	17	79.6	492	29.4%	40.0%	1	—	—

Phil Klein'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.