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Corey Knebel

Philadelphia Phillies National League East

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #46

Born: November 26, 1991 in Denton, TX, United States
MLB debut: May 24, 2014

dbWAR: 4.4
IP: 44.2
ERA: 3.43
FIP: 4.46
K/9: 8.3
FIP−: 112

Corey Knebel was a relief pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2022 he struck out 41 batters over 44.2 innings across 46 appearances, going 3-5. His ERA of 3.43 was 13.7% lower than the league average of 3.97 — 8th of 15 on his team, and 206th of 546 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.46 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 27.4% of swings (12.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 14.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.1%. His 0.0 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, 2022 regular season.

FIP4.46

K/98.3

WHIP1.37

WAR.0

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2022	PHI	46	0	44.2	3	5	12	33	17	41	28	3.43	4.46	1.37	8.3	5.6	86	112	0.0
2021	LAD	27	4	25.2	4	0	3	16	7	30	9	2.45	2.90	0.97	10.5	3.2	58	68	0.6
2020	MIL	15	0	13.1	0	0	0	15	9	15	8	6.07	6.64	1.72	10.1	5.4	136	149	-0.2
2018	MIL	57	0	55.1	4	3	16	38	22	88	22	3.58	3.03	1.08	14.3	3.6	86	73	1.1
2017	MIL	76	0	76.0	1	4	39	48	15	126	40	1.78	2.53	1.16	14.9	4.7	41	58	2.1
2016	MIL	35	0	32.2	1	4	2	32	17	38	16	4.68	3.57	1.47	10.5	4.4	112	85	0.4
2015	MIL	48	0	50.1	0	0	0	44	18	58	17	3.22	4.03	1.21	10.4	3.0	81	102	0.3
2014	DET	8	0	8.2	0	0	0	11	6	11	3	6.23	1.63	1.62	11.4	3.1	167	44	0.3

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2021	LAD	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-122	-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 Corey Knebel's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2021 Post	LAD	Postseason total	7	2	5.2	0	0	5	2	1	11	3.18	1.06	17.5
		Wild Card	1	0	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.00	27.0
		NLDS	2	1	2.0	0	0	1	0	0	3	0.00	0.50	13.5
		NLCS	4	1	3.1	0	0	4	2	1	7	5.40	1.50	18.9
2018 Post	MIL	Postseason total	9	0	10.0	1	1	2	1	3	14	0.90	0.50	12.6
		NLDS	3	0	3.0	0	0	0	0	1	4	0.00	0.33	12.0
		NLCS	6	0	7.0	1	1	2	1	2	10	1.29	0.57	12.9
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	16	2	15.2	1	1	7	3	4	25	1.72	0.70	14.4

Postseason batting

Postseason Corey Knebel's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2018 Post	MIL	NLCS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

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, 2022. 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	93	80	13	1	11	17	.163	.269	.275	.242	18.3%
vs RHB	100	83	20	3	16	24	.241	.370	.398	.345	24.0%

Pitch sequencing

What Corey Knebel 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	69.9%	553	95.6	2,369	48.6%	25.4%	122	.189	.651
Knuckle Curve	27.1%	214	78.7	2,832	34.6%	31.8%	38	.237	.608
Slider	3.0%	24	79.6	2,542	45.8%	50.0%	5	—	—

Corey Knebel'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 2022 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Tyler MatzekATL

ERA: 3.50
FIP: 4.49
SO: 36
WAR: -0.0

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Jonathan HernándezTEX

ERA: 2.97
FIP: 3.97
SO: 27
WAR: 0.2

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Hirokazu SawamuraBOS

ERA: 3.73
FIP: 4.16
SO: 40
WAR: 0.2

Albert AbreuNYY

ERA: 3.26
FIP: 4.77
SO: 38
WAR: -0.1

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.