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Scott Oberg

Age: 29
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 207 lb
Number: #45

Born: March 13, 1990 in Tewksbury, MA, United States
MLB debut: April 14, 2015

dbWAR: 2.9
IP: 56.0
ERA: 2.25
FIP: 3.54
K/9: 9.3
FIP−: 78

Scott Oberg was a relief pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. In 2019 he struck out 58 batters over 56.0 innings across 49 appearances, going 6-1. His ERA of 2.25 was 50.1% lower than the league average of 4.51 — the best on his team, and 20th of 545 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.54 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 28.2% of swings (13.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 26.0%. His 1.1 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, 2019.

FIP3.54

K/99.3

WHIP1.11

WAR1.1

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	COL	49	56.0	6	1	5	39	14	58	23	2.25	3.54	1.11	9.3	3.7	50	78	1.1
2018	COL	56	58.2	8	1	0	45	16	57	12	2.45	2.87	0.97	8.7	1.8	59	69	1.3
2017	COL	66	58.1	0	1	0	70	32	55	24	4.94	3.50	1.61	8.5	3.7	113	80	1.1
2016	COL	24	26.0	1	1	1	26	15	20	11	5.19	4.49	1.42	6.9	3.8	124	107	0.1
2015	COL	64	58.1	3	4	1	58	33	44	31	5.09	5.76	1.53	6.8	4.8	129	145	-0.7

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2019	COL	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-107	-0.0	—

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2019. 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	103	89	20	3	14	28	.225	.330	.326	.293	27.2%
vs RHB	120	110	19	2	9	30	.173	.233	.264	.217	25.0%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2019.

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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 .252.

Pitch sequencing

What Scott Oberg 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	52.0%	467	94.3	2,224	55.7%	28.0%	87	.195	.647
Slider	43.3%	389	85.6	2,536	42.2%	29.5%	104	.173	.457
Changeup	4.5%	40	87.9	1,951	35.0%	20.0%	9	—	—

Scott Oberg'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 2019 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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ERA: 2.12
FIP: 3.52
SO: 33
WAR: 0.5

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ERA: 2.47
FIP: 3.97
SO: 71
WAR: 0.9

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ERA: 2.49
FIP: 3.43
SO: 85
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ERA: 2.13
FIP: 3.41
SO: 60
WAR: 1.2

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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.