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John Grabow - Chicago Cubs
Birthdate:11/4/1978	Bats/Throws:L/L	Height/Weight:6-2/205	Position:P
11/19/2009 - John Grabow Gets Paid by Dave Cameron (FanGraphs) 71 7/31/2009 - Pirates Trade John Grabow and Tom Gorzelanny by R.J. Anderson (FanGraphs) 17
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Season	Team	W	L	ERA	G	CG	ShO	SV	BS	IP	TBF	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	HBP	WP	BK	SO
Total	- - -	20	15	4.03	420	0	0	6	16	388.1	1697	379	187	174	41	179	19	10	14	2	342
2003	Pirates	0	0	3.60	5	0	0	0	0	5.0	22	6	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	9
2004	Pirates	2	5	5.11	68	0	0	1	6	61.2	286	81	39	35	8	28	7	0	5	0	64
2005	Pirates	2	3	4.85	63	0	0	0	1	52.0	222	46	31	28	6	25	2	2	1	0	42
2006	Pirates	4	2	4.13	72	0	0	0	2	69.2	303	68	34	32	7	30	3	3	0	0	66
2007	Pirates (AAA)	0	0	2.25	4	0	0	0		4.0	16	4	1	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	4
2007	Pirates	3	2	4.53	63	0	0	1	1	51.2	228	56	27	26	6	19	2	1	3	0	42
2008	Pirates	6	3	2.84	74	0	0	4	4	76.0	322	60	25	24	9	37	2	1	4	2	62
2009	Pirates/Cubs	3	0	3.36	75	0	0	0	2	72.1	314	62	28	27	5	40	3	3	1	0	57
2009	Pirates	3	0	3.42	45	0	0	0	2	47.1	209	43	19	18	4	28	2	2	0	0	41
2009	Cubs	0	0	3.24	30	0	0	0	0	25.0	105	19	9	9	1	12	1	1	1	0	16
2010	Bill James	4	4	4.00	78			0		72.0		67			7	34		2			61

Advanced

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Season	Team	K/9	BB/9	K/BB	HR/9	AVG	WHIP	BABIP	LOB%	FIP
Total	- - -	7.93	4.15	1.91	0.95	.257	1.44	.310	74.6 %	4.18
2003	Pirates	16.20	0.00	9.00	0.00	.299	1.20	.541	50.0 %	-0.57
2003	Average	6.40	3.30	1.94	1.08	.265	1.38	.298	71.2 %	4.40
2004	Pirates	9.34	4.09	2.29	1.17	.318	1.77	.399	71.6 %	4.02
2004	Average	6.60	3.36	1.96	1.13	.267	1.40	.301	71.4 %	4.46
2005	Pirates	7.27	4.33	1.68	1.04	.239	1.37	.277	65.0 %	4.46
2005	Average	6.38	3.17	2.02	1.04	.265	1.37	.299	71.6 %	4.29
2006	Pirates	8.53	3.88	2.20	0.90	.257	1.41	.319	73.5 %	3.98
2006	Average	6.59	3.30	2.00	1.12	.270	1.41	.305	70.9 %	4.53
2007	Pirates (AAA)	9.00	4.50	2.00	2.25	.262	1.50	.292	100.0 %	5.95
2007	Pirates	7.32	3.31	2.21	1.05	.278	1.45	.325	72.5 %	4.28
2007	Average	6.67	3.33	2.00	1.03	.269	1.41	.307	70.7 %	4.47
2008	Pirates	7.34	4.38	1.68	1.07	.219	1.28	.251	85.5 %	4.54
2008	Average	6.83	3.39	2.01	1.01	.265	1.39	.304	71.4 %	4.32
2009	Pirates/Cubs	7.09	4.98	1.43	0.62	.233	1.41	.279	78.6 %	4.20
2009	Pirates	7.80	5.32	1.46	0.76	.244	1.50	.297	80.1 %	4.36
2009	Cubs	5.76	4.32	1.33	0.36	.212	1.24	.248	75.2 %	3.90
2009	Average	6.99	3.46	2.02	1.05	.263	1.39	.303	71.9 %	4.32
2010	Bill James	7.63	4.25	1.79	0.88	.248	1.40	.297		4.17

Batted Ball

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Season	Team	GB/FB	LD%	GB%	FB%	IFFB%	HR/FB	IFH%	BUH%	tRA
Total	- - -	1.29	18.9 %	45.7 %	35.4 %	9.3 %	10.4 %	8.8 %	16.7 %	4.72
2003	Pirates	1.75	15.4 %	53.8 %	30.8 %	0.0 %	0.0 %	14.3 %	0.0 %	0.28
2004	Pirates	1.61	23.8 %	47.0 %	29.2 %	5.6 %	14.8 %	14.9 %	33.3 %	5.25
2005	Pirates	1.44	20.4 %	46.9 %	32.7 %	12.5 %	12.5 %	7.2 %	0.0 %	5.33
2006	Pirates	1.46	17.5 %	49.0 %	33.5 %	9.2 %	10.8 %	8.4 %	10.0 %	4.28
2007	Pirates	1.50	17.2 %	49.7 %	33.1 %	9.6 %	11.5 %	6.4 %	33.3 %	4.50
2008	Pirates	0.98	19.8 %	39.6 %	40.6 %	11.6 %	10.5 %	7.1 %	10.0 %	5.16
2009	Pirates/Cubs	1.05	15.2 %	43.3 %	41.4 %	8.0 %	5.7 %	7.7 %	0.0 %	4.35
2009	Pirates	0.95	15.7 %	41.0 %	43.3 %	5.2 %	6.9 %	10.9 %	0.0 %	4.53
2009	Cubs	1.24	14.5 %	47.4 %	38.2 %	13.8 %	3.4 %	2.8 %	0.0 %	4.01

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Season	Team	GB	FB	LD	IFFB	IFH	BU	BUH	RS	Balls	Strikes	Pitches
Total	- - -	511	396	211	37	45	48	8	192	2381	3871	6252
2003	Pirates	7	4	2	0	1	0	0	4	31	64	95
2004	Pirates	87	54	44	3	13	9	3	31	398	679	1077
2005	Pirates	69	48	30	6	5	6	0	32	297	488	785
2006	Pirates	95	65	34	6	8	10	1	28	399	669	1068
2007	Pirates	78	52	27	5	5	9	3	19	318	528	846
2008	Pirates	84	86	42	10	6	10	1	34	494	731	1225
2009	Pirates/Cubs	91	87	32	7	7	4	0	44	444	712	1156
2009	Pirates	55	58	21	3	6	4	0	30	286	466	752
2009	Cubs	36	29	11	4	1	0	0	14	158	246	404

Win Probability

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Season	Team	WPA	-WPA	+WPA	RE24	REW	pLI	inLI	gmLI	exLI	Pulls	Games	WPA/LI	Clutch
Total	- - -	4.59	-26.52	31.11	25.34	2.64	1.02	0.84	1.18	1.20	340	420	0.32	4.17
2003	Pirates	0.02	-0.08	0.10	-0.57	-0.05	0.23	0.13	0.51	0.45	4	5	0.07	0.01
2004	Pirates	-0.97	-6.14	5.16	-4.25	-0.47	1.02	0.74	1.29	0.91	58	68	-1.00	0.04
2005	Pirates	0.54	-2.90	3.44	6.11	0.60	0.83	0.66	1.12	1.17	55	63	0.51	0.15
2006	Pirates	0.44	-3.50	3.94	4.81	0.51	0.77	0.77	1.12	1.45	55	72	-0.39	0.96
2007	Pirates	0.38	-3.24	3.62	-0.02	0.02	0.99	0.65	1.16	1.10	49	63	-0.07	0.45
2008	Pirates	2.21	-6.16	8.37	16.22	1.66	1.40	1.16	1.34	1.49	56	74	0.58	1.01
2009	Pirates/Cubs	1.98	-4.50	6.48	3.04	0.38	1.09	0.98	1.10	1.12	63	75	0.62	1.19
2009	Pirates	1.06	-3.57	4.63	-0.05	0.07	1.21	1.02	1.14	1.20	41	45	0.10	0.78
2009	Cubs	0.92	-0.93	1.85	3.10	0.31	0.87	0.89	1.03	0.96	22	30	0.52	0.54

Pitch Type

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Season	Team	FB	SL	CT	CB	CH	XX	PO
Total	- - -	46.1% (90.9)	25.1% (83.8)	0.0% (00.0)	0.3% (79.6)	28.5% (83.1)	6.9%	0.1%
2003	Pirates	46.3% (91.1)	37.9% (82.4)		1.1% (76.0)	14.7% (82.4)
2004	Pirates	52.5% (90.8)	31.4% (83.6)		1.7% (80.5)	14.4% (83.8)	17.5%	0.4%
2005	Pirates	53.7% (91.3)	26.3% (84.1)			20.0% (83.3)	11.5%
2006	Pirates	38.8% (91.5)	36.6% (84.0)	0.1% (00.0)	0.2% (79.0)	24.3% (83.6)	4.5%
2007	Pirates	42.4% (91.2)	24.9% (82.9)		0.1% (80.0)	32.6% (82.7)	2.2%	0.1%
2008	Pirates	45.3% (90.8)	15.9% (84.7)			38.9% (83.2)	4.2%
2009	Pirates/Cubs	46.6% (90.2)	17.5% (83.7)			35.9% (82.7)	2.8%
2009	Pirates	46.7% (90.4)	15.4% (84.2)			37.9% (83.0)	2.5%
2009	Cubs	46.5% (89.8)	21.5% (83.0)			32.0% (81.9)	3.2%

Pitch Type Values

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Season	Team	wFB	wSL	wCT	wCB	wCH	wFB/C	wSL/C	wCT/C	wCB/C	wCH/C
Total	- - -	-17.5	8.2	0.0	-1.4	32.4	-0.65	0.56	4.79	-7.18	1.95
2003	Pirates	-0.8	1.0		0.0	0.8	-1.91	2.73		-2.70	5.46
2004	Pirates	-3.1	-5.0		-1.2	2.2	-0.67	-1.80		-8.30	1.75
2005	Pirates	-3.2	3.7			6.4	-0.85	2.02			4.59
2006	Pirates	-4.9	4.6	0.0	-0.1	2.1	-1.23	1.24	4.79	-3.48	0.83
2007	Pirates	-2.4	3.5		0.0	1.9	-0.67	1.68		-2.33	0.70
2008	Pirates	-4.5	1.2			11.0	-0.84	0.66			2.42
2009	Pirates/Cubs	1.4	-0.8			8.0	0.26	-0.41			1.99
2009	Pirates	-3.2	-0.4			7.1	-0.92	-0.33			2.57
2009	Cubs	4.5	-0.4			0.9	2.48	-0.53			0.70

Plate Discipline

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Season	Team	O-Swing%	Z-Swing%	Swing%	O-Contact%	Z-Contact%	Contact%	Zone%	F-Strike%
Total *	- - -	26.8 %	68.4 %	47.4 %	53.8 %	83.0 %	74.7 %	49.5 %	57.5 %
2003	Pirates	29.6 %	52.9 %	42.1 %	38.5 %	88.9 %	72.5 %	53.7 %	59.1 %
2003	Average	22.2 %	68.8 %	46.2 %	51.9 %	87.5 %	79.2 %	51.4 %	58.6 %
2004	Pirates	19.4 %	72.3 %	49.1 %	67.1 %	77.8 %	76.0 %	56.1 %	61.2 %
2004	Average	16.6 %	69.6 %	45.8 %	53.7 %	85.1 %	80.0 %	55.1 %	58.4 %
2005	Pirates	21.6 %	70.9 %	47.5 %	33.3 %	82.8 %	72.1 %	52.5 %	58.1 %
2005	Average	20.3 %	68.0 %	46.0 %	51.8 %	88.3 %	80.8 %	53.8 %	59.1 %
2006	Pirates	29.5 %	69.1 %	49.5 %	47.3 %	82.1 %	71.8 %	50.4 %	57.4 %
2006	Average	23.5 %	66.6 %	46.1 %	57.4 %	88.5 %	81.0 %	52.6 %	58.8 %
2007	Pirates	31.6 %	66.1 %	47.5 %	57.5 %	85.7 %	75.6 %	46.1 %	58.8 %
2007	Average	25.0 %	66.6 %	45.9 %	60.8 %	88.2 %	80.8 %	50.3 %	58.7 %
2008	Pirates	26.2 %	66.2 %	45.4 %	55.4 %	84.1 %	75.5 %	47.9 %	51.6 %
2008	Average	25.4 %	65.4 %	45.9 %	61.7 %	87.8 %	80.8 %	51.1 %	58.6 %
2009	Pirates	29.0 %	67.8 %	46.6 %	58.9 %	86.1 %	76.9 %	45.3 %	58.6 %
2009	Pirates	31.7 %	66.0 %	47.0 %	55.9 %	86.8 %	75.2 %	44.5 %	58.9 %
2009	Average	25.1 %	65.9 %	45.2 %	61.8 %	87.8 %	80.5 %	49.3 %	58.2 %
2009	Cubs	23.8 %	71.0 %	45.9 %	66.7 %	85.0 %	80.0 %	47.0 %	58.1 %

Fielding

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Season	Team	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	FP	RF/G	RF/9
Total	- - -	P	420	388.1	11	57	3	4	.958	0.2	0.0
2003	Pirates	P	5	5.0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.0	0.0
2004	Pirates	P	68	61.2	2	15	0	2	1.000	0.3	2.5
2005	Pirates	P	63	52.0	0	7	1	1	.875	0.1	1.2
2006	Pirates	P	72	69.2	4	13	0	0	1.000	0.2	2.2
2007	Pirates	P	63	51.2	2	4	0	0	1.000	0.1	1.0
2008	Pirates	P	74	76.0	3	9	1	1	.923	0.2	1.4
2009	Pirates/Cubs	P	75	72.1	0	9	1	0	.900	0.1	1.1
2009	Pirates	P	45	47.1	0	8	1	0	.889	0.2	1.5
2009	Cubs	P	30	25.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.4

Value

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Season	Team	Relieving	Relief-IP	RAR	WAR	Dollars	Salary
Total	- - -	14.9	388.1	14.9	1.5	$5.3	$2.9
2003	Pirates	2.2	5.0	2.2	0.2	$0.6
2004	Pirates	4.5	61.2	4.5	0.4	$1.4	$0.3
2005	Pirates	-0.5	52.0	-0.5	0.0	($0.2)	$0.3
2006	Pirates	5.4	69.2	5.4	0.5	$2.0	$0.3
2007	Pirates	2.1	51.2	2.1	0.2	$0.9	$0.8
2008	Pirates	-0.8	76.0	-0.8	-0.1	($0.4)	$1.1
2009	Pirates/Cubs	2.1	72.1	2.1	0.2	$1.0
2009	Pirates	0.1	47.1	0.1	0.0	$0.0
2009	Cubs	1.9	25.0	1.9	0.2	$0.9

Thursday, July 30, 2009

News: The Pirates have traded Grabow and Tom Gorzelanny to the Cubs for Kevin Hart, Jose Ascanio and Josh Harrison, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.

Analysis: Grabow gives the Chicago bullpen a reliable lefty set-up man and acquiring him gives the Cubs the flexibility to move fellow southpaw Sean Marshall to rotation if they so desire.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

News: Grabow could be in line for some save opportunities if closer Matt Capps (elbow) misses any time.

Analysis: Grabow pitched a distinctly mediocre brand of baseball last summer when Capps got hurt. He didn't get much of a chance earlier in May with Capps out, but only because his team lost 12 of 13 games. He could get the job done on a short-term basis, but history suggests that he's better as a set-up man than as a stopper. Hard throwing righthander Jesse Chavez could also get a chance to close, depending upon matchups.

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