Year	Team	G	IP	W	L	ERA	ERA+	SO	WHIP
2002	KC	34	77.7	3	4	4.64	92	67	1.571
2003	KC	36	126.0	7	6	3.93	112	98	1.302
2004	KC	38	76.3	3	4	4.95	90	49	1.611
2005	KC	49	49.7	0	2	5.26	81	39	1.711
2006	KC	54	97.3	8	8	6.20	73	48	1.613
2007	COL	75	59.0	4	3	3.51	127	46	1.356
2008	CIN	74	78.3	1	1	3.33	130	80	1.315
2009	SF	74	62.3	2	2	1.73	249	55	1.171
2010	SF	53	50.0	4	3	4.14	98	44	1.600
2011	SF	67	61.7	3	2	2.63	150	54	1.151
2012	SF	67	63.3	1	2	2.70	149	57	1.263
2013	SF	39	33.7	1	5	3.74	103	21	1.307
2014	SF	62	55.3	4	2	2.28	164	41	1.102
2015	SF	52	35.3	2	2	5.86	67	21	1.613
Career		774	925.9	43	46	—	—	720	—

Pitch Movement Map

Each pitch type this pitcher throws regularly, placed by how the ball moves — sideways break across, rise or drop down the side. Each dotted ring holds about the middle 85% of the league’s pitches of that type, so a cluster sitting outside its ring is movement most pitchers don’t have.

LHP · 554 pitches · 2015–2015

SI · Sinker67.5% · 91.0 mph

CU · Curveball23.8% · 75.0 mph

CH · Changeup8.7% · 86.7 mph

The dots — a sample of this pitcher’s regular-season pitches, placed by movement: left–right is horizontal break, up–down is induced vertical break (what the pitch does beyond gravity). The view is handedness-neutral — positive break is toward the pitcher’s arm side for lefties and righties alike, so every sinker runs right and every sweeper breaks left, whoever throws it.

The dotted rings — about the middle 85% of where each pitch type lands league-wide (a 2-standard-deviation spread), measured from 7.5 million regular-season pitches since 2015. A cluster sitting well outside its ring is movement most of the league doesn’t get. Spring training and the postseason are excluded.

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