Kwak Bin
곽빈
Doosan's first-round pick in 2018 and, after an arm injury cost him most of his first years, the front of its rotation. The strikeout rate is the story: it puts him among the league's best domestic starters.
A 27-year-old right-handed pitcher for the Doosan Bears, drafted by Doosan in 2018 as its first-round territorial pick. This is his 9th season since a 2018 debut. This season, working mostly in starts: 11–7, a 2.24 ERA over 161.0 innings, 2.81 FIP and 5.27 WAR — 1st of 18 qualified pitchers.
- Born
- 1999-05-28· 27
- Position
- Pitcher
- Bats / throws
- bats right, throws right
- Height · Weight
- 187 cm · 95 kg
- Draft
- Drafted by Doosan in 2018 as its first-round territorial pick
- Debut
- 2018
Path서울학동초자양중배명고
Percentile
Against the league
Percentile against every qualified pitcher in the league this season.
Workload
Pitches / inning
16.5
Pitches / batter
4.12
Fatigue index
118
100 is a league-typical workload. Above it, the arm is doing more work per out than the innings column suggests.
27 G
Pitching line
| IP | 161 | TBF | 647 |
| W | 11 | L | 7 |
| SV | 0 | HLD | 0 |
| H | 129 | HR | 11 |
| BB | 39 | HBP | 5 |
| SO | 197 | NP | 2,664 |
| R | 45 | ER | 40 |
| QS | 20 | BSV | 0 |
| CG | 0 | SHO | 0 |
Advanced
| ERA | 2.24 | FIP | 2.81 |
| E−F | −0.58 | WHIP | 1.04 |
| ERA+ | 208 | FIP+ | 166 |
| K/9 | 11.0 | BB/9 | 2.2 |
| HR/9 | 0.6 | K/BB | 5.05 |
| BABIP | .299 | LOB% | 81% |
| Opp AVG | .216 | WAR | 5.27 |
Nearest neighbours
Closest comparables
Nearest neighbours by standardised rate profile, not by reputation.
| Player | Team | IP | ERA | FIP | K% | BB% | HR/9 | WAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ko Young-pyo | KT | 172 2/3 | 3.28 | 3.21 | 25.9% | 3.1% | 0.8 | 4.94 |
| Jeremy Beasley | Lotte | 147 | 4.96 | 3.72 | 24.1% | 6.7% | 0.8 | 3.41 |
| Adam Oller | KIA | 178 | 3.13 | 3.73 | 25.1% | 8.6% | 0.7 | 4.12 |
| James Naile | KIA | 183 | 3.49 | 3.67 | 20.5% | 5.0% | 0.6 | 4.35 |
| Won Tae-in | Samsung | 145 1/3 | 4.52 | 3.35 | 18.5% | 5.4% | 0.4 | 3.95 |
Pitcher WAR is built from FIP, so it credits strikeouts, walks and home runs and stays neutral on everything the defence touched. Relief innings are not leverage-weighted, which understates a closer.