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Shawn Estes

Age: 35
B/T: R/L
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #55

Born: February 18, 1973 in San Bernardino, CA, United States
MLB debut: September 16, 1995

dbWAR: .7
IP: 43.2
ERA: 4.74
FIP: 5.42
K/9: 3.9
FIP−: 125

Shawn Estes was a starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2008 he struck out 19 batters over 43.2 innings across 9 appearances, 8 of them starts, going 2-3. His ERA of 4.74 was 9.6% higher than the league average of 4.32 — 12th of 19 on his team, and 305th of 482 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.42 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 18.8% of swings (7.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 9.6%. His -0.1 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, 2008 regular season.

FIP5.42

K/93.9

WHIP1.56

WAR-.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2008; his career began in 1995, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2008	SD	9	8	43.2	2	3	50	23	19	18	4.74	5.42	1.56	3.9	3.7	110	125	-0.1
2006	SD	1	1	6.0	0	1	5	3	4	3	4.50	3.81	1.33	6.0	4.5	99	84	0.1
2005	AZ	21	21	123.2	7	8	132	66	63	45	4.80	4.77	1.43	4.6	3.3	112	111	0.8

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2008; his career began in 1995, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2008	SD	8	14	2	0	0	3	.222	.222	.333	.111	.333	0.0%	21.4%	.243	-1.0	41	0.1
2006	SD	1	2	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.000	.000	50.0%	0.0%	.365	+0.0	124	0.0
2005	AZ	16	31	2	1	0	7	.069	.069	.138	.069	.091	0.0%	22.6%	.088	-6.2	-64	-0.2

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2008. 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	48	41	8	1	7	8	.195	.313	.293	.288	16.7%
vs RHB	150	135	42	5	11	11	.311	.372	.481	.379	7.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2008.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2008.

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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 .263.

Pitch sequencing

What Shawn Estes 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


Sinker	52.5%	392	88.9	2,219	35.7%	13.9%	103	.272	.682
Four-Seam Fastball	18.9%	141	89.0	2,361	35.5%	11.1%	33	.303	.937
Changeup	14.2%	106	82.5	1,864	37.7%	40.8%	26	.269	.905
Curveball	9.9%	74	72.6	1,039	36.5%	31.3%	10	—	—
Unknown	4.4%	33	—	—	30.3%	15.4%	5	—	—

Shawn Estes'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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Similar players

Nearest 2008 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Chris WatersBAL

ERA: 5.01
FIP: 5.41
SO: 33
WAR: -0.0

Very close

Josh BanksSD

ERA: 4.75
FIP: 5.18
SO: 43
WAR: -0.0

Very close

Kyle KendrickPHI

ERA: 5.49
FIP: 5.55
SO: 68
WAR: -0.3

Very close

Matt HarrisonTEX

ERA: 5.49
FIP: 5.18
SO: 42
WAR: 0.3

Very close

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.