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Jason Marquis

Age: 37
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #21

Born: August 21, 1978 in Manhasset, NY, United States
MLB debut: June 6, 2000

dbWAR: 8.0
IP: 47.1
ERA: 6.46
FIP: 5.27
K/9: 7.0
FIP−: 133

Jason Marquis was a starting pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2015 he struck out 37 batters over 47.1 innings across 9 appearances, 9 of them starts, going 3-4. His ERA of 6.46 was 63.2% higher than the league average of 3.96 — 17th of 20 on his team, and 486th of 513 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.27 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 21.6% of swings (10.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.1%. His -0.2 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, 2015 regular season.

FIP5.27

K/97.0

WHIP1.65

WAR-.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2015; his career began in 2000, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2015	CIN	9	9	47.1	3	4	64	34	37	14	6.46	5.27	1.65	7.0	2.7	163	133	-0.2
2013	SD	20	20	117.2	9	5	111	53	72	68	4.05	5.65	1.52	5.5	5.2	105	146	-1.3
2012	SD/MIN	22	22	127.2	8	11	146	74	91	42	5.22	5.09	1.47	6.4	3.0	130	127	-0.3
2011	WSH/AZ	23	23	132.0	8	6	154	65	76	43	4.43	4.05	1.49	5.2	2.9	112	103	1.3
2010	WSH	13	13	58.2	2	9	76	43	31	24	6.60	5.65	1.70	4.8	3.7	162	139	-0.4
2009	COL	33	33	216.0	15	13	218	97	115	80	4.04	4.10	1.38	4.8	3.3	94	95	3.4
2008	CHC	29	28	167.0	11	9	172	84	91	70	4.53	4.61	1.45	4.9	3.8	105	107	1.5
2007	CHC	34	33	191.2	12	9	190	98	109	76	4.60	4.99	1.39	5.1	3.6	103	111	1.4
2006	STL	33	33	194.1	14	16	221	130	96	75	6.02	5.90	1.52	4.4	3.5	133	130	-0.7
2005	STL	33	32	207.0	13	14	206	95	100	69	4.13	4.95	1.33	4.3	3.0	96	115	0.9

Batting Regular season


2015	CIN	8	17	3	0	1	0	4	.188	.188	.250	.063	.250	0.0%	23.5%	.190	-1.7	10	0.0
2013	SD	20	43	5	0	2	0	12	.119	.119	.143	.024	.167	0.0%	27.9%	.116	-6.6	-43	-0.1
2012	SD	14	36	9	0	1	0	12	.281	.303	.375	.094	.450	0.0%	33.3%	.300	-0.5	90	0.5
2011	WSH/AZ	22	49	8	0	3	0	14	.174	.174	.196	.022	.250	0.0%	28.6%	.164	-5.9	-8	-0.0
2010	WSH	14	24	3	0	2	0	2	.136	.136	.182	.045	.150	0.0%	8.3%	.140	-3.5	-28	-0.1
2009	COL	32	75	11	0	8	2	14	.172	.197	.219	.047	.220	2.7%	18.7%	.189	-8.8	2	0.2
2008	CHC	32	66	12	2	10	3	17	.203	.242	.356	.153	.250	4.5%	25.8%	.265	-3.7	53	0.6
2007	CHC	36	77	10	1	4	1	24	.139	.151	.222	.083	.191	1.3%	31.2%	.165	-11.0	-15	-0.1
2006	STL	43	85	14	0	5	2	14	.179	.210	.256	.077	.219	2.4%	16.5%	.209	-9.1	15	0.2
2005	STL	41	91	27	1	10	2	11	.310	.326	.460	.149	.347	2.2%	12.1%	.344	+1.0	108	1.2

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Jason Marquis's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2009 Post	COL	NLDS	1	1.0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0.00	1.00	0.0
2008 Post	CHC	NLDS	1	1.0	0	1	1	1	0	1	9.00	1.00	9.0
2005 Post	STL	NLCS	3	5.1	1	6	2	0	3	4	3.38	1.69	6.8
2005–2015		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	5	7.1	1	8	3	1	3	5	3.68	1.50	6.1

Postseason batting

Postseason Jason Marquis's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2005 Post	STL	NLCS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2015. 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	111	100	31	2	6	19	.310	.336	.430	.323	17.1%
vs RHB	105	94	33	8	8	18	.351	.408	.670	.461	17.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2015.

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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 .254.

Pitch sequencing

What Jason Marquis 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	58.6%	459	87.7	2,043	41.2%	10.3%	101	.396	1.101
Changeup	20.9%	164	78.2	1,208	42.7%	34.7%	52	.269	.702
Slider	19.2%	150	82.0	685	43.3%	32.1%	42	.238	.677

Jason Marquis'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 2015 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Mike FoltynewiczATL

ERA: 5.71
FIP: 5.05
SO: 77
WAR: -0.2

Very close

Matt CainSF

ERA: 5.79
FIP: 5.54
SO: 41
WAR: -0.6

Jeremy GuthrieKC

ERA: 5.95
FIP: 5.61
SO: 84
WAR: -1.4

Jerome WilliamsPHI

ERA: 5.80
FIP: 5.24
SO: 74
WAR: -0.7

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.