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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: -.1
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.

FIP5.27

K/97.0

WHIP1.65

WAR-.2

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

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2015	CIN	9	9	47.1	3	4	0	64	34	37	14	6.46	5.27	1.65	7.0	2.7	163	133	-0.2	—

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2015	CIN	8	17	3	0	1	0	0	4	.188	.188	.250	.063	.250	0.0%	23.5%	.190	-1.7	10	0.0	—

Platoon splits

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

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.


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.