Players · C · Pitcher · 2008 regular season
Shawn Chacon
- Age
- 31
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 220 lb
- Born
- December 23, 1977 in Anchorage, AK, United States
- MLB debut
- April 29, 2001
- dbWAR
- -.6 Regular season, 2005–2008 only
- IP
- 85.2
- ERA
- 5.04
- FIP
- 5.83
- K/9
- 5.6
- FIP−
- 135 100 = avg
Shawn Chacon was a starting pitcher for the Houston Astros. In 2008 he struck out 53 batters over 85.2 innings across 15 appearances, 15 of them starts, going 2-3. His ERA of 5.04 was 16.6% higher than the league average of 4.32 — 11th of 14 on his team, and 340th of 482 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.83 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 19.4% of swings (8.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.2%. His -0.4 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.
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 2005–2008; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2008; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 Post | NYY | ALDS | 1 | 1 | 6.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2.84 | 0.79 | 7.1 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 176 | 152 | 41 | 6 | 23 | 21 | .270 | .364 | .480 | .371 | 11.9% |
| vs RHB | 199 | 175 | 47 | 10 | 18 | 32 | .269 | .344 | .497 | .365 | 16.1% |
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.
Pitch sequencing
What Shawn Chacon 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 | 478 | 87.7 | 2,144 | 37.4% | 11.0% | 125 | .304 | .908 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 438 | 88.7 | 1,942 | 39.5% | 16.0% | 90 | .233 | .741 | |
| Slider | 164 | 82.2 | 545 | 37.8% | 41.3% | 44 | .273 | .713 | |
| Curveball | 140 | 75.0 | 1,342 | 37.9% | 28.3% | 32 | .219 | .681 | |
| Changeup | 92 | 80.1 | 1,288 | 37.0% | 27.5% | 20 | .250 | .950 | |
| Unknown | 85 | — | — | 31.8% | 17.2% | 18 | .278 | 1.185 |
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Nearest 2008 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.