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Mark Buehrle

Age: 36
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 240 lb
Number: #56

Born: March 23, 1979 in St. Charles, MO, United States
MLB debut: July 16, 2000

dbWAR: 27.4
IP: 198.2
ERA: 3.81
FIP: 4.26
K/9: 4.1
FIP−: 108

Mark Buehrle was a starting pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2015 he struck out 91 batters over 198.2 innings across 32 appearances, 32 of them starts, going 15-8. His ERA of 3.81 was 3.9% lower than the league average of 3.96 — 9th of 14 on his team, and 241st of 513 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.26 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 11.9% of swings (5.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 4.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 11.0%. His 1.5 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.

FIP4.26

K/94.1

WHIP1.24

WAR1.5

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	TOR	32	32	198.2	15	8	214	84	91	33	3.81	4.26	1.24	4.1	1.5	96	108	1.5
2014	TOR	32	32	202.0	13	10	228	76	119	46	3.39	3.66	1.36	5.3	2.0	91	98	2.6
2013	TOR	33	33	203.2	12	10	223	94	139	51	4.15	4.10	1.35	6.1	2.3	107	106	1.9
2012	MIA	31	31	202.1	13	13	197	84	125	40	3.74	4.18	1.17	5.6	1.8	93	104	1.9
2011	CWS	31	31	205.1	13	9	221	82	109	45	3.59	3.98	1.30	4.8	2.0	91	101	2.3
2010	CWS	33	33	210.1	13	13	246	100	99	49	4.28	3.90	1.40	4.2	2.1	105	96	3.1
2009	CWS	33	33	213.1	13	10	222	91	105	45	3.84	4.46	1.25	4.4	1.9	89	103	2.3
2008	CWS	34	34	218.2	15	12	240	92	140	52	3.79	3.94	1.34	5.8	2.1	88	91	3.7
2007	CWS	30	30	201.0	10	9	208	81	115	45	3.63	4.26	1.26	5.1	2.0	81	95	2.9
2006	CWS	32	32	204.0	12	13	247	113	98	48	4.99	5.27	1.45	4.3	2.1	110	117	0.8
2005	CWS	33	33	236.2	16	8	240	82	149	40	3.12	3.42	1.18	5.7	1.5	73	80	5.2

Batting Regular season


2015	TOR	4	9	1	0	0	1	3	.143	.250	.143	.000	.250	11.1%	33.3%	.199	-0.8	18	0.0
2013	TOR	2	4	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	25.0%	.000	-1.0	-118	-0.1
2012	MIA	30	71	3	0	1	0	29	.045	.045	.060	.015	.079	0.0%	40.8%	.046	-15.2	-88	-0.6
2011	CWS	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	1.000	.500	1.000	0.0%	50.0%	.643	+0.5	323	0.1
2010	CWS	2	6	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.5	-120	-0.1
2009	CWS	2	5	1	1	1	0	1	.250	.250	1.000	.750	.000	0.0%	20.0%	.515	+0.7	220	0.1
2008	CWS	2	8	1	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.000	.333	0.0%	37.5%	.149	-1.2	-25	-0.0
2007	CWS	2	6	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	66.7%	.000	-1.7	-124	-0.1
2006	CWS	2	5	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	20.0%	.000	-1.4	-123	-0.1
2005	CWS	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.8	-124	-0.0

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 Mark Buehrle's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2008 Post	CWS	ALDS	1	1	7.0	0	1	0	10	5	1	0	3	6.43	1.43	3.9
2005 Post	CWS	Postseason total	4	3	23.1	2	0	1	20	9	2	1	12	3.47	0.90	4.6
		ALDS	1	1	7.0	1	0	0	8	4	0	1	2	5.14	1.29	2.6
		ALCS	1	1	9.0	1	0	0	5	1	1	0	4	1.00	0.56	4.0
		World Series	2	1	7.1	0	0	1	7	4	1	0	6	4.91	0.95	7.4
2005–2015		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	5	4	30.1	2	1	1	30	14	3	1	15	4.15	1.02	4.5

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	215	203	59	8	8	21	.291	.321	.473	.345	9.8%
vs RHB	612	565	155	14	25	70	.274	.307	.428	.317	11.4%

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 Mark Buehrle 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


Four-Seam Fastball	26.3%	743	83.9	1,317	47.5%	9.4%	173	.283	.769
Sinker	24.4%	690	82.9	1,641	39.6%	9.9%	225	.271	.745
Changeup	21.0%	595	78.2	1,588	36.6%	17.5%	197	.254	.681
Cutter	19.4%	549	79.4	784	42.1%	11.3%	120	.333	.868
Curveball	8.5%	241	71.2	973	40.2%	9.7%	54	.259	.643
Intentional Ball	0.4%	11	70.7	977	0.0%	—	0	—	—

Mark Buehrle'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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Nearest 2015 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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FIP: 4.32
SO: 61
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SO: 119
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WAR: 2.3

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.