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Tom Shearn

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 230 lb

Born: August 28, 1977 in Columbus, OH, United States
MLB debut: August 26, 2007

dbWAR: -.6
IP: 32.2
ERA: 4.96
FIP: 6.64
K/9: 4.4
FIP−: 148

Tom Shearn was a starting pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2007 he struck out 16 batters over 32.2 innings across 7 appearances, 6 of them starts, going 3-0. His ERA of 4.96 was 10.9% higher than the league average of 4.47 — 9th of 18 on his team, and 318th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.64 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 11.0% of swings (4.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 11.7%. 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, 2007 regular season.

FIP6.64

K/94.4

WHIP1.38

WAR-.4

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

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2007	CIN	7	6	32.2	3	0	0	32	18	16	13	4.96	6.64	1.38	4.4	3.6	111	148	-0.4	—

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

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2007	CIN	5	13	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.083	.000	.000	.000	7.7%	30.8%	.060	-3.0	-84	-0.1	—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2007. 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	56	50	10	2	5	9	.200	.268	.380	.287	16.1%
vs RHB	81	72	22	6	8	7	.306	.375	.611	.424	8.6%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2007.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2007.

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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 .266.

Pitch sequencing

What Tom Shearn 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.


Fastball	49.0%	257	87.9	2,383	44.7%	8.2%	61	.262	.905
Curveball	15.0%	79	69.1	1,545	39.2%	18.2%	25	.200	.640
Slider	13.7%	72	81.1	925	31.9%	15.6%	18	.333	.817
Cutter	9.3%	49	87.1	2,410	32.7%	7.1%	4	—	—
Changeup	7.8%	41	80.7	2,024	31.7%	10.5%	8	—	—
Unknown	4.8%	25	—	—	36.0%	10.0%	6	—	—

Tom Shearn'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 2007 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Esteban LoaizaLAD

ERA: 5.79
FIP: 7.34
SO: 20
WAR: -0.7

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ERA: 5.60
FIP: 6.28
SO: 11
WAR: -0.2

Mike BacsikWSH

ERA: 5.11
FIP: 6.23
SO: 45
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ERA: 5.27
FIP: 6.07
SO: 49
WAR: -0.5

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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.