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Dan Haren

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #15

Born: September 17, 1980 in Monterey Park, CA, United States
MLB debut: June 30, 2003

dbWAR: .7
IP: 187.1
ERA: 3.60
FIP: 4.61
K/9: 6.3
FIP−: 116

Dan Haren was a starting pitcher for the Miami Marlins. In 2015 he struck out 132 batters over 187.1 innings across 32 appearances, 32 of them starts, going 11-9. His ERA of 3.60 was 9.1% lower than the league average of 3.96 — 9th of 20 on his team, and 203rd of 513 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.61 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 15.7% of swings (7.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 4.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.2%. His 0.7 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.

FIP4.61

K/96.3

WHIP1.13

WAR.7

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2015	MIA/CHC	32	32	187.1	11	9	0	174	75	132	38	3.60	4.61	1.13	6.3	1.8	91	116	0.7	—

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2015	MIA/CHC	30	65	6	0	5	0	5	16	.122	.200	.143	.020	.176	7.7%	24.6%	.168	-7.7	-5	0.1	—

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	363	336	93	20	21	65	.277	.323	.533	.368	17.9%
vs RHB	405	373	81	11	17	67	.217	.259	.365	.273	16.5%

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 Dan Haren 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.


Cutter	40.9%	1,188	83.3	1,272	44.4%	17.9%	290	.241	.690
Four-Seam Fastball	30.0%	871	86.0	2,104	44.4%	9.8%	230	.235	.741
Knuckle Curve	14.1%	411	76.3	963	45.5%	23.6%	83	.289	.840
Sinker	11.2%	326	85.3	2,021	43.6%	9.2%	77	.221	.683
Splitter	3.5%	102	81.1	1,226	33.3%	25.5%	31	.290	.839

Dan Haren'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.

Wei-Yin ChenBAL

ERA: 3.34
FIP: 4.16
SO: 153
WAR: 2.0

Very close

Adam MorganPHI

ERA: 4.48
FIP: 4.88
SO: 49
WAR: 0.1

Daniel NorrisDET

ERA: 3.75
FIP: 4.63
SO: 45
WAR: 0.2

Matt ShoemakerLAA

ERA: 4.46
FIP: 4.59
SO: 116
WAR: 0.4

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.