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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

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dbWAR
39.7
Regular season, 2005–2015 only
IP
187.1
ERA
3.60
FIP
4.61
K/9
6.3
FIP−
116
100 = avg

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 regular season.

FIP4.61
K/96.3
WHIP1.13
WAR.7

WAR by season

5.93.00.00506070809101112131415

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 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2015MIA/CHC3232187.1119017475132383.604.611.136.31.8911160.7
2014LAD3232186.01311018383145364.024.091.187.01.71071091.2
2013WSH3130169.21014117988151314.674.091.248.01.61211061.5
2012LAA3030176.21213019085142384.334.241.297.21.91081061.3
2011LAA3534238.11610021184192333.172.981.027.31.280765.2
2010AZ/LAA3535235.012120245102216543.913.711.278.32.196913.8
2009AZ3333229.11410019280223383.143.231.008.81.573755.8
2008AZ3333216.0168020480206403.333.011.138.61.777705.9
2007OAK3434222.2159021476192553.073.701.217.82.269834.2
2006OAK3434223.014130224102176454.124.121.217.11.891913.5
2005OAK3434217.01412021290163533.733.891.226.82.287913.6

Batting 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 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2015MIA/CHC30656050516.122.200.143.020.1767.7%24.6%.168-7.7-50.1
2014LAD296010050320.185.228.204.019.2945.0%33.3%.201-5.1210.3
2013WSH27558020117.170.204.234.064.2671.8%30.9%.200-5.0170.2
2012LAA37000002.000.000.000.000.0000.0%28.6%.000-1.7-126-0.1
2011LAA24101001.333.333.333.000.5000.0%25.0%.298-0.1890.0
2010AZ22572017019.364.375.527.164.4221.8%15.8%.398+3.31481.1
2009AZ3587181100322.247.269.356.110.3273.4%25.3%.275-4.1580.7
2008AZ338516060315.211.237.303.092.2583.5%17.6%.241-6.4360.5
2007OAK14000001.000.000.000.000.0000.0%25.0%.000-1.1-134-0.0
2006OAK37000002.000.000.000.000.0000.0%28.6%.000-2.0-128-0.1
2005OAK25202000.400.400.600.200.4000.0%0.0%.435+0.41680.1

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 Dan Haren's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2006 PostOAKPostseason total2211.01001652394.091.737.4
ALDS116.0100921123.001.673.0
ALCS115.0000731275.401.8012.6

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.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB36333693202165.277.323.533.36817.9%
vs RHB40537381111767.217.259.365.27316.5%

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.

—————3 AB—2 AB—1 AB—4 AB.36411 AB—5 AB—3 AB—3 AB—2 AB
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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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CutterFour-seamKnuckle curveSinkerSplitter

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Cutter40.9%1,18883.31,27244.4%17.9%290.241.690
Four-Seam Fastball30.0%87186.02,10444.4%9.8%230.235.741
Knuckle Curve14.1%41176.396345.5%23.6%83.289.840
Sinker11.2%32685.32,02143.6%9.2%77.221.683
Splitter3.5%10281.11,22633.3%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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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.