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Ervin Santana
- Age
- 39
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 175 lb
- Born
- December 12, 1982 in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic
- MLB debut
- May 17, 2005
- dbWAR
- 23.5 Regular season, 25 season(s)
- IP
- 65.1
- ERA
- 4.68
- FIP
- 4.47
- K/9
- 7.2
- FIP−
- 105 100 = avg
Ervin Santana was a relief pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2021 he struck out 52 batters over 65.1 innings across 38 appearances, going 2-2. His ERA of 4.68 was 9.8% higher than the league average of 4.27 — 9th of 19 on his team, and 366th of 567 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.47 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 24.7% of swings (11.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.8%. 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, 2021 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | KC | 38 | 2 | 65.1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 65 | 34 | 52 | 22 | 4.68 | 4.47 | 1.33 | 7.2 | 3.0 | 110 | 105 | 0.4 | |
| 2019 | CWS | 3 | 3 | 13.1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 9.45 | 9.66 | 1.88 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 210 | 214 | -0.6 | |
| 2018 | MIN | 5 | 5 | 24.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 22 | 16 | 9 | 8.03 | 7.94 | 1.62 | 5.8 | 3.3 | 193 | 191 | -0.8 | |
| 2017 | MIN | 33 | 33 | 211.1 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 177 | 77 | 167 | 61 | 3.28 | 4.46 | 1.13 | 7.1 | 2.6 | 75 | 102 | 2.4 | |
| 2016 | MIN | 30 | 30 | 181.1 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 168 | 68 | 149 | 53 | 3.38 | 3.81 | 1.22 | 7.4 | 2.6 | 81 | 91 | 3.0 | |
| 2015 | MIN | 17 | 17 | 108.0 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 104 | 48 | 82 | 36 | 4.00 | 4.17 | 1.30 | 6.8 | 3.0 | 101 | 105 | 1.0 | |
| 2014 | ATL | 31 | 31 | 196.0 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 193 | 86 | 179 | 63 | 3.95 | 3.39 | 1.31 | 8.2 | 2.9 | 106 | 91 | 3.0 | |
| 2013 | KC | 32 | 32 | 211.0 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 190 | 77 | 161 | 51 | 3.28 | 3.93 | 1.14 | 6.9 | 2.2 | 85 | 102 | 2.4 | |
| 2012 | LAA | 30 | 30 | 178.0 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 165 | 102 | 133 | 61 | 5.16 | 5.63 | 1.27 | 6.7 | 3.1 | 128 | 140 | -1.6 | |
| 2011 | LAA | 33 | 33 | 228.2 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 207 | 86 | 178 | 72 | 3.38 | 4.00 | 1.22 | 7.0 | 2.8 | 86 | 101 | 2.2 | |
| 2010 | LAA | 33 | 33 | 222.2 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 221 | 97 | 169 | 73 | 3.92 | 4.28 | 1.32 | 6.8 | 3.0 | 96 | 105 | 1.8 | |
| 2009 | LAA | 24 | 23 | 139.2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 159 | 78 | 107 | 47 | 5.03 | 5.02 | 1.47 | 6.9 | 3.0 | 116 | 116 | 0.5 | |
| 2008 | LAA | 32 | 32 | 219.0 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 198 | 85 | 214 | 47 | 3.49 | 3.30 | 1.12 | 8.8 | 1.9 | 81 | 76 | 5.1 | |
| 2007 | LAA | 28 | 26 | 150.0 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 174 | 96 | 126 | 58 | 5.76 | 5.13 | 1.55 | 7.6 | 3.5 | 129 | 115 | 0.7 | |
| 2006 | LAA | 33 | 33 | 204.0 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 181 | 97 | 141 | 70 | 4.28 | 4.29 | 1.23 | 6.2 | 3.1 | 95 | 95 | 2.8 | |
| 2005 | LAA | 23 | 23 | 133.2 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 139 | 69 | 99 | 47 | 4.65 | 4.43 | 1.39 | 6.7 | 3.2 | 108 | 103 | 1.3 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | MIN | 3 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .200 | .200 | .300 | .100 | .286 | 0.0% | 30.0% | .214 | -0.9 | 24 | 0.1 | |
| 2016 | MIN | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .000 | -1.5 | -116 | -0.1 | |
| 2014 | ATL | 31 | 73 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 28 | .111 | .138 | .127 | .016 | .200 | 2.7% | 38.4% | .124 | -10.5 | -34 | -0.1 | |
| 2013 | KC | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .000 | .500 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .223 | -0.3 | 33 | 0.0 | |
| 2012 | LAA | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 80.0% | .000 | -1.2 | -126 | -0.1 | |
| 2011 | LAA | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .000 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .448 | +0.2 | 197 | 0.0 | |
| 2008 | LAA | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 33.3% | .000 | -1.6 | -127 | -0.1 | |
| 2007 | LAA | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .200 | .200 | .400 | .200 | .500 | 0.0% | 60.0% | .258 | -0.3 | 46 | 0.0 | |
| 2006 | LAA | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .000 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 75.0% | .224 | -0.4 | 26 | 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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 Post | MIN | Wild Card | 1 | 1 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 18.00 | 2.50 | 0.0 |
| 2009 Post | LAA | ALCS | 4 | 0 | 5.2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 1.59 | 1.59 | 7.9 |
| 2008 Post | LAA | ALDS | 1 | 1 | 5.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8.44 | 1.50 | 5.1 |
| 2007 Post | LAA | ALDS | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.0 |
| 2005 Post | LAA | Postseason total | 2 | 1 | 9.2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 7.45 | 1.34 | 3.7 |
| ALDS | 1 | 0 | 5.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5.06 | 1.31 | 3.4 | ||
| ALCS | 1 | 1 | 4.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10.38 | 1.38 | 4.2 | ||
| Career | Postseason total · 5 Octobers | 9 | 3 | 24.2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 18 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 6.57 | 1.42 | 5.1 |
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 | 116 | 102 | 28 | 7 | 13 | 22 | .275 | .353 | .529 | .373 | 19.0% |
| vs RHB | 161 | 149 | 37 | 2 | 9 | 30 | .248 | .298 | .389 | .300 | 18.6% |
Pitch sequencing
What Ervin Santana 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.
| Slider | 551 | 84.4 | 2,319 | 46.8% | 34.7% | 127 | .165 | .447 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 480 | 93.4 | 2,177 | 42.9% | 14.5% | 114 | .342 | 1.029 | |
| Changeup | 35 | 87.2 | 1,680 | 22.9% | 5.6% | 10 | — | — |
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Nearest 2021 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.