Players · B · Pitcher · 2016 regular season
Sean Burnett
- Age
- 34
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 185 lb
- Born
- September 17, 1982 in Dunedin, FL, United States
- MLB debut
- May 30, 2004
- dbWAR
- 2.6 Regular season, 2008–2016 only
- IP
- 5.2
- ERA
- 3.18
- FIP
- 4.91
- K/9
- 4.8
- FIP−
- 117 100 = avg
Sean Burnett was a relief pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2016 he struck out 3 batters over 5.2 innings across 10 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 3.18 was 24.2% lower than the league average of 4.19. Stripping out defence, his 4.91 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 13.5% of swings (5.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 4.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.6%. His -0.0 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, 2016 regular season.
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 2008–2016; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | WSH | 10 | 0 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3.18 | 4.91 | 1.06 | 4.8 | 1.6 | 76 | 117 | -0.0 | |
| 2014 | LAA | 3 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13.50 | 3.13 | 1.50 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 361 | 84 | 0.0 | |
| 2013 | LAA | 13 | 0 | 9.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 0.93 | 4.19 | 1.34 | 6.5 | 3.7 | 24 | 108 | 0.0 | |
| 2012 | WSH | 70 | 0 | 56.2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 58 | 15 | 57 | 12 | 2.38 | 2.79 | 1.24 | 9.1 | 1.9 | 59 | 70 | 1.2 | |
| 2011 | WSH | 69 | 0 | 56.2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 54 | 24 | 33 | 21 | 3.81 | 4.51 | 1.32 | 5.2 | 3.3 | 97 | 114 | -0.1 | |
| 2010 | WSH | 73 | 0 | 63.0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 52 | 15 | 62 | 20 | 2.14 | 2.73 | 1.14 | 8.9 | 2.9 | 53 | 67 | 1.3 | |
| 2009 | PIT/WSH | 71 | 0 | 57.2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 36 | 20 | 43 | 28 | 3.12 | 4.57 | 1.11 | 6.7 | 4.4 | 72 | 106 | 0.2 | |
| 2008 | PIT | 58 | 0 | 57.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 57 | 30 | 43 | 34 | 4.74 | 5.11 | 1.60 | 6.8 | 5.4 | 110 | 118 | -0.2 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2008–2016; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 Post | WSH | NLDS | 2 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 27.00 | 4.00 | 9.0 |
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 | 14 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .143 | .143 | .357 | .211 | 14.3% |
| vs RHB | 8 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .429 | .500 | .714 | .513 | 12.5% |
Pitch sequencing
What Sean Burnett 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.
| Sinker | 57 | 88.0 | 2,106 | 54.4% | 6.9% | 18 | .222 | .763 | |
| Slider | 21 | 78.5 | 562 | 38.1% | 33.3% | 2 | — | — | |
| Changeup | 10 | 82.3 | 1,843 | 20.0% | 50.0% | 1 | — | — |
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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.