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Santiago Casilla

Age: 38
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #46

Born: July 25, 1980 in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: August 9, 2004

dbWAR: 5.3
IP: 31.1
ERA: 3.16
FIP: 4.05
K/9: 6.3
FIP−: 98

Santiago Casilla was a relief pitcher for the Oakland Athletics. In 2018 he struck out 22 batters over 31.1 innings across 26 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 3.16 was 23.9% lower than the league average of 4.15 — 6th of 21 on his team, and 122nd of 530 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.05 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 23.9% of swings (9.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 15.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.7%. His 0.2 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, 2018 regular season.

FIP4.05

K/96.3

WHIP1.21

WAR.2

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 2005–2018; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2018	OAK	26	31.1	0	0	1	18	11	22	20	3.16	4.05	1.21	6.3	5.7	76	98	0.2
2017	OAK	63	59.0	4	5	16	58	28	57	22	4.27	4.41	1.36	8.7	3.4	98	101	0.4
2016	SF	62	58.0	2	5	31	50	23	65	19	3.57	3.94	1.19	10.1	2.9	85	94	0.5
2015	SF	67	58.0	4	2	38	51	18	62	23	2.79	3.63	1.28	9.6	3.6	71	92	0.5
2014	SF	54	58.1	3	3	19	35	11	45	15	1.70	3.18	0.86	6.9	2.3	45	85	0.7
2013	SF	57	50.0	7	2	2	39	12	38	25	2.16	3.67	1.28	6.8	4.5	56	95	0.4
2012	SF	73	63.1	7	6	25	55	20	55	22	2.84	4.14	1.22	7.8	3.1	71	103	0.2
2011	SF	49	51.2	2	2	6	33	10	45	25	1.74	3.10	1.12	7.8	4.4	44	79	0.7
2010	SF	52	55.1	7	2	2	40	12	56	26	1.95	3.15	1.19	9.1	4.2	48	77	0.9
2009	OAK	46	48.1	1	2	0	61	32	35	25	5.96	5.00	1.78	6.5	4.7	138	116	-0.1
2008	OAK	51	50.1	2	1	2	60	22	43	20	3.93	4.09	1.59	7.7	3.6	91	94	0.4
2007	OAK	46	50.2	3	1	2	43	25	52	23	4.44	4.15	1.30	9.2	4.1	99	93	0.4
2006	OAK	2	2.1	0	0	0	2	3	2	2	11.57	4.00	1.71	7.7	7.7	256	88	0.0
2005	OAK	3	3.0	0	0	0	2	1	1	1	3.00	3.35	1.00	3.0	3.0	70	78	0.1

Batting Regular season


2014	SF	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.2	-124	-0.0
2012	SF	3	3	1	1	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.000	.500	0.0%	33.3%	.295	-0.1	91	0.0
2011	SF	1	1	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	—	—	100.0%	0.0%	.709	+0.3	397	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

Postseason Santiago Casilla's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	W	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2016 Post	SF	NLDS	1	0.2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.00	3.00	0.0
2014 Post	SF	Postseason total	9	7.1	0	4	2	0	3	7	0.00	0.68	8.6
		NLDS	3	3.0	0	2	0	0	1	2	0.00	0.33	6.0
		NLCS	4	3.2	0	2	2	0	2	3	0.00	1.09	7.4
		World Series	2	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.00	0.00	27.0
2012 Post	SF	Postseason total	11	7.0	1	0	8	1	1	8	1.29	1.29	10.3
		NLDS	5	3.1	0	0	6	1	1	5	2.70	2.10	13.5
		NLCS	4	2.1	0	0	2	0	0	3	0.00	0.86	11.6
		World Series	2	1.1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.0
2010 Post	SF	Postseason total	4	4.2	0	0	3	1	1	5	1.93	0.86	9.6
		NLDS	1	1.2	0	0	1	0	0	2	0.00	0.60	10.8
		NLCS	2	1.2	0	0	2	1	1	2	5.40	1.80	10.8
		World Series	1	1.1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.00	6.8
2005–2018		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	25	19.2	1	4	15	2	5	20	0.92	1.02	9.2

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.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2018. 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	64	54	9	0	8	14	.167	.281	.222	.242	21.9%
vs RHB	67	52	9	0	11	8	.173	.343	.231	.284	11.9%

Pitch sequencing

What Santiago Casilla 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.

Season


Sinker	31.9%	159	92.7	2,373	40.9%	22.5%	36	.222	.750
Knuckle Curve	28.3%	141	79.7	2,404	43.3%	34.5%	34	.088	.313
Four-Seam Fastball	23.2%	116	93.2	2,344	41.4%	12.8%	25	.200	.526
Slider	10.2%	51	88.8	2,405	31.4%	26.7%	7	—	—
Changeup	6.4%	32	85.8	2,145	28.1%	20.0%	4	—	—

Santiago Casilla'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.