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Aníbal Sánchez

Washington Nationals National League East

Age: 38
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 207 lb

Born: February 27, 1984 in Maracay, Venezuela
MLB debut: June 25, 2006

dbWAR: 25.2
IP: 69.1
ERA: 4.28
FIP: 5.77
K/9: 6.2
FIP−: 145

Aníbal Sánchez was a starting pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2022 he struck out 48 batters over 69.1 innings across 14 appearances, 14 of them starts, going 4-6. His ERA of 4.28 was 7.9% higher than the league average of 3.97 — 9th of 19 on his team, and 332nd of 546 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.77 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 19.5% of swings (8.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.4%. His -0.6 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, 2022 regular season.

FIP5.77

K/96.2

WHIP1.27

WAR-.6

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2022	WSH	14	14	69.1	4	6	55	33	48	33	4.28	5.77	1.27	6.2	4.3	108	145	-0.6
2020	WSH	11	11	53.0	4	5	70	39	43	18	6.62	5.46	1.66	7.3	3.1	149	123	0.0
2019	WSH	30	30	166.0	11	8	153	71	134	58	3.85	4.44	1.27	7.3	3.1	85	99	2.3
2018	ATL	25	24	136.2	7	6	106	43	135	42	2.83	3.62	1.08	8.9	2.8	68	87	2.6
2017	DET	28	17	105.1	3	7	139	75	104	29	6.41	5.33	1.59	8.9	2.5	147	122	-0.0
2016	DET	35	26	153.1	7	13	171	100	135	53	5.87	5.06	1.46	7.9	3.1	140	121	0.0
2015	DET	25	25	157.0	10	10	152	87	138	49	4.99	4.73	1.28	7.9	2.8	126	119	0.3
2014	DET	22	21	126.0	8	5	108	48	102	30	3.43	2.71	1.10	7.3	2.1	92	72	3.0
2013	DET	29	29	182.0	14	8	156	52	202	54	2.57	2.39	1.15	10.0	2.7	67	62	5.5
2012	MIA/DET	31	31	195.2	9	13	200	84	167	48	3.86	3.53	1.27	7.7	2.2	96	88	3.4
2011	FLA	32	32	196.1	8	9	187	80	202	64	3.67	3.35	1.28	9.3	2.9	93	85	3.6
2010	FLA	32	32	195.0	13	12	192	77	157	70	3.55	3.32	1.34	7.2	3.2	87	81	4.1
2009	FLA	16	16	86.0	4	8	84	37	71	46	3.87	4.60	1.51	7.4	4.8	90	106	0.8
2008	FLA	10	10	51.2	2	5	54	32	50	27	5.57	4.87	1.57	8.7	4.7	129	113	0.3
2007	FLA	6	6	30.0	2	1	43	16	14	19	4.80	5.71	2.07	4.2	5.7	107	128	-0.0
2006	FLA	18	17	114.1	10	3	90	36	72	46	2.83	4.22	1.19	5.7	3.6	63	93	1.6

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2019	WSH	27	56	6	1	0	24	.115	.115	.115	.000	.214	0.0%	42.9%	.101	-10.6	-49	-0.2
2018	ATL	22	44	1	0	1	25	.024	.048	.024	.000	.063	2.3%	56.8%	.038	-10.0	-91	-0.4
2017	DET	1	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-116	-0.0
2016	DET	2	6	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.5	-117	-0.1
2015	DET	2	4	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-1.0	-127	-0.1
2014	DET	2	5	1	1	0	3	.200	.200	.400	.200	.500	0.0%	60.0%	.259	-0.2	61	0.0
2013	DET	3	7	0	0	1	4	.000	.200	.000	.000	—	14.3%	57.1%	.141	-0.9	-23	-0.0
2012	MIA	17	35	3	0	1	18	.100	.129	.167	.067	.250	2.9%	51.4%	.132	-5.1	-28	-0.0
2011	FLA	30	70	7	3	4	23	.123	.180	.123	.000	.206	5.7%	32.9%	.149	-9.3	-18	-0.0
2010	FLA	31	69	6	1	4	28	.102	.159	.102	.000	.194	5.8%	40.6%	.131	-10.6	-34	-0.2
2009	FLA	16	31	0	0	3	8	.000	.115	.000	.000	.000	9.7%	25.8%	.083	-6.3	-67	-0.2
2008	FLA	10	19	0	0	1	7	.000	.056	.000	.000	.000	5.3%	36.8%	.041	-4.6	-101	-0.2
2007	FLA	6	14	1	0	2	7	.091	.231	.091	.000	.250	14.3%	50.0%	.181	-1.8	-5	0.0
2006	FLA	17	38	4	2	0	14	.114	.114	.114	.000	.190	0.0%	36.8%	.103	-7.5	-58	-0.2

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 Aníbal Sánchez's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2019 Post	WSH	Postseason total	3	3	18.0	1	1	15	5	2	4	18	2.50	1.06	9.0
		NLDS	1	1	5.0	0	0	4	1	1	2	9	1.80	1.20	16.2
		NLCS	1	1	7.2	1	0	1	0	0	1	5	0.00	0.26	5.9
		World Series	1	1	5.1	0	1	10	4	1	1	4	6.75	2.06	6.8
2018 Post	ATL	NLDS	1	1	4.2	0	1	5	3	2	1	3	5.79	1.29	5.8
2014 Post	DET	ALDS	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.00	0.00	9.0
2013 Post	DET	Postseason total	3	3	16.1	1	2	17	8	4	8	23	4.41	1.53	12.7
		ALDS	1	1	4.1	0	1	8	5	3	2	6	10.38	2.31	12.5
		ALCS	2	2	12.0	1	1	9	3	1	6	17	2.25	1.25	12.8
2012 Post	DET	Postseason total	3	3	20.1	1	2	14	4	1	6	18	1.77	0.98	8.0
		ALDS	1	1	6.1	0	1	5	2	1	2	3	2.84	1.11	4.3
		ALCS	1	1	7.0	1	0	3	0	0	3	7	0.00	0.86	9.0
		World Series	1	1	7.0	0	1	6	2	0	1	8	2.57	1.00	10.3
Career		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	11	10	61.1	3	6	51	20	9	19	64	2.93	1.14	9.4

Postseason batting

Postseason Aníbal Sánchez's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2019 Post	WSH	Postseason total	3	7	7	5	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	1	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	1	4	4	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
		World Series	1	2	2	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
2018 Post	ATL	NLDS	1	1	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	4	8	8	5	.000	.000	.000	.000

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, 2022. 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	123	111	22	4	11	22	.198	.268	.387	.284	17.9%
vs RHB	169	142	33	9	22	26	.232	.351	.437	.349	15.4%

Pitch sequencing

What Aníbal Sánchez throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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CutterChangeupSinkerFour-seamSliderCurveball

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Pitch arsenal

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

Season


Cutter	27.3%	336	87.2	2,095	43.5%	19.9%	65	.200	.513
Changeup	25.6%	315	79.9	1,470	42.2%	26.9%	90	.200	.730
Sinker	18.4%	227	89.1	1,921	45.4%	7.7%	48	.271	.875
Four-Seam Fastball	17.5%	215	89.8	2,063	40.9%	13.3%	33	.212	.722
Slider	5.7%	70	83.0	2,179	42.9%	40.0%	10	—	—
Curveball	5.6%	69	75.4	1,952	42.0%	5.6%	7	—	—

Aníbal Sánchez'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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Nearest 2022 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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ERA: 4.64
FIP: 5.21
SO: 107
WAR: -0.3

Very close

Tommy HenryAZ

ERA: 5.36
FIP: 5.88
SO: 36
WAR: -0.5

Bryan GarciaDET

ERA: 3.54
FIP: 5.28
SO: 17
WAR: -0.1

Jonathan HeasleyKC

ERA: 5.28
FIP: 5.67
SO: 70
WAR: -0.8

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.