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Sean Marshall

Age
32
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 7"
Weight
225 lb
Number
#45
Born
August 30, 1982 in Richmond, VA, United States
MLB debut
April 9, 2006

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dbWAR
8.7
Regular season, 14 season(s)
IP
14.0
ERA
7.71
FIP
5.06
K/9
9.0
FIP−
135
100 = avg

Sean Marshall was a relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2014 he struck out 14 batters over 14.0 innings across 15 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 7.71 was 106.2% higher than the league average of 3.74. Stripping out defence, his 5.06 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 25.9% of swings (11.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 15.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.5%. 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, 2014 regular season.

FIP5.06
K/99.0
WHIP2.50
WAR-.2

WAR by season

2.31.1-0.2060708091011121314

Pitching Regular season

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

Trend
2014CIN15014.0000231214127.715.062.509.07.7206135-0.2
2013CIN16010.1010421021.741.980.588.71.745510.3
2012CIN73061.0559551774162.512.241.1610.92.462561.7
2011CHC78075.2665661979172.261.861.109.42.057472.3
2010CHC80074.2751582290252.652.281.1110.83.065562.1
2009CHC55985.1370914168324.324.191.447.23.4100970.8
2008CHC34765.1351602858233.864.391.278.03.2891010.4
2007CHC2119103.17801074567353.924.621.375.83.0881031.1
2006CHC2424125.26901327877595.595.571.525.54.21231230.1

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2010CHC44000004.000.000.000.000—0.0%100.0%.000-1.0-119-0.1
2009CHC915302015.231.286.231.000.3756.7%33.3%.245-1.1380.1
2008CHC1015501007.333.333.333.000.6250.0%46.7%.299-0.4750.2
2007CHC16343000113.103.133.138.034.1882.9%38.2%.127-5.9-39-0.1
2006CHC22435120019.125.125.200.075.2000.0%44.2%.140-7.1-31-0.0

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 Sean Marshall's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2013 PostCINWild Card100.000011020———
2012 PostCINNLDS304.0000000030.000.006.8
2008 PostCHCNLDS203.1000211152.700.9013.5
CareerPostseason total · 3 Octobers607.1000321382.450.829.8

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, 2014. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB312411065.458.567.542.49616.1%
vs RHB494112169.293.408.463.39418.4%

Pitch sequencing

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

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CurveballSliderSinkerFour-seam

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Pitch arsenal

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

Curveball35.9%10773.31,76149.5%32.0%25.280.760
Slider35.2%10582.169941.9%22.6%21.5241.457
Sinker17.1%5187.71,64141.2%20.0%9——
Four-Seam Fastball11.7%3587.01,28840.0%23.5%10——
Sean Marshall'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.