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Shaun Marcum

Cleveland Indians American League Central

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #28

Born: December 14, 1981 in Kansas City, MO, United States
MLB debut: September 6, 2005

dbWAR: 10.8
IP: 35.0
ERA: 5.40
FIP: 5.79
K/9: 7.7
FIP−: 146

Shaun Marcum was a starting pitcher for the Cleveland Indians. In 2015 he struck out 30 batters over 35.0 innings across 7 appearances, 6 of them starts, going 3-2. His ERA of 5.40 was 36.3% higher than the league average of 3.96 — the second worst on his team, and 436th of 513 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.79 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 27.0% of swings (11.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.1%. His -0.3 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, 2015 regular season.

FIP5.79

K/97.7

WHIP1.23

WAR-.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2015	CLE	7	6	35.0	3	2	0	32	21	30	11	5.40	5.79	1.23	7.7	2.8	136	146	-0.3
2013	NYM	14	12	78.1	1	10	0	85	46	60	21	5.29	3.64	1.35	6.9	2.4	137	94	1.0
2012	MIL	21	21	124.0	7	4	0	116	51	109	41	3.70	4.10	1.27	7.9	3.0	92	102	1.4
2011	MIL	33	33	200.2	13	7	0	175	79	158	57	3.54	3.73	1.16	7.1	2.6	90	95	2.9
2010	TOR	31	31	195.1	13	8	0	181	79	165	43	3.64	3.74	1.15	7.6	2.0	89	92	3.1
2008	TOR	25	25	151.1	9	7	0	126	57	123	50	3.39	4.46	1.16	7.3	3.0	78	103	1.5
2007	TOR	38	25	159.0	12	6	1	149	73	122	49	4.13	4.93	1.25	6.9	2.8	92	110	0.7
2006	TOR	21	14	78.1	3	4	0	87	44	65	38	5.06	5.42	1.60	7.5	4.4	112	120	0.0
2005	TOR	5	0	8.0	0	0	0	6	0	4	4	0.00	3.52	1.25	4.5	4.5	0	82	0.1

Batting Regular season

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


2013	NYM	14	27	3	0	0	0	5	.136	.174	.182	.045	.176	0.0%	18.5%	.165	-3.2	-7	0.0
2012	MIL	21	44	4	0	1	3	14	.105	.171	.132	.026	.167	6.8%	31.8%	.147	-5.9	-17	-0.0
2011	MIL	31	76	9	1	6	4	21	.153	.219	.237	.085	.216	5.3%	27.6%	.213	-6.3	26	0.3
2010	TOR	2	6	1	0	1	1	2	.250	.400	.500	.250	.500	16.7%	33.3%	.403	+0.4	151	0.1
2008	TOR	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-129	-0.0
2007	TOR	2	5	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.200	.000	.000	.000	20.0%	40.0%	.145	-0.8	-30	-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 Shaun Marcum's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2011 Post	MIL	Postseason total	3	3	9.2	3	17	16	3	5	5	14.90	2.28	4.7
		NLDS	1	1	4.2	1	7	7	1	3	3	13.50	2.14	5.8
		NLCS	2	2	5.0	2	10	9	2	2	2	16.20	2.40	3.6

Postseason batting

Postseason Shaun Marcum'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
2011 Post	MIL	Postseason total	2	3	3	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	1	2	2	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	1	1	1	0	.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, 2015. 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	78	69	22	5	8	15	.319	.397	.623	.434	19.2%
vs RHB	64	61	10	4	3	15	.164	.203	.393	.244	23.4%

Pitch sequencing

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

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CutterFour-seamChangeupSinkerCurveballSliderIN

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Pitch arsenal

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

Season


Cutter	33.0%	186	83.2	1,214	49.5%	26.9%	42	.190	.680
Four-Seam Fastball	26.3%	148	85.3	1,784	41.2%	13.5%	35	.286	1.016
Changeup	18.1%	102	79.8	1,091	42.2%	42.6%	27	.222	.720
Sinker	9.9%	56	85.4	1,923	41.1%	15.4%	9	—	—
Curveball	7.8%	44	71.6	1,140	43.2%	30.4%	10	—	—
Slider	2.8%	16	79.0	1,181	50.0%	36.4%	6	—	—

Shaun Marcum'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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Similar players

Nearest 2015 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Eric StultsATL

ERA: 5.85
FIP: 5.38
SO: 31
WAR: -0.3

Derek HollandTEX

ERA: 4.91
FIP: 5.30
SO: 41
WAR: -0.2

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Aníbal SánchezDET

ERA: 4.99
FIP: 4.73
SO: 138
WAR: 0.3

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Matt CainSF

ERA: 5.79
FIP: 5.54
SO: 41
WAR: -0.6

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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.