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Brandon Morrow

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 207 lb
Number: #23

Born: July 26, 1984 in Santa Rosa, CA, United States
MLB debut: April 3, 2007

dbWAR: 2.8
IP: 30.2
ERA: 1.47
FIP: 2.96
K/9: 9.1
FIP−: 71

Brandon Morrow was a relief pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2018 he struck out 31 batters over 30.2 innings across 35 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 1.47 was 64.6% lower than the league average of 4.15 — the best on his team, and 4th of 530 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 2.96 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 28.9% of swings (14.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 25.4%. 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, 2018.

FIP2.96

K/99.1

WHIP1.08

WAR.6

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	CHC	35	0	30.2	0	22	24	5	31	9	1.47	2.96	1.08	9.1	2.6	35	71	0.6
2017	LAD	45	0	43.2	6	2	31	10	50	9	2.06	1.55	0.92	10.3	1.9	47	36	1.6
2016	SD	18	0	16.0	1	0	19	3	8	3	1.69	4.33	1.38	4.5	1.7	40	103	0.1
2015	SD	5	5	33.0	2	0	29	10	23	7	2.73	3.56	1.09	6.3	1.9	69	90	0.5

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2018	CHC	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-118	-0.0
2015	SD	5	10	0	0	0	0	1	8	.000	.100	.000	.000	.000	10.0%	80.0%	.071	-1.9	-74	-0.1

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	58	53	8	1	5	15	.151	.224	.208	.202	25.9%
vs RHB	65	60	16	1	4	16	.267	.323	.333	.295	24.6%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2018.

Pitch sequencing

What Brandon Morrow 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


Four-Seam Fastball	72.7%	355	97.5	2,413	50.1%	23.3%	87	.184	.479
Cutter	15.0%	73	91.9	2,366	43.8%	37.8%	15	.333	.867
Slider	12.3%	60	88.0	2,383	45.0%	53.8%	11	—	—

Brandon Morrow'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 2018 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Kyle CrickPIT

ERA: 2.39
FIP: 3.14
SO: 65
WAR: 1.0

Very close

Pedro StropCHC

ERA: 2.26
FIP: 3.43
SO: 57
WAR: 0.9

Very close

Seth LugoNYM

ERA: 2.66
FIP: 3.17
SO: 103
WAR: 1.6

Very close

Jeremy JeffressMIL

ERA: 1.29
FIP: 2.78
SO: 89
WAR: 1.7

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.