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Marco Estrada

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 180 lb
Number: #41

Born: July 5, 1983 in Sonora, Sonora, Mexico
MLB debut: August 20, 2008

dbWAR: 8.1
IP: 23.2
ERA: 6.85
FIP: 7.52
K/9: 4.2
FIP−: 167

Marco Estrada was a starting pitcher for the Oakland Athletics. In 2019 he struck out 11 batters over 23.2 innings across 5 appearances, 5 of them starts, going 0-2. His ERA of 6.85 was 51.9% higher than the league average of 4.51 — the worst on his team, and 499th of 545 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 7.52 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 17.1% of swings (7.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 10.4%. His -0.5 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, 2019 regular season.

FIP7.52

K/94.2

WHIP1.31

WAR-.5

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2019	OAK	5	5	23.2	0	2	23	18	11	8	6.85	7.52	1.31	4.2	3.0	152	167	-0.5
2018	TOR	28	28	143.2	7	14	155	90	103	50	5.64	5.44	1.43	6.5	3.1	136	131	-0.5
2017	TOR	33	33	186.0	10	9	186	103	176	71	4.98	4.61	1.38	8.5	3.4	114	106	1.6
2016	TOR	29	29	176.0	9	9	132	68	165	65	3.48	4.15	1.12	8.4	3.3	83	99	2.4
2015	TOR	34	28	181.0	13	8	134	63	131	55	3.13	4.40	1.04	6.5	2.7	79	111	0.8
2014	MIL	39	18	150.2	7	6	137	73	127	44	4.36	4.88	1.20	7.6	2.6	117	131	-0.9
2013	MIL	21	21	128.0	7	4	109	55	118	29	3.87	3.86	1.08	8.3	2.0	100	100	1.6
2012	MIL	29	23	138.1	5	7	129	56	143	29	3.64	3.35	1.14	9.3	1.9	91	83	2.7
2011	MIL	43	7	92.2	4	8	83	42	88	29	4.08	3.67	1.21	8.5	2.8	103	93	0.9
2010	MIL	7	1	11.1	0	0	14	12	13	6	9.53	6.08	1.76	10.3	4.8	234	149	-0.2
2009	WSH	4	1	7.1	0	1	6	5	9	4	6.14	4.05	1.36	11.0	4.9	142	94	0.1
2008	WSH	11	0	12.2	0	0	17	11	10	5	7.82	7.32	1.74	7.1	3.6	181	169	-0.4

Batting Regular season

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


2018	TOR	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-122	-0.0
2017	TOR	2	4	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	75.0%	.000	-1.1	-124	-0.0
2016	TOR	2	5	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	60.0%	.000	-1.3	-112	-0.1
2015	TOR	2	6	2	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.000	.500	0.0%	33.3%	.294	-0.1	86	0.1
2014	MIL	19	40	3	2	3	13	.094	.171	.094	.000	.158	7.5%	32.5%	.137	-5.3	-24	-0.0
2013	MIL	19	40	7	2	1	16	.206	.229	.235	.029	.389	2.5%	40.0%	.210	-3.3	24	0.2
2012	MIL	24	45	4	3	2	21	.100	.143	.150	.050	.211	4.4%	46.7%	.137	-6.4	-24	-0.1
2011	MIL	8	16	3	0	0	5	.250	.250	.333	.083	.429	0.0%	31.3%	.256	-0.8	55	0.1
2010	MIL	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-125	-0.0
2009	WSH	2	2	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	0.0%	0.0%	—	—	—	0.0
2008	WSH	2	2	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	—	—	50.0%	0.0%	.731	+0.7	368	0.1

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 Marco Estrada'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
2016 Post	TOR	Postseason total	3	3	22.1	1	2	15	5	3	1	19	2.01	0.72	7.7
		ALDS	1	1	8.1	1	0	4	1	0	0	6	1.08	0.48	6.5
		ALCS	2	2	14.0	0	2	11	4	3	1	13	2.57	0.86	8.4
2015 Post	TOR	Postseason total	3	3	19.1	2	1	14	5	2	1	15	2.33	0.78	7.0
		ALDS	1	1	6.1	1	0	5	1	0	0	4	1.42	0.79	5.7
		ALCS	2	2	13.0	1	1	9	4	2	1	11	2.77	0.77	7.6
2011 Post	MIL	Postseason total	4	0	6.0	0	0	7	4	0	2	9	6.00	1.50	13.5
		NLDS	2	0	3.0	0	0	3	0	0	0	5	0.00	1.00	15.0
		NLCS	2	0	3.0	0	0	4	4	0	2	4	12.00	2.00	12.0
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	10	6	47.2	3	3	36	14	5	4	43	2.64	0.84	8.1

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, 2019. 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	43	41	6	3	1	7	.146	.186	.463	.263	16.3%
vs RHB	63	54	17	4	7	4	.315	.413	.593	.423	6.3%

Pitch sequencing

What Marco Estrada 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	42.9%	175	87.3	2,281	44.0%	10.3%	34	.176	.846
Changeup	25.7%	105	75.7	1,988	36.2%	30.2%	32	.188	.632
Unknown	18.4%	75	—	—	40.0%	10.8%	20	.250	.936
Cutter	9.6%	39	83.8	2,403	48.7%	16.7%	5	—	—
Curveball	3.4%	14	75.4	2,626	42.9%	0.0%	4	—	—

Marco Estrada'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 2019 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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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.