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Shawn Tolleson

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 214 lb
Number: #38

Born: January 19, 1988 in Dallas, TX, United States
MLB debut: June 7, 2012

dbWAR: .7
IP: 36.1
ERA: 7.68
FIP: 5.24
K/9: 7.2
FIP−: 125

Shawn Tolleson was a relief pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2016 he struck out 29 batters over 36.1 innings across 37 appearances, going 2-2. His ERA of 7.68 was 83.3% higher than the league average of 4.19 — the worst on his team, and 500th of 512 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.24 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 21.3% of swings (9.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.3%. 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, 2016.

FIP5.24

K/97.2

WHIP1.73

WAR-.2

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2016	TEX	37	0	36.1	2	2	11	53	31	29	10	7.68	5.24	1.73	7.2	2.5	183	125	-0.2
2015	TEX	73	0	72.1	6	4	35	66	24	76	17	2.99	3.44	1.15	9.5	2.1	75	87	0.9

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2016	TEX	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-112	-0.0	—

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2016. 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	74	66	21	5	7	9	.318	.378	.576	.398	12.2%
vs RHB	95	92	32	3	3	20	.348	.368	.489	.372	21.1%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2016.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .255.

Pitch sequencing

What Shawn Tolleson 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	59.9%	395	92.9	2,175	48.6%	16.2%	93	.344	.900
Slider	21.7%	143	84.0	799	39.9%	34.4%	37	.324	.829
Changeup	10.6%	70	82.1	1,193	34.3%	21.2%	20	.400	1.205
Cutter	5.6%	37	88.5	994	24.3%	28.6%	8	—	—

Shawn Tolleson'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 2016 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Christian BergmanCOL

ERA: 8.39
FIP: 5.78
SO: 22
WAR: -0.2

Eddie ButlerCOL

ERA: 7.17
FIP: 5.44
SO: 47
WAR: -0.2

Cody AndersonCLE

ERA: 6.68
FIP: 4.84
SO: 54
WAR: 0.2

Matt AlbersCWS

ERA: 6.31
FIP: 5.80
SO: 30
WAR: -0.7

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.