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Andrew Cashner

Age
33
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 6"
Weight
235 lb
Number
#34
Born
September 11, 1986 in Conroe, TX, United States
MLB debut
May 31, 2010
dbWAR
5.3
10 season(s)
IP
150.0
ERA
4.68
FIP
4.66
K/9
6.5
FIP−
103
100 = avg

Andrew Cashner was a starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2019 he struck out 108 batters over 150.0 innings across 42 appearances, 23 of them starts, going 11-8. His ERA of 4.68 was 3.9% higher than the league average of 4.51 — 12th of 20 on his team, and 303rd of 545 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.66 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 22.5% of swings (10.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.0%. His 1.2 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, 2019.

FIP4.66
K/96.5
WHIP1.35
WAR1.2

WAR by season

2.31.0-0.31516171819

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2019BOS/BAL4223150.0118114478108584.684.661.356.53.51041031.2
2018BAL2828153.041501779099655.295.321.585.83.8128128-0.3
2017TEX2828166.2111101566386643.404.611.324.63.5781061.8
2016SD/MIA2827132.0511014277112605.254.841.537.64.11251160.5
2015SD3131184.2616020089165664.343.851.448.03.2109972.3

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2019BAL13000000.000.000.000.000.0000.0%0.0%.000-0.8-116-0.0
2018BAL23000001.000.000.000.000.0000.0%33.3%.000-0.8-121-0.0
2017TEX27101002.200.167.200.000.2500.0%28.6%.146-1.0-21-0.0
2016SD/MIA23406010313.176.243.176.000.2867.5%32.5%.199-3.9170.2
2015SD30615010124.083.098.083.000.1391.6%39.3%.084-11.2-65-0.3

Platoon splits

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

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB2962655942851.223.298.340.28117.2%
vs RHB34030585153057.279.347.485.35316.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2019.

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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 .252.

Pitch sequencing

What Andrew Cashner 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.

Four-Seam Fastball45.3%1,13893.92,20345.6%18.0%215.298.857
Changeup27.9%70084.51,54443.1%27.8%207.217.618
Slider13.1%32885.72,25539.0%29.8%76.224.641
Curveball10.8%27280.62,34933.1%15.2%54.241.830
Sinker2.9%7391.92,04835.6%7.4%18.278.881
Andrew Cashner'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.

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.