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Alex Sanabia

Age: 25
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #59

Born: September 8, 1988 in San Diego, CA, United States
MLB debut: June 24, 2010

dbWAR: .1
IP: 55.1
ERA: 4.88
FIP: 5.85
K/9: 5.0
FIP−: 151

Alex Sanabia was a starting pitcher for the Miami Marlins. In 2013 he struck out 31 batters over 55.1 innings across 10 appearances, 10 of them starts, going 3-7. His ERA of 4.88 was 26.2% higher than the league average of 3.87 — the second worst on his team, and 390th of 496 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.85 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 22.0% of swings (10.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.4%. His -0.7 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, 2013 regular season.

FIP5.85

K/95.0

WHIP1.70

WAR-.7

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.


2013	MIA	10	10	55.1	3	7	69	30	31	25	4.88	5.85	1.70	5.0	4.1	126	151	-0.7
2011	FLA	3	2	11.0	0	0	13	4	8	3	3.27	4.75	1.45	6.5	2.5	83	121	-0.0
2010	FLA	15	12	72.1	5	3	74	30	47	16	3.73	3.65	1.24	5.8	2.0	92	89	1.1

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.


2013	MIA	9	18	1	1	7	.063	.118	.063	.000	.111	5.6%	38.9%	.094	-3.1	-56	-0.1
2011	FLA	2	4	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	75.0%	.000	-1.0	-122	-0.1
2010	FLA	13	26	1	0	11	.045	.087	.045	.000	.091	0.0%	42.3%	.072	-5.2	-74	-0.2

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2013. 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	133	111	41	9	16	11	.369	.459	.712	.495	8.3%
vs RHB	118	107	28	1	9	20	.262	.319	.364	.305	16.9%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2013.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2013.

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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 .253.

Pitch sequencing

What Alex Sanabia 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


Sinker	40.6%	368	89.6	2,458	40.8%	14.0%	85	.353	1.085
Changeup	25.9%	235	82.2	2,103	43.4%	27.4%	61	.279	.829
Slider	20.2%	183	81.9	598	41.0%	33.0%	47	.298	.800
Four-Seam Fastball	12.8%	116	89.8	2,096	40.5%	15.7%	25	.320	.873

Alex Sanabia'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 2013 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Ted LillyLAD

ERA: 5.09
FIP: 5.18
SO: 18
WAR: -0.1

André RienzoCWS

ERA: 4.82
FIP: 5.85
SO: 38
WAR: -0.7

Dylan AxelrodCWS

ERA: 5.68
FIP: 5.44
SO: 73
WAR: -1.2

Barry ZitoSF

ERA: 5.74
FIP: 4.92
SO: 86
WAR: -0.4

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.