P · 2015
Sugar Ray Marimon
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 195 lb
- Number
- #54
- Born
- September 30, 1988 in Cartagena, Colombia
- MLB debut
- April 14, 2015
- dbWAR
- -.2 2 season(s)
- PA
- 7
- AVG
- .333
- OBP
- .429
- SLG
- .333
- wRC+
- 128 100 = avg
Sugar Ray Marimon is a pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2015 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 7 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .333, 31.0% higher than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .429 clip and slugged .333, for an OPS of .762, 5.6% higher than the league mark of .721. He averaged 67.8 mph off the bat and made contact on 77.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 128 wRC+ puts his offence 28% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.2 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.0 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.
League context
Percentile among qualified batters, 2015.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2015. These four terms sum to +0.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .333 | .429 | .333 | .000 | .667 | 14.3% | 42.9% | .353 | +0.2 | 128 | 0.0 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | 0 | 25.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 21 | 14 | 14 | 7.36 | 5.20 | 1.71 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 186 | 131 | -0.2 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .797 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .176 | 60.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 50 | 41 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 3 | .317 | .420 | .585 | .427 | 6.0% |
| vs RHB | 67 | 59 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 11 | .288 | .348 | .508 | .370 | 16.4% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 67.8 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 67.8 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -65.0° average
A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.
Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2015.
Situational hitting
How Sugar Ray Marimon hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .333 | .429 | .333 | .353 |
| Bases empty · thin | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .250 | .400 | .250 | .319 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .441 |
| Runners on · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .441 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2015.
Pitch sequencing
What Sugar Ray Marimon 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, and how often it misses in 2015.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 151 | 91.2 | 2,145 | 49.0% | 15.6% | |
| Sinker | 107 | 91.4 | 2,138 | 34.6% | 8.7% | |
| Curveball | 91 | 79.3 | 1,035 | 36.3% | 31.8% | |
| Changeup | 67 | 82.0 | 1,923 | 31.3% | 36.4% |
Head to head
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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.