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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: -.1
IP: 25.2
ERA: 7.36
FIP: 5.20
K/9: 4.9
FIP−: 131

Sugar Ray Marimon was a relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2015 he struck out 14 batters over 25.2 innings across 16 appearances, going 0-1. His ERA of 7.36 was 85.9% higher than the league average of 3.96 — the second worst on his team, and 501st of 513 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.20 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 19.6% of swings (8.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 12.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.0%. 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, 2015.

FIP5.20

K/94.9

WHIP1.71

WAR-.2

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2015	ATL	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	—

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2015	ATL	5	7	2	0	0	0	1	3	.333	.429	.333	.000	.667	14.3%	42.9%	.353	+0.2	128	0.1	—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2015. 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	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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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2015.

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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 .254.

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, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.


Four-Seam Fastball	36.1%	151	91.2	2,145	49.0%	15.6%	37	.216	.681
Sinker	25.6%	107	91.4	2,138	34.6%	8.7%	29	.379	1.096
Curveball	21.8%	91	79.3	1,035	36.3%	31.8%	16	.188	.375
Changeup	16.0%	67	82.0	1,923	31.3%	36.4%	17	.412	1.369

Sugar Ray Marimon'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 2015 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Chris CapuanoNYY

ERA: 7.97
FIP: 5.03
SO: 38
WAR: -0.2

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ERA: 6.86
FIP: 5.09
SO: 17
WAR: -0.1

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Bryan MitchellNYY

ERA: 6.37
FIP: 4.75
SO: 29
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Tom GorzelannyDET

ERA: 5.95
FIP: 4.53
SO: 36
WAR: -0.1

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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.