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Steve Cishek

Age
36
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 6"
Weight
220 lb
Number
#33
Born
June 18, 1986 in Falmouth, MA, United States
MLB debut
September 26, 2010

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dbWAR
9.3
Regular season, 16 season(s)
IP
66.1
ERA
4.21
FIP
4.85
K/9
10.0
FIP−
122
100 = avg

Steve Cishek was a relief pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2022 he struck out 74 batters over 66.1 innings across 69 appearances, going 1-4. His ERA of 4.21 was 6.0% higher than the league average of 3.97 — 8th of 19 on his team, and 322nd of 546 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.85 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 26.1% of swings (11.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 25.8%. His -0.3 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, 2022 regular season.

FIP4.85
K/910.0
WHIP1.22
WAR-.3

WAR by season

1.70.7-0.310111213141516171819202122

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

Trend
2022WSH69066.1141543174274.214.851.2210.03.7106122-0.3
2021LAA74068.1020612664413.423.741.498.45.480880.9
2020CWS22020.000021122195.405.641.509.44.0121127-0.1
2019CHC70064.0467482157292.954.541.208.04.1661010.3
2018CHC80070.1434451778282.183.441.0410.03.652831.0
2017TB/SEA49044.2321261041142.013.340.908.32.846770.8
2016SEA62064.04625442076212.813.571.0210.73.067850.8
2015MIA/STL59055.1264552248273.583.861.487.84.490970.4
2014MIA67065.14539582384213.172.171.2111.62.985581.7
2013MIA69069.24634531874222.332.521.089.62.860651.6
2012MIA68063.25215541968292.693.221.309.64.167801.0
2011FLA45054.2213451655192.632.461.179.13.167621.3
2010FLA304.100010310.002.390.466.22.10580.1

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

Trend
2019CHC22000000.000.000.000.000.0000.0%0.0%.000-0.6-121-0.0
2018CHC66100002.167.167.167.000.2500.0%33.3%.146-0.8-190.0
2012MIA11000000.000.000.000.000.0000.0%0.0%.000-0.2-119-0.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Steve Cishek's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2018 PostCHCWild Card100.2000000000.000.000.0

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2022. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB103822361426.280.398.537.39825.2%
vs RHB1841603151348.194.290.300.27326.1%

Pitch sequencing

What Steve Cishek 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.

Slider37.1%43676.52,27443.6%33.9%92.250.777
Sinker34.1%40189.82,28847.6%14.7%83.265.808
Four-Seam Fastball28.3%33389.32,37752.3%29.0%69.130.473
Steve Cishek'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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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.