P · 2019
Marcus Walden
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 10"
- Weight
- 198 lb
- Born
- September 13, 1988 in Fresno, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- April 1, 2018
Age shown as of the 2020 season.
- dbWAR
- .9 4 season(s)
- PA
- 1
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -117 100 = avg
Marcus Walden is a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .758. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -117 wRC+ puts his offence 217% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.3 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, 2019.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -117 | -0.0 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 15 | 0 | 13.1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 9.45 | 8.59 | 2.40 | 6.8 | 6.1 | 212 | 193 | -0.5 | |
| 2019 | 70 | 0 | 78.0 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 61 | 33 | 76 | 32 | 3.81 | 3.69 | 1.19 | 8.8 | 3.7 | 85 | 82 | 1.0 | |
| 2018 | 8 | 0 | 14.2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 14 | 3 | 3.68 | 2.07 | 1.16 | 8.6 | 1.8 | 89 | 50 | 0.4 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 100.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 132 | 116 | 23 | 3 | 13 | 36 | .198 | .275 | .336 | .263 | 27.3% |
| vs RHB | 195 | 171 | 38 | 3 | 19 | 40 | .222 | .318 | .345 | .296 | 20.5% |
Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2019.
Situational hitting
How Marcus Walden 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 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
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, 2019.
Pitch sequencing
What Marcus Walden 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 2019.
| Slider | 472 | 85.6 | 2,380 | 52.3% | 44.0% | |
| Cutter | 327 | 91.7 | 2,278 | 48.6% | 20.3% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 245 | 94.1 | 2,228 | 44.1% | 17.5% | |
| Sinker | 224 | 94.0 | 2,099 | 33.0% | 19.4% |
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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.