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Brandon Workman

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 235 lb

Born: August 13, 1988 in Arlington, TX, United States
MLB debut: July 10, 2013

dbWAR: 2.7
IP: 28.0
ERA: 5.46
FIP: 5.49
K/9: 8.0
FIP−: 129

Brandon Workman was a relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2021 he struck out 25 batters over 28.0 innings across 29 appearances, going 1-2. His ERA of 5.46 was 28.1% higher than the league average of 4.27 — the second worst on his team, and 442nd of 567 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.49 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 24.2% of swings (9.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 15.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.4%. 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, 2021 regular season.

FIP5.49

K/98.0

WHIP2.04

WAR-.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2021	BOS/CHC	29	0	28.0	1	2	0	36	17	25	21	5.46	5.49	2.04	8.0	6.8	128	129	-0.2
2020	PHI/BOS	21	0	19.2	1	4	9	31	13	23	13	5.95	5.48	2.24	10.5	5.9	134	123	-0.1
2019	BOS	73	0	71.2	10	1	16	29	15	104	45	1.88	2.46	1.03	13.1	5.7	42	55	2.1
2018	BOS	43	0	41.1	6	1	0	34	15	37	16	3.27	4.42	1.21	8.1	3.5	79	106	0.1
2017	BOS	33	0	39.2	1	1	0	37	14	37	11	3.18	4.49	1.21	8.4	2.5	73	103	0.2
2014	BOS	19	15	87.0	1	10	0	88	50	70	36	5.17	4.44	1.43	7.2	3.7	138	119	0.2
2013	BOS	20	3	41.2	6	3	0	44	23	47	15	4.97	3.43	1.42	10.2	3.2	129	89	0.5

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2014	BOS	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	75.0%	.000	-1.0	-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 Brandon Workman's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2018 Post	BOS	Postseason total	3	1.0	0	7	5	2	3	3	45.00	10.00	27.0
		ALDS	2	0.2	0	4	1	0	1	2	13.50	7.50	27.0
		ALCS	1	0.1	0	3	4	2	2	1	108.00	15.00	27.0
2013 Post	BOS	Postseason total	7	8.2	1	7	0	0	3	4	0.00	1.15	4.2
		ALDS	1	0.2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0.00	1.50	0.0
		ALCS	3	4.2	0	3	0	0	2	3	0.00	1.07	5.8
		World Series	3	3.1	1	3	0	0	1	1	0.00	1.20	2.7
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	10	9.2	1	14	5	2	6	7	4.66	2.07	6.5

Postseason batting

Postseason Brandon Workman's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2013 Post	BOS	World Series	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

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.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2021. 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	42	11	2	8	9	.262	.380	.476	.361	18.0%
vs RHB	86	73	25	2	13	16	.342	.442	.493	.412	18.6%

Pitch sequencing

What Brandon Workman 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


Knuckle Curve	50.9%	262	78.4	2,500	40.1%	24.0%	68	.279	.767
Four-Seam Fastball	35.3%	182	91.1	2,050	48.9%	22.4%	34	.353	1.176
Cutter	13.8%	71	87.0	2,082	39.4%	29.6%	14	—	—

Brandon Workman'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 2021 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Junior FernándezSTL

ERA: 5.66
FIP: 5.15
SO: 15
WAR: -0.1

Mason ThompsonWSH

ERA: 4.01
FIP: 5.36
SO: 23
WAR: -0.2

Junior GuerraLAA

ERA: 6.06
FIP: 4.75
SO: 61
WAR: 0.1

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ERA: 6.21
FIP: 6.11
SO: 24
WAR: -0.5

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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.