P · 2021
Sean Nolin
- Age
- 34
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 250 lb
- Number
- #35
- Born
- December 26, 1989 in Seaford, NY, USA
- MLB debut
- May 24, 2013
Age shown as of the 2023 season.
- dbWAR
- -.6 4 season(s)
- PA
- 6
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -122 100 = avg
Sean Nolin is a pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 6 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 46.5 mph off the bat and made contact on 66.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -122 wRC+ puts his offence 222% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.6 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, 2021.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -1.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .000 | -1.6 | -122 | -0.1 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 18.00 | 12.59 | 3.00 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 416 | 291 | -0.3 | |
| 2021 | 10 | 5 | 26.2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 13 | 20 | 13 | 4.39 | 5.31 | 1.69 | 6.8 | 4.4 | 103 | 124 | -0.1 | |
| 2015 | 6 | 6 | 29.0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 17 | 15 | 12 | 5.28 | 5.13 | 1.62 | 4.7 | 3.7 | 133 | 130 | -0.1 |
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 75.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 42 | 37 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | .297 | .381 | .541 | .396 | 11.9% |
| vs RHB | 81 | 69 | 21 | 2 | 9 | 15 | .304 | .388 | .478 | .377 | 18.5% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 3 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 46.5 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 74.0 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -3.0° 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, 2021.
Situational hitting
How Sean Nolin 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 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .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, 2021.
Pitch sequencing
What Sean Nolin 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 2021.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 230 | 90.7 | 2,086 | 46.5% | 18.2% | |
| Cutter | 117 | 82.3 | 2,016 | 43.6% | 22.0% | |
| Changeup | 78 | 79.9 | 1,669 | 44.9% | 27.8% | |
| Curveball | 68 | 74.0 | 1,774 | 38.2% | 19.2% |
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.