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Carlos Martinez

St. Louis Cardinals National League Central

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 200 lb

Born: September 21, 1991 in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: May 3, 2013

dbWAR: 14.6
IP: 82.1
ERA: 6.23
FIP: 4.76
K/9: 6.2
FIP−: 112

Carlos Martinez was a starting pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2021 he struck out 57 batters over 82.1 innings across 16 appearances, 16 of them starts, going 4-9. His ERA of 6.23 was 46.1% higher than the league average of 4.27 — the worst on his team, and 497th of 567 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.76 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 18.8% of swings (8.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.7%. His 0.5 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.

FIP4.76

K/96.2

WHIP1.37

WAR.5

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	STL	16	16	82.1	4	9	0	77	57	57	36	6.23	4.76	1.37	6.2	3.9	146	112	0.5
2020	STL	5	5	20.0	0	3	0	32	22	17	10	9.90	6.89	2.10	7.7	4.5	222	155	-0.3
2019	STL	48	0	48.1	4	2	24	39	17	53	18	3.17	2.86	1.18	9.9	3.4	70	64	1.1
2018	STL	33	18	118.2	8	6	5	100	41	117	60	3.11	3.53	1.35	8.9	4.6	75	85	1.9
2017	STL	32	32	205.0	12	11	0	179	83	217	71	3.64	3.91	1.22	9.5	3.1	84	90	3.3
2016	STL	31	31	195.1	16	9	0	169	66	174	70	3.04	3.61	1.22	8.0	3.2	73	86	3.5
2015	STL	31	29	179.2	14	7	0	168	60	184	63	3.01	3.21	1.29	9.2	3.2	76	81	3.6

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	STL	15	25	2	0	0	0	15	.083	.083	.125	.042	.222	0.0%	60.0%	.089	-4.8	-62	-0.1
2019	STL	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-122	-0.0
2018	STL	19	36	8	1	4	0	11	.242	.235	.394	.152	.318	0.0%	30.6%	.264	-1.6	64	0.4
2017	STL	29	69	11	0	11	1	19	.177	.203	.226	.048	.256	1.4%	27.5%	.191	-7.7	9	0.3
2016	STL	30	65	14	0	6	0	13	.237	.246	.254	.017	.298	0.0%	20.0%	.220	-5.3	32	0.4
2015	STL	28	63	8	0	0	1	23	.143	.172	.179	.036	.242	1.6%	36.5%	.160	-7.8	-11	0.0

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	202	180	47	4	18	30	.261	.337	.394	.320	14.9%
vs RHB	161	133	30	4	18	27	.226	.350	.383	.332	16.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2021.

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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 .243.

Pitch sequencing

What Carlos Martinez 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


Four-Seam Fastball	27.5%	352	93.4	2,051	43.5%	11.8%	78	.269	.870
Slider	22.8%	292	82.5	2,060	45.9%	28.9%	70	.186	.566
Cutter	21.3%	273	90.6	2,171	45.4%	14.5%	62	.323	.896
Sinker	13.8%	177	91.3	1,945	36.7%	9.4%	42	.286	.769
Changeup	13.4%	172	84.8	1,858	44.8%	30.1%	59	.186	.533
Curveball	1.1%	14	78.3	1,949	21.4%	50.0%	2	—	—

Carlos Martinez'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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Similar players

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

Matt ManningDET

ERA: 5.80
FIP: 4.62
SO: 57
WAR: 0.6

Very close

Steven BraultPIT

ERA: 5.86
FIP: 4.62
SO: 19
WAR: 0.2

Trevor CahillPIT

ERA: 6.57
FIP: 4.06
SO: 32
WAR: 0.5

Daniel Lynch IVKC

ERA: 5.69
FIP: 4.82
SO: 55
WAR: 0.5

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.