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Brian Ellington

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 215 lb

Born: August 4, 1990 in Gainesville, FL, United States
MLB debut: August 3, 2015

dbWAR: -.0
IP: 44.2
ERA: 7.25
FIP: 5.80
K/9: 9.7
FIP−: 133

Brian Ellington was a relief pitcher for the Miami Marlins. In 2017 he struck out 48 batters over 44.2 innings across 42 appearances, going 1-1. His ERA of 7.25 was 66.4% higher than the league average of 4.36 — the second worst on his team, and 504th of 527 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.80 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 29.1% of swings (14.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 16.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.9%. 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, 2017.

FIP5.80

K/99.7

WHIP1.86

WAR-.5

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	MIA	42	44.2	1	1	48	36	48	35	7.25	5.80	1.86	9.7	7.1	166	133	-0.5
2016	MIA	32	33.0	4	2	27	9	32	16	2.45	3.63	1.30	8.7	4.4	59	87	0.4
2015	MIA	23	25.0	2	1	17	8	18	13	2.88	4.01	1.20	6.5	4.7	73	101	0.1

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2017	MIA	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-127	-0.0
2016	MIA	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-123	-0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2017. 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	108	85	22	3	23	20	.259	.417	.459	.390	18.5%
vs RHB	111	93	26	4	12	28	.280	.396	.473	.383	25.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2017.

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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 .254.

Pitch sequencing

What Brian Ellington 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	63.5%	591	98.2	2,488	48.4%	29.5%	117	.291	.935
Curveball	15.3%	142	87.5	2,663	34.5%	33.3%	18	.222	.689
Sinker	11.9%	111	98.8	2,519	43.2%	17.2%	24	.208	.720
Changeup	9.0%	84	89.0	2,228	34.5%	39.0%	20	.250	.786

Brian Ellington'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 2017 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

John AxfordOAK

ERA: 6.43
FIP: 5.73
SO: 21
WAR: -0.2

Josh OsichSF

ERA: 6.23
FIP: 5.21
SO: 43
WAR: -0.2

Kevin QuackenbushSD

ERA: 7.86
FIP: 5.82
SO: 23
WAR: -0.3

Michael YnoaCWS

ERA: 5.90
FIP: 6.16
SO: 23
WAR: -0.4

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.