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James Sherfy

Age
30
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
175 lb
Born
December 27, 1991 in Thousand Oaks, CA, United States
MLB debut
August 20, 2017

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dbWAR
.4
Regular season, 6 season(s)
IP
15.0
ERA
4.20
FIP
5.37
K/9
7.2
FIP−
126
100 = avg

James Sherfy was a relief pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. In 2021 he struck out 12 batters over 15.0 innings across 14 appearances, going 2-1. His ERA of 4.20 was 1.5% lower than the league average of 4.27. Stripping out defence, his 5.37 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 22.9% of swings (9.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.0%. His -0.1 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.

FIP5.37
K/97.2
WHIP1.07
WAR-.1

WAR by season

0.40.1-0.117181921

Pitching Regular season

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

Trend
2021SF/LAD14015.02101271244.205.371.077.22.498126-0.1
2019AZ17018.110123122255.894.631.5310.82.51311030.1
2018AZ15016.10008317101.654.081.109.45.540980.1
2017AZ11010.220150920.002.030.667.61.70470.4

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2021LAD11000000.000.000.000.000.0000.0%0.0%.000-0.3-122-0.0
2019AZ22000002.000.000.000.000—0.0%100.0%.000-0.6-120-0.0

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 James Sherfy's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2017 PostAZNLDS201.00005400136.005.009.0

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.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB27234345.174.296.565.36018.5%
vs RHB36328007.250.286.250.24319.4%

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 James Sherfy throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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SliderFour-seam

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Slider63.0%14580.62,67947.6%25.5%39.231.687
Four-Seam Fastball35.2%8194.12,26146.9%19.5%16.188.638
James Sherfy'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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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.