Brian Ellington
P | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 3" 215LBS | Age: 33
Draft: 2012 | Rd: 16, #497, Miami Marlins | West Florida
W L ERA G GS SV IP SO WHIP
2015 2 1 2.88 23 0 0 25 18 1.20
2016 4 2 2.45 32 0 0 33 32 1.30
2017 1 1 7.25 42 0 0 44.2 48 1.86
3 Seasons 7 4 4.65 97 0 0 102.2 98 1.52
G W-L ERA IP SO WHIP
2015 23 2-1 2.88 25 18 1.20
2016 32 4-2 2.45 33 32 1.30
2017 42 1-1 7.25 44.2 48 1.86
3 Seasons 97 7-4 4.65 102.2 98 1.52
MLB Percentile Rankings
Pitch Distribution

Statcast Statistics

Season Age Pitches Batted
Balls
Barrels Barrel % Barrel/PA Exit
Velocity
Max EV Launch
Angle
Sweet
Spot %
XBA XSLG WOBA XWOBA XWOBACON HardHit% K% BB% ERA xERA
2015 24 445 72 3 4.2 2.9 86.1 111.5 15.6 34.7 .231 .362 .270 .309 .317 20.8 17.1 12.4 2.88 3.94
2016 25 565 91 4 4.4 2.8 88.6 114.0 24.1 27.5 .180 .294 .287 .261 .278 30.8 22.7 11.3 2.46 2.82
2017 26 930 130 9 6.9 4.1 88.2 108.1 17.9 34.6 .233 .394 .381 .345 .362 36.2 21.9 16.0 7.25 5.23
Player 1940 293 16 5.5 3.4 87.8 114.0 19.2 32.4 .217 .356 .328 .312 .326 30.7 21.1 13.8
MLB 6.9 4.7 88.4 122.4 12.2 33.1 .245 .406 .316 .315 .369 36.3 22.1 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Statcast Pitch Arsenal

Ellington relies on 4 pitches.
Four Seamer
(63.7%) ,
Curveball
(15.3%) ,
Sinker
(12.0%) ,
Changeup
(9.1%) ,


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Pitch Tracking



Batted Ball Profile

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2015 38.9 25.0 26.4 9.7 30.6 26.4 41.7 2.8 30.6 36.1 22.2 4.2 4.2 2.9
2016 30.8 33.0 23.1 13.2 31.9 31.9 36.3 0.0 19.8 41.8 17.6 9.9 4.4 2.8
2017 37.7 33.1 20.8 8.5 31.5 36.9 31.5 0.8 26.2 30.8 27.7 7.7 6.9 4.1
Player 35.8 31.1 22.9 10.2 31.4 32.8 35.5 1.0 25.3 35.5 23.2 7.5 5.5 3.4
MLB 44.6 23.5 24.9 7.0 37.0 37.6 25.3 3.9 32.9 24.7 24.4 5.8 6.9 4.7
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Pitch Movement


How this works: Every pitch is affected by the forces of gravity, which means that every pitch drops on its way from the mound to the plate. These numbers are reported with gravity, which makes them larger and different than other pitch movement numbers you may have seen. Since gravity requires time, and slower pitches aren’t ‘better’ just because they have more time to move, the movement of a pitch is compared to ‘average’ movement by comparing it to other MLB pitch types within +/- 2 MPH and from within +/- 0.5 feet of extension and release.
Vertical Movement (inches) Horizontal Movement (inches)
Year Pitch Team Hand # MPH Inches of Drop vs Avg % vs Avg Inches of Break vs Avg % Break vs Avg
2017 Curveball MIA R 142 87.5 34.5 -5.8 -14 6.1 -0.2 -4
2017 Sinker MIA R 111 98.8 16.0 -0.8 -5 14.9 -0.6 -4
2017 4-Seam Fastball MIA R 591 98.2 11.1 0.8 7 9.8 1.0 11
2017 Changeup MIA R 84 89.0 21.5 -6.3 -23 14.7 0.7 5
2016 Changeup MIA R 44 88.8 26.3 -3.2 -11 10.0 -2.6 -21
2016 Curveball MIA R 81 86.7 38.6 -3.0 -7 7.9 0.0 0
2016 4-Seam Fastball MIA R 411 98.5 12.8 1.3 9 9.1 1.2 16
2015 4-Seam Fastball MIA R 336 97.6 15.6 -0.7 -5 13.7 5.3 62
2015 Sinker MIA R 2 97.9 24.4 4.8 25 18.0 3.2 21
2015 Changeup MIA R 10 86.6 30.8 -0.7 -2 18.3 5.3 41
2015 Curveball MIA R 88 81.6 47.3 -3.0 -6 9.3 -0.3 -3
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Run Values by Pitch Type

Year Pitch Type Team RV/100 Run Value Pitches % PA BA SLG wOBA Whiff% K% PutAway % xBA xSLG xwOBA Hard Hit %
2017 4-Seam Fastball -1.7 -10 591 63.5 148 .291 .496 .418 29.5 22.3 21.0 .244 .431 .370 44.0
2017 Curveball -2.1 -3 142 15.3 19 .235 .412 .366 33.3 26.3 9.3 .188 .240 .237 25.0
2017 Sinker 1.8 2 111 11.9 31 .208 .333 .339 17.2 9.7 8.1 .207 .321 .333 28.6
2017 Changeup -1.8 -2 84 9.0 21 .250 .500 .333 39.0 33.3 18.9 .239 .394 .290 7.7
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
! Note: To better align with other values, positive numbers (red) are good, and negative numbers (blue) are poor.
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2015 103 437 3 7 -2 -4 4
2016 139 559 5 7 -4 -2 6
2017 219 928 7 0 -13 -7 -13
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Plate Discipline

Season Pitches Zone % Zone Swing % Zone Contact % Chase % Chase Contact % Edge % 1st Pitch Strike % Swing % Whiff % Meatball % Meatball Swing %
2015 445 49.0 71.4 84.5 26.5 73.3 37.0 53.3 48.3 18.6 6.1 81.5
2016 565 49.2 70.5 82.7 31.4 55.6 41.4 53.9 50.6 25.5 8.8 88.0
2017 930 45.0 79.4 73.5 23.5 63.3 40.5 55.3 48.7 29.1 6.9 84.4
Player 1,940 47.1 74.8 78.6 26.4 63.0 40.0 54.4 49.2 25.7 7.3 85.1
MLB 48.6 67.0 82.0 28.5 58.0 42.6 60.9 47.1 24.8 7.3 76.1
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Year xwOBA /
xERA
xBA xSLG xISO xOBP Brl Brl% EV Hard
Hit%
K% BB% Whiff% Chase
Rate
FB
Velo
FB
Spin
CB
Spin
Extension
2015 97 94 40 43
2016 99 95 49 41
2017 18 67 57 46 2 72 31 23 21 53 1 82 9 99 97 78 43
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Expected Home Runs

Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2016 22.9 2 2.0 0 3 2 1 50.0
2017 22.0 7 6.7 0 3 7 2 28.6
Player 22.2 9 8.8 0 6 9 3 33.3

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2016 2 1 2 4 1 2 2 3 1 1 1 3 2 1 2 3 1 2 3 2 2 1 4 4 1 1 2 3 3 2 1
2017 7 7 5 8 7 7 8 7 4 5 7 8 8 5 6 6 7 6 7 7 7 6 10 8 8 5 5 8 9 7 4
Player 9 8 7 12 8 9 10 10 5 6 8 11 10 6 8 9 8 8 10 9 9 7 14 12 9 6 7 11 12 9 5
! Note: This tells how many of this player's home runs would have been out of other stadiums. This accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects. For these purposes, the 2020 Blue Jays home field was still Rogers Centre, not Sahlen Field.
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Year to Year Changes

Metric 2015 2016 +/-   2017 +/-  
Fastball Velocity 97.6 98.6 1.0 98.3 -0.3
Offspeed Velocity 86.6 88.9 2.3 89.0 0.1
Breaking Velocity 81.6 86.7 5.1 87.5 0.8
Exit Velocity 86.1 88.6 2.5 88.2 -0.4
Launch Angle 15.6 24.1 8.5 17.9 -6.2
Barrel % 4.2 4.4 0.2 6.9 2.5
Hard Hit % 20.8 30.8 10.0 36.2 5.4
Sweet Spot % 34.7 27.5 -7.2 34.6 7.1
xBA .231 .180 -0.051 .233 0.053
BA .193 .223 0.030 .270 0.047
xwOBA .309 .261 -0.048 .345 0.084
wOBA .270 .287 0.017 .381 0.094
xSLG .362 .294 -0.068 .394 0.100
SLG .307 .331 0.024 .466 0.135
K% 17.1 22.7 5.6 21.9 -0.8
BB% 12.4 11.3 -1.1 16.0 4.7
Swing % 48.3 50.6 2.3 48.7 -1.9
Whiff% 18.6 25.5 6.9 29.1 3.6
In Zone % 49.0 49.2 0.2 45.0 -4.2
Out of Zone % 51.0 50.8 -0.2 55.0 4.2
Out of Zone Swing % 26.5 31.4 4.9 23.5 -7.9
First Pitch Swing % 28.6 34.0 5.4 39.7 5.7
First Pitch Strike % 53.3 53.9 0.6 55.3 1.4
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

vs RHHvs LHH
YearAlignment TypePAwOBAPATotal%PATotal%
2016 Shifts 133 .267 73 0 0.0 60 5 8.3
2017 Shifts 219 .381 111 1 0.9 108 9 8.3
! Note: Shifts are through the 2022 season, Shaded starting from the 2023 season, Shift: three or more infielders are on the same side of second base, Shade: positioned outside of their typical responsible slices of the field.
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Pitch Tempo

Bases EmptyRunners On Base
SeasonTeamPitchesTempoFast %Slow %PitchesTempoFast %Slow %
2015 102 20.8 3.9% 5.9% 87 24.0 4.6% 28.7%
2016 122 23.6 4.1% 13.1% 108 26.2 8.3% 29.6%
2017 210 21.8 1.0% 3.8% 194 24.5 0.0% 11.9%
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Pitch Distribution