Marcus Semien
2B | B/T: R/R | 6' 0" 195LBS | Age: 32

Draft: 2011 | Rd: 6, #201, Chicago White Sox | UC Berkeley

Stats

PA AB R H HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2023 248 218 47 65 8 44 7 .298 .368 .486 .854
11 Seasons 5316 4793 730 1231 194 609 113 .257 .323 .444 .767
AVG HR RBI SB OPS
2023 .298 8 44 7 .854
11 Seasons .257 194 609 113 .767

Statcast Batting 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%
2015 24 2369 426 19 4.5 3.2 87.1 106.9 13.6 37.1 .240 .380 .311 .298 .354 28.9 22.0 7.0
2016 25 2586 431 29 6.7 4.7 88.0 108.4 15.4 31.8 .225 .411 .315 .303 .357 35.3 22.4 8.2
2017 26 1592 261 12 4.6 3.1 87.1 106.5 17.2 37.9 .243 .383 .314 .312 .356 30.0 22.0 9.8
2018 27 2881 510 23 4.5 3.3 86.8 107.1 15.5 34.9 .245 .380 .307 .305 .337 32.1 18.6 8.7
2019 28 2965 556 47 8.5 6.3 88.9 108.2 14.9 34.0 .272 .495 .373 .363 .378 38.1 13.7 11.6
2020 29 984 161 8 5.0 3.4 86.2 108.0 19.3 32.9 .209 .352 .299 .287 .313 28.6 21.2 10.6
2021 30 2923 509 50 9.8 6.9 89.7 109.5 20.3 35.2 .249 .459 .368 .336 .385 41.3 20.2 9.1
2022 31 2776 547 37 6.8 5.1 87.3 110.1 19.9 32.4 .243 .394 .317 .306 .333 34.9 16.6 7.3
2023 32 877 179 9 5.0 3.7 88.5 107.6 16.1 36.9 .259 .406 .368 .326 .346 41.9 15.6 9.9
Player 19953 3580 234 6.5 4.7 87.9 110.1 16.9 34.5 .245 .414 .332 .318 .355 34.9 18.9 9.0
MLB 6.8 4.7 88.4 122.4 12.1 33.0 .245 .405 .316 .315 .368 36.0 22.1 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.




Fastball: 4 Seam, 2 Seam, Cutter, Sinker. Offspeed: Split, Change, Fork, Screw. Breaking: Slider, Curve, Knuckle, Sweeper, Slurve, Other
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Batted Ball Profile

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2015 39.0 22.1 31.7 7.3 38.5 36.2 25.4 3.3 30.3 27.0 24.6 8.0 4.5 3.2
2016 40.4 29.0 24.1 6.5 39.2 35.5 25.1 4.2 28.8 30.6 19.7 7.7 6.7 4.7
2017 38.3 25.7 28.0 8.0 38.3 37.9 23.8 3.1 26.4 32.6 25.3 7.3 4.6 3.1
2018 39.8 24.7 26.7 8.8 42.2 35.5 21.8 3.5 27.6 31.2 25.3 6.7 4.5 3.3
2019 41.0 25.5 25.2 8.3 40.3 35.6 24.1 3.1 29.3 29.1 23.0 5.2 8.5 6.3
2020 32.9 32.3 22.4 12.4 39.1 34.8 26.1 3.7 24.8 38.5 19.9 6.8 5.0 3.4
2021 31.0 36.7 23.2 9.0 47.0 33.6 19.4 1.8 23.6 33.4 22.4 8.3 9.8 6.9
2022 33.6 34.0 21.8 10.6 43.5 34.0 22.5 3.8 24.1 35.3 23.8 6.2 6.8 5.1
2023 39.1 32.4 22.3 6.1 45.3 33.5 21.2 3.4 29.6 29.6 21.8 10.1 5.0 3.7
Player 37.3 29.0 25.2 8.5 41.7 35.1 23.0 3.3 27.1 31.6 23.1 7.1 6.5 4.7
MLB 44.8 23.2 24.9 7.1 36.8 37.7 25.4 3.9 33.0 24.6 24.4 5.8 6.8 4.7
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

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 %
2023 4-Seamer -0.1 0 298 34.0 82 .217 .420 .340 14.4 11.0 14.5 .247 .421 .345 49.2
2023 Slider 3.5 7 195 22.2 55 .333 .510 .405 36.6 29.1 28.1 .241 .384 .299 37.1
2023 Sinker 1.7 2 123 14.0 37 .375 .469 .451 9.7 8.1 14.3 .342 .475 .402 44.8
2023 Cutter 5.1 3 63 7.2 20 .316 .632 .458 22.2 10.0 18.2 .229 .320 .261 29.4
2023 Changeup 1.8 1 60 6.8 12 .182 .455 .375 27.3 16.7 15.4 .199 .403 .290 22.2
2023 Sweeper 8.5 5 58 6.6 17 .400 .600 .462 25.0 17.6 12.5 .290 .413 .348 33.3
2023 Curveball 1.9 1 58 6.6 14 .357 .357 .321 13.0 14.3 11.8 .262 .350 .263 41.7
2023 Splitter 31.7 3 11 1.3 1 1.000 4.000 2.000 14.3 0.0 0.0 .531 1.538 .861 100.0
2023 Slurve -30.4 -1 4 0.5 3 .000 .000 .000 33.3 33.3 100.0 .127 .141 .119 50.0
2023 Forkball 0.8 0 4 0.5 -- -- -- 100.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2022 4-Seamer -0.3 -3 927 33.4 231 .214 .428 .331 17.1 13.9 13.7 .254 .474 .356 42.7
2022 Slider 0.4 2 627 22.6 146 .246 .366 .317 32.5 22.6 18.4 .240 .326 .276 29.8
2022 Sinker -0.3 -1 363 13.1 119 .264 .464 .335 8.7 9.2 13.6 .289 .446 .339 38.6
2022 Changeup 0.0 0 268 9.7 74 .203 .319 .268 21.2 20.3 13.6 .161 .227 .205 29.6
2022 Curveball 4.6 10 222 8.0 55 .412 .745 .509 13.0 14.5 11.9 .263 .440 .323 36.4
2022 Cutter 0.3 1 216 7.8 57 .269 .385 .325 22.9 15.8 18.8 .257 .405 .310 20.5
2022 Sweeper -1.1 -1 132 4.8 34 .188 .281 .212 32.3 26.5 20.0 .160 .247 .188 20.8
2022 Splitter 17.1 3 20 0.7 8 .375 .875 .519 41.7 37.5 33.3 .193 .428 .259 40.0
2022 Slurve 7.3 0 1 0.0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2021 4-Seamer 0.9 9 954 32.6 264 .295 .658 .435 17.3 15.5 14.9 .282 .566 .394 50.3
2021 Slider 0.6 4 611 20.9 119 .181 .419 .302 34.7 36.1 21.8 .144 .275 .239 27.4
2021 Sinker 1.0 4 421 14.4 122 .349 .587 .436 12.9 8.2 12.7 .323 .540 .404 38.4
2021 Changeup -0.7 -2 328 11.2 80 .260 .416 .320 26.3 26.3 19.4 .228 .345 .264 37.5
2021 Cutter 1.3 4 277 9.5 66 .238 .571 .355 19.1 19.7 16.7 .217 .438 .292 43.1
2021 Curveball 0.5 1 253 8.7 61 .204 .370 .284 26.8 24.6 16.0 .213 .403 .299 32.5
2021 Sweeper -2.8 -1 51 1.7 9 .000 .000 .078 21.1 33.3 16.7 .144 .166 .202 20.0
2021 Splitter -1.7 0 25 0.9 2 .000 .000 .000 14.3 0.0 0.0 .603 .657 .552 50.0
2020 4-Seamer -0.8 -3 334 33.9 86 .247 .390 .347 20.1 17.4 15.0 .262 .450 .343 38.7
2020 Sinker 0.3 1 167 17.0 42 .343 .400 .412 11.3 9.5 10.5 .250 .344 .334 25.8
2020 Slider -2.0 -3 160 16.3 29 .040 .160 .166 42.6 27.6 17.4 .106 .174 .200 11.8
2020 Changeup 1.7 2 104 10.6 22 .158 .316 .268 37.2 36.4 21.6 .147 .206 .228 18.2
2020 Cutter 1.0 1 97 9.9 23 .261 .522 .328 21.2 17.4 11.8 .214 .425 .264 31.6
2020 Curveball 0.9 1 95 9.7 28 .231 .500 .334 14.6 25.0 18.9 .174 .357 .254 21.1
2020 Splitter -6.5 -1 11 1.1 3 .000 .000 .000 50.0 100.0 60.0 -- -- .000 --
2020 Sweeper -5.5 -1 10 1.0 2 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .183 .199 .165 0.0
2020 Slurve -3.6 0 4 0.4 1 .000 .000 .000 100.0 100.0 50.0 -- -- .000 --
2019 4-Seamer 1.9 18 980 33.1 241 .294 .642 .457 14.5 12.9 12.0 .283 .598 .412 43.9
2019 Slider 0.3 1 535 18.0 120 .243 .414 .314 25.8 20.8 14.6 .238 .427 .304 31.0
2019 Sinker 2.1 10 469 15.8 147 .321 .612 .439 9.1 8.2 11.9 .323 .598 .412 49.2
2019 Changeup 2.6 8 324 10.9 77 .273 .485 .392 26.8 18.2 13.7 .231 .345 .312 34.6
2019 Curveball 1.5 5 322 10.9 78 .286 .400 .350 19.2 12.8 9.9 .256 .363 .306 23.3
2019 Cutter -0.9 -2 215 7.3 54 .286 .388 .348 27.5 14.8 13.1 .260 .375 .309 29.3
2019 Sweeper -4.2 -1 26 0.9 6 .000 .000 .117 20.0 0.0 0.0 .070 .075 .173 0.0
2019 Splitter -4.0 -1 24 0.8 6 .000 .000 .117 25.0 16.7 8.3 .304 .355 .355 25.0
2019 Slurve -1.8 0 18 0.6 4 .000 .000 .175 20.0 0.0 0.0 .296 .796 .501 33.3
2018 4-Seamer -0.4 -3 925 32.1 222 .234 .484 .355 16.3 14.9 12.5 .254 .502 .372 44.9
2018 Sinker -0.6 -4 583 20.2 156 .301 .378 .344 10.9 10.9 13.5 .302 .431 .351 44.1
2018 Slider 0.2 1 487 16.9 116 .228 .289 .243 25.9 27.6 19.3 .194 .242 .200 14.6
2018 Changeup -0.5 -1 304 10.6 72 .231 .323 .282 28.9 20.8 17.0 .220 .293 .253 17.3
2018 Curveball 3.9 12 294 10.2 69 .333 .470 .364 22.7 20.3 13.9 .253 .311 .265 11.5
2018 Cutter -1.2 -2 177 6.1 41 .162 .270 .239 31.5 34.1 23.7 .203 .293 .243 29.2
2018 Splitter -2.6 -1 49 1.7 14 .154 .154 .179 38.1 35.7 21.7 .157 .249 .215 25.0
2018 Sweeper 2.3 1 35 1.2 6 .250 .500 .442 25.0 0.0 0.0 .312 .883 .564 25.0
2018 Slurve 2.6 0 12 0.4 2 .500 .500 .450 20.0 0.0 0.0 .056 .062 .051 0.0
2018 Knuckleball -7.3 0 5 0.2 1 .000 .000 .000 100.0 100.0 100.0 -- -- .000 --
2017 4-Seamer 0.5 3 547 34.4 121 .298 .500 .398 17.8 12.4 9.7 .273 .458 .360 33.0
2017 Sinker -0.8 -3 329 20.7 82 .225 .296 .294 18.0 18.3 22.7 .262 .431 .338 35.1
2017 Slider -0.9 -3 295 18.5 70 .226 .323 .291 37.9 35.7 24.5 .194 .257 .251 32.4
2017 Curveball 1.6 2 140 8.8 38 .263 .395 .308 21.5 21.1 12.7 .248 .326 .245 13.3
2017 Changeup 2.3 3 126 7.9 37 .212 .576 .364 39.0 32.4 31.6 .221 .449 .324 38.1
2017 Cutter -2.5 -3 107 6.7 21 .222 .333 .271 32.1 19.0 14.3 .270 .379 .364 26.7
2017 Splitter -6.2 -2 29 1.8 9 .000 .000 .000 57.1 66.7 37.5 .062 .069 .056 0.0
2017 Sweeper -2.4 0 10 0.6 4 .250 .250 .225 16.7 0.0 0.0 .235 .281 .223 0.0
2017 Slurve 16.8 1 4 0.3 2 1.000 1.000 .800 0.0 0.0 0.0 .503 .542 .577 0.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2013 71 263 -1 1 0 1 -1
2014 255 1,078 1 -6 9 2 6
2015 599 2,360 -18 -15 12 5 -17
2016 620 2,582 4 -18 13 8 6
2017 385 1,589 -8 -13 12 8 -2
2018 703 2,888 -11 -21 21 12 1
2019 738 2,929 14 -16 27 14 38
2020 267 1,109 -6 -7 9 6 1
2021 724 2,923 -3 -17 24 15 18
2022 724 2,776 -10 -13 23 11 11
2023 242 877 6 -1 10 5 21
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Plate Discipline

Season Pitches Zone % Zone Swing % Zone Contact % Chase % Chase Contact % Edge % 1st Pitch Swing % Swing % Whiff % Meatball % Meatball Swing %
2015 2,369 52.5 61.6 84.3 24.1 57.6 43.1 17.0 43.8 22.4 7.7 75.8
2016 2,586 50.6 65.6 81.3 25.4 62.0 43.5 17.7 45.7 23.6 7.3 78.4
2017 1,592 49.5 66.2 82.9 23.9 51.0 44.3 22.0 44.8 25.4 8.0 80.3
2018 2,881 49.7 64.4 86.3 23.6 61.2 42.9 19.9 43.8 20.3 7.0 76.1
2019 2,965 48.6 66.5 87.6 19.2 61.1 43.0 23.7 42.2 18.3 6.9 78.5
2020 984 48.9 70.7 81.2 18.7 59.6 41.6 29.2 44.1 23.3 7.8 75.3
2021 2,923 49.2 69.7 85.6 21.3 55.7 42.3 29.7 45.1 21.5 7.9 82.7
2022 2,776 48.4 71.1 87.6 24.8 57.2 43.6 29.4 47.2 20.6 7.1 84.2
2023 877 48.9 75.3 86.7 21.4 54.2 41.8 36.8 47.8 20.8 6.5 87.7
Player 19,953 49.7 67.1 85.2 22.7 58.3 43.0 24.1 44.8 21.5 7.3 79.6
MLB 48.5 66.9 82.0 28.4 58.2 42.6 29.5 47.1 24.7 7.3 76.1
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Year xwOBA xBA xSLG xISO xOBP Brl Brl% EV Max EV Hard
Hit%
K% BB% Whiff% Chase
Rate
Speed OAA Arm
Strength
2015 31 25 39 47 22 49 43 25 52 21 27 46 43 83 93
2016 25 6 42 60 11 61 49 32 63 42 30 51 41 70 85
2017 33 27 24 29 45 18 31 30 50 21 38 63 37 73 84 5
2018 30 38 28 28 33 42 23 14 53 25 65 53 71 76 81 70
2019 82 75 78 73 83 86 56 41 58 43 89 82 84 95 76 19
2020 12 9 15 29 16 35 27 11 49 9 56 69 64 91 80 1 17
2021 60 42 70 73 42 85 63 59 65 52 58 54 72 88 87 90 16
2022 39 42 47 50 30 74 41 18 63 22 79 39 76 74 89 95 15
2023 48 60 44 37 60 41 24 39 33 54 84 60 73 87 85 95 20
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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 22.4 27 26.7 0 10 14 15 55.6
2017 22.7 10 10.4 0 6 9 4 40.0
2018 22.6 15 17.1 -2 8 11 8 53.3
2019 22.6 33 31.4 2 19 15 19 57.6
2020 22.9 9 9.4 0 7 6 4 44.4
2021 23.6 45 42.7 2 15 27 23 51.1
2022 23.0 26 23.7 2 16 20 8 30.8
2023 22.4 8 8.0 0 2 5 5 62.5
Player 22.9 173 169.5 4 83 107 86 49.7

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2016 27 25 26 28 28 28 30 24 23 23 28 32 24 26 28 26 23 23 28 29 26 23 31 31 25 27 26 33 26 29 23
2017 10 10 12 9 13 11 14 9 9 7 12 16 7 9 10 9 6 8 12 11 12 10 14 12 7 9 10 14 11 12 8
2018 15 21 15 15 16 16 19 16 16 12 16 21 18 16 17 21 14 19 18 20 18 18 22 19 11 14 15 18 20 17 15
2019 33 36 27 33 34 30 34 29 26 24 28 33 38 29 30 31 31 28 30 31 31 37 38 37 29 30 27 35 41 30 26
2020 9 10 11 12 11 9 12 8 5 8 7 11 10 9 9 8 10 9 10 9 9 10 11 9 8 9 8 10 9 11 9
2021 45 48 47 38 48 35 49 37 36 34 40 50 43 34 40 47 35 35 49 48 40 48 52 44 38 35 52 53 43 42 42
2022 26 12 23 17 24 25 27 20 22 18 22 34 22 26 24 25 21 21 24 25 26 28 29 27 17 19 27 30 27 25 25
2023 8 5 7 8 10 8 8 6 8 7 8 9 9 8 8 9 8 5 10 10 8 7 10 10 6 6 9 8 9 8 7
Player 173 167 168 160 184 162 193 149 145 133 161 206 171 157 166 176 148 148 181 183 170 181 207 189 141 149 174 201 186 174 155
! 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 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-  
Exit Velocity 87.1 88.0 0.9 87.1 -0.9 86.8 -0.3 88.9 2.1 86.2 -2.7 89.7 3.5 87.3 -2.4 88.5 1.2
Launch Angle 13.6 15.4 1.8 17.2 1.8 15.5 -1.7 14.9 -0.6 19.3 4.4 20.3 1.0 19.9 -0.4 16.1 -3.8
Barrel % 4.5 6.7 2.2 4.6 -2.1 4.5 -0.1 8.5 4.0 5.0 -3.5 9.8 4.8 6.8 -3.0 5.0 -1.8
Hard Hit % 28.9 35.3 6.4 30.0 -5.3 32.1 2.1 38.1 6.0 28.6 -9.5 41.3 12.7 34.9 -6.4 41.9 7.0
Sweet Spot % 37.1 31.8 -5.3 37.9 6.1 34.9 -3.0 34.0 -0.9 32.9 -1.1 35.2 2.3 32.4 -2.8 36.9 4.5
xBA .240 .225 -0.015 .243 0.018 .245 0.002 .272 0.027 .209 -0.063 .249 0.040 .243 -0.006 .259 0.016
BA .257 .238 -0.019 .249 0.011 .255 0.006 .285 0.030 .223 -0.062 .265 0.042 .248 -0.017 .298 0.050
xwOBA .298 .303 0.005 .312 0.009 .305 -0.007 .363 0.058 .287 -0.076 .336 0.049 .306 -0.030 .326 0.020
wOBA .311 .315 0.004 .314 -0.001 .307 -0.007 .373 0.066 .299 -0.074 .368 0.069 .317 -0.051 .368 0.051
xSLG .380 .411 0.031 .383 -0.028 .380 -0.003 .495 0.115 .352 -0.143 .459 0.107 .394 -0.065 .406 0.012
SLG .405 .435 0.030 .398 -0.037 .388 -0.010 .522 0.134 .374 -0.148 .538 0.164 .429 -0.109 .488 0.059
K% 22.0 22.4 0.4 22.0 -0.4 18.6 -3.4 13.7 -4.9 21.2 7.5 20.2 -1.0 16.6 -3.6 15.6 -1.0
BB% 7.0 8.2 1.2 9.8 1.6 8.7 -1.1 11.6 2.9 10.6 -1.0 9.1 -1.5 7.3 -1.8 9.9 2.6
Swing % 43.8 45.7 1.9 44.8 -0.9 43.8 -1.0 42.2 -1.6 44.1 1.9 45.1 1.0 47.2 2.1 47.8 0.6
Whiff% 22.4 23.6 1.2 25.4 1.8 20.3 -5.1 18.3 -2.0 23.3 5.0 21.5 -1.8 20.6 -0.9 20.8 0.2