Marcus Semien
2B | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 0" 195LBS | Age: 34
Draft: 2011 | Rd: 6, #201, Chicago White Sox | UC Berkeley
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2022 724 657 101 163 26 25 .248 .304 .429 .733
2023 753 670 122 185 29 14 .276 .348 .478 .826
2024 718 650 101 154 23 8 .237 .308 .391 .699
12 Seasons 6,539 5,895 906 1,505 238 128 .255 .323 .440 .763
AVG HR SB OPS
2022 .248 26 25 .733
2023 .276 29 14 .826
2024 .237 23 8 .699
12 Seasons .255 238 128 .763
MLB Percentile Rankings
Hits Spray Chart

Statcast Batting Statistics

Season Age Pitches Batted
Balls
Barrels Barrel % Barrel/PA Exit
Velocity
Max EV Launch
Angle
LA 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 2799 565 37 6.5 4.9 88.4 108.6 19.1 37.5 .262 .427 .354 .333 .349 37.0 14.6 9.6
2024 33 2626 546 36 6.6 5.0 87.4 112.1 17.0 33.0 .251 .391 .306 .313 .328 35.2 14.6 8.9
Player 24501 4512 298 6.6 4.8 87.9 112.1 17.2 34.6 .247 .413 .330 .319 .351 35.0 18.0 9.0
MLB 7.0 4.8 88.5 122.4 12.3 33.2 .245 .405 .316 .315 .368 36.5 22.2 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 34.0 35.4 23.5 7.1 46.9 32.9 20.2 2.7 24.1 36.1 23.5 6.9 6.5 4.9
2024 39.6 30.0 22.5 7.9 46.0 33.7 20.3 4.8 26.7 31.1 25.5 4.8 6.6 5.0
Player 37.1 29.8 24.8 8.4 42.7 34.8 22.4 3.4 26.6 32.2 23.5 6.7 6.6 4.8
MLB 44.4 23.8 24.7 7.1 37.2 37.5 25.2 3.9 32.6 24.8 24.4 5.9 7.0 4.8
! 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 %
2024 4-Seam Fastball 0.9 7 773 29.4 236 .248 .438 .342 13.6 9.3 11.7 .284 .487 .370 45.7
2024 Slider -1.2 -6 551 21.0 128 .218 .311 .257 33.5 25.0 20.1 .191 .248 .220 21.6
2024 Sinker -0.1 0 407 15.5 128 .265 .402 .338 10.7 10.9 13.6 .303 .454 .358 38.8
2024 Changeup 2.3 6 260 9.9 71 .246 .410 .378 22.6 16.9 13.2 .200 .285 .280 26.5
2024 Cutter 0.6 1 245 9.3 60 .255 .418 .334 13.5 3.3 4.4 .286 .467 .357 34.0
2024 Sweeper -1.0 -2 197 7.5 48 .182 .409 .284 32.1 29.2 20.3 .169 .249 .224 23.3
2024 Curveball 1.2 2 139 5.3 33 .219 .344 .255 19.7 6.1 4.5 .257 .416 .301 23.3
2024 Split-Finger -1.6 -1 45 1.7 11 .091 .091 .164 37.9 63.6 35.0 .137 .168 .133 50.0
2024 Slurve 0.1 0 9 0.3 1 .000 .000 .000 50.0 0.0 0.0 .221 .301 .200 0.0
2023 4-Seam Fastball 0.0 0 879 31.4 254 .235 .447 .351 9.6 8.7 10.6 .267 .488 .369 44.2
2023 Slider 1.7 10 576 20.6 142 .286 .516 .390 30.7 19.7 17.5 .255 .412 .325 30.0
2023 Sinker 2.8 11 405 14.5 119 .365 .625 .473 10.3 12.6 20.0 .304 .480 .380 42.7
2023 Changeup 1.2 3 293 10.5 66 .270 .476 .349 31.1 28.8 22.4 .246 .361 .280 34.1
2023 Cutter 1.0 2 212 7.6 60 .309 .400 .373 19.6 8.3 10.4 .285 .365 .317 22.0
2023 Curveball 2.3 4 190 6.8 39 .297 .459 .345 18.8 23.1 12.9 .223 .365 .273 39.3
2023 Sweeper 1.6 3 167 6.0 49 .255 .383 .310 20.3 16.3 11.8 .205 .311 .239 25.6
2023 Split-Finger 2.4 2 67 2.4 17 .188 .375 .265 21.2 17.6 10.0 .237 .347 .274 30.8
2023 Slurve -25.3 -1 5 0.2 3 .000 .000 .000 25.0 33.3 100.0 .113 .115 .105 50.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

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 834 3,092 3 -13 27 17 33
2024 716 2,626 -2 -21 18 10 6
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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 23.8 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 2,799 49.9 72.9 88.4 21.4 60.0 43.0 36.4 47.1 18.0 7.4 85.6
2024 2,626 48.9 75.9 88.1 25.2 56.0 43.1 35.6 50.0 20.2 8.2 92.1
Player 24,501 49.6 68.4 85.9 22.9 58.3 43.1 26.4 45.5 21.0 7.5 81.5
MLB 48.7 67.0 82.0 28.5 57.8 42.6 29.9 47.2 25.0 7.3 76.3
! 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
Bat
Speed
Squared-up
Rate
Swing
Length
2015 31 25 40 47 22 49 43 25 53 21 27 46 44 83 94
2016 25 6 42 60 11 61 49 32 63 42 30 51 40 70 86 8
2017 33 27 24 29 45 18 31 30 50 21 38 63 38 73 84 5
2018 30 38 28 28 33 42 23 14 53 25 65 53 71 76 81 68
2019 82 75 78 73 83 86 56 41 58 43 89 82 85 95 76 19
2020 13 9 15 29 16 35 27 11 49 9 56 69 64 91 81 1 14
2021 60 43 70 73 42 85 63 59 65 52 58 54 72 88 87 88 14
2022 39 43 47 50 31 74 41 18 63 22 79 39 76 74 88 94 15
2023 60 63 51 44 67 68 30 32 41 26 91 64 90 88 84 99 13
2024 45 55 43 38 56 68 36 19 82 22 91 61 75 72 81 100 10 10 90 13
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Expected Home Runs

Adjusted

Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2016 22.4 27 25.5 2 9 13 15 55.6
2017 22.7 10 8.3 2 8 8 3 30.0
2018 22.6 15 15.0 0 10 11 6 40.0
2019 22.6 33 30.3 3 20 15 18 54.5
2020 22.9 9 9.3 0 7 6 4 44.4
2021 23.6 45 41.4 4 16 23 26 57.8
2022 23.0 26 23.7 2 16 20 8 30.8
2023 22.5 31 31.6 -1 14 27 10 32.3
2024 22.6 23 26.2 -3 12 29 6 26.1
Player 22.8 219 211.4 8 112 152 96 43.8
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted

Year HR
2016 27 24 24 26 27 27 28 23 22 22 27 31 23 26 27 25 22 22 26 27 25 23 30 28 23 26 25 32 25 28 21
2017 10 8 10 7 11 9 12 6 6 4 10 13 5 8 8 8 4 6 10 9 9 9 12 10 4 7 8 12 9 10 6
2018 15 19 11 13 14 14 17 13 13 10 14 19 17 15 15 19 12 17 16 18 16 17 20 17 9 12 13 15 18 15 13
2019 33 35 26 32 33 29 33 28 25 23 26 32 36 29 29 30 30 27 29 30 28 37 37 36 26 29 25 34 39 29 26
2020 9 10 11 10 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 46 44 36 46 46 47 34 35 32 39 48 41 32 39 44 34 34 47 46 39 47 50 43 36 34 50 51 41 41 41
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 31 18 29 24 35 32 36 26 29 28 33 39 30 29 34 36 34 26 37 40 29 30 40 37 25 25 33 37 33 35 29
2024 23 13 27 19 25 29 33 22 23 20 31 33 24 22 26 21 23 19 33 36 28 30 37 31 16 24 28 29 28 32 25
Player 219 185 205 184 226 220 245 180 180 165 209 260 208 196 211 216 190 181 232 240 209 231 266 238 164 185 217 250 229 226 195
Note: xHR tells how many of this player's home runs would have been out of other stadiums. The "Adjusted" view here accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects using Statcast Park Factor data.
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Year to Year Changes

Metric 2015 2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-   2024 +/-  
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 88.4 1.1 87.4 -1.0
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 19.1 -0.8 17.0 -2.1
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 6.5 -0.3 6.6 0.1
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 37.0 2.1 35.2 -1.8
LA 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 37.5 5.1 33.0 -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 .262 0.019 .251 -0.011
BA .257 .238 -0.019 .249 0.011 .255 0.006 .285 0.030 .223 -0.062 .265 0.042 .248 -0.017 .276 0.028 .237 -0.039
xwOBA .298 .303 0.005 .312 0.009 .305 -0.007 .363 0.058 .287 -0.076 .336 0.049 .306 -0.030 .333 0.027 .313 -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 .354 0.037 .306 -0.048
xSLG .380 .411 0.031 .383 -0.028 .380 -0.003 .495 0.115 .352 -0.143 .459 0.107 .394 -0.065 .427 0.033 .391 -0.036
SLG .405 .435 0.030 .398 -0.037 .388 -0.010 .522 0.134 .374 -0.148 .538 0.164 .429 -0.109 .478 0.049 .391 -0.087
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 14.6 -2.0 14.6 0.0
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 9.6 2.3 8.9 -0.7
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 47.1 -0.1 50.0 2.9
Whiff% 22.4 23.8 1.4 25.4 1.6 20.3 -5.1 18.3 -2.0 23.3 5.0 21.5 -1.8 20.6 -0.9 18.0 -2.6 20.2 2.2
In Zone % 52.5 50.6 -1.9 49.5 -1.1 49.7 0.2 48.6 -1.1 48.9 0.3 49.2 0.3 48.4 -0.8 49.9 1.5 48.9 -1.0
Out of Zone % 47.5 49.4 1.9 50.5 1.1 50.3 -0.2 51.4 1.1 51.1 -0.3 50.8 -0.3 51.6 0.8 50.1 -1.5 51.1 1.0
Out of Zone Swing % 24.1 25.4 1.3 23.9 -1.5 23.6 -0.3 19.2 -4.4 18.7 -0.5 21.3 2.6 24.8 3.5 21.4 -3.4 25.2 3.8
First Pitch Swing % 17.0 17.7 0.7 22.0 4.3 19.9 -2.1 23.7 3.8 29.2 5.5 29.7 0.5 29.4 -0.3 36.4 7.0 35.6 -0.8
First Pitch Strike % 58.2 57.0 -1.2 58.0 1.0 61.3 3.3 63.3 2.0 62.7 -0.6 59.5 -3.2 60.8 1.3 60.9 0.1 60.4 -0.5
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts R 607 77 12.7 .314 .325
2017 Shifts R 385 11 2.9 .310 .381
2018 Shifts R 701 65 9.3 .310 .289
2019 Shifts R 735 208 28.3 .371 .372
2020 Shifts R 235 96 40.9 .330 .256
2021 Shifts R 684 271 39.6 .355 .381
2022 Shifts R 724 545 75.3 .320 .316
2023 Shades R 751 82 10.9 .359 .321
2024 Shades R 716 147 20.5 .290 .368
! 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 %
2013 63 15.1 47.6% 0.0% 61 21.0 0.0% 8.2%
2014 329 15.3 47.7% 0.9% 208 22.6 1.9% 10.6%
2015 682 16.0 41.5% 3.1% 448 21.9 10.7% 15.2%
2016 765 16.4 38.4% 3.0% 475 21.3 8.4% 11.2%
2017 477 15.2 48.4% 0.2% 285 21.0 2.1% 7.4%
2018 965 15.6 42.4% 1.0% 442 20.9 3.2% 5.4%
2019 1101 15.7 39.8% 1.4% 377 21.8 1.3% 8.2%
2020 302 16.8 26.8% 2.3% 172 21.8 0.6% 5.2%
2021 918 16.1 36.4% 1.0% 486 21.6 2.1% 8.0%
2022 915 16.3 35.8% 1.0% 357 21.6 1.1% 5.0%
2023 915 15.0 49.8% 0.2% 381 18.9 7.6% 0.5%
2024 817 15.0 50.4% 0.9% 309 18.6 7.1% 0.3%
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Statcast Rankings