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2021 Hall of Fame Ballot Series: Dan Haren

Five facts about Dan Haren:

Dan Haren was selected to three All-Star teams. He started the 2007 All-Star game for the American League.

Haren led his league in games started three times, in strikeout-to-walk ratio three times, and in WHIP once (in 2009).

Haren received Cy Young votes twice. In 2009, Haren led the NL in WHIP (1.003) and strikeout-to-walk ratio (223 K vs. 38 walks in 229.1 IP). In 2011, Haren led the AL in starts (34) and strikeout-to-walk ratio (192 to 33 in 238.1 IP).

Haren led his league in fielding percentage five times, all with a fielding percentage of 1.000.

Dan Haren became the 13th pitcher in major-league history to record a win against all 30 current major-league teams when he defeated the Philadelphia Phillies on August 9, 2013, as a member of the Washington Nationals.

The first two tables below present Dan Haren's career as measured by Player won-lost records, in and out of context.

Season	Team	Age	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWORL	pWOPA

Basic Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
2003	SLN	22	15	4.0	6.7	-1.6	-2.3
2004	SLN	23	14	2.6	2.5	0.7	0.3
2005	OAK	24	34	11.8	11.0	2.6	1.0
2006	OAK	25	34	12.7	11.9	2.8	1.1
2007	OAK	26	34	12.3	11.0	3.3	1.6
2008	ARI	27	34	14.7	12.4	5.1	3.4
2009	ARI	28	37	14.9	12.0	5.7	4.1
+– 2010		29	37	13.8	14.8	1.5	-0.3
	ANA		14	5.2	4.7	1.2	0.5
	ARI		23	8.6	10.1	0.3	-0.8
2011	ANA	30	35	15.3	9.8	7.4	5.7
2012	ANA	31	31	11.3	12.4	0.8	-0.8
2013	WAS	32	31	11.3	14.4	-0.6	-2.2
2014	LAN	33	32	10.6	13.1	-0.2	-1.7
+– 2015		34	33	11.7	12.7	1.5	-0.1
	CHN		11	3.8	4.4	0.3	-0.2
	MIA		22	7.9	8.3	1.2	0.2
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			401	147.0	144.6	29.0	10.0
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			7	1.0	0.9	0.2	0.0
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			408	148.0	145.6	29.1	10.0

Season	Team	Age	Games	eWins	eLosses	eWORL	eWOPA

Expected Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
2003	SLN	22	15	4.5	6.2	-0.7	-1.4
2004	SLN	23	14	2.4	2.7	0.2	-0.1
2005	OAK	24	34	11.7	11.0	2.4	0.9
2006	OAK	25	34	12.6	12.1	2.5	0.8
2007	OAK	26	34	12.2	11.1	3.0	1.4
2008	ARI	27	34	15.0	12.1	5.7	4.0
2009	ARI	28	37	14.8	12.1	5.5	3.8
+– 2010		29	37	14.8	13.8	3.5	1.6
	ANA		14	5.8	4.2	2.3	1.7
	ARI		23	9.1	9.6	1.1	-0.0
2011	ANA	30	35	14.6	10.4	6.2	4.5
2012	ANA	31	31	11.4	12.4	0.9	-0.7
2013	WAS	32	31	11.6	14.1	0.0	-1.6
2014	LAN	33	32	10.8	12.9	0.3	-1.2
+– 2015		34	33	11.0	13.4	0.2	-1.3
	CHN		11	3.6	4.6	-0.1	-0.6
	MIA		22	7.4	8.8	0.3	-0.7
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			401	147.4	144.3	29.7	10.8
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			7	0.9	1.0	0.0	-0.1
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			408	148.3	145.3	29.7	10.6

This is Dan Haren's first year on the Hall-of-Fame ballot.

Vote Prediction

It is simply an honor for Dan Haren to appear on a Hall-of-Fame ballot.

Player Won-Lost Records and Dan Haren

As I noted above, Haren received Cy Young votes twice. His high finish was in 2009 when he finished 5th in NL Cy Young voting. Two years later, Haren finished 7th in AL Cy Young voting in 2011.

As measured by Player won-lost records, the 2011 season was Haren's best. That season, Haren had a traditional won-lost record of 16-10 with a 3.17 ERA in 238.1 innings with a WHIP of 1.024 and a strikeout-to-walk ratio of 5.82.

The next table shows the top pitchers of 2011 as measured by Player won-lost records.


Net Pitching Wins
		Context-Neutral					Context-Dependent
	Player	eWins	eLoss	Net eWins		Player	pWins	pLoss	Net pWins
1	Clayton Kershaw	14.8	10.1	4.7	1	Justin Verlander	16.3	9.5	6.8
2	Roy Halladay	13.6	9.2	4.4	2	Roy Halladay	14.6	8.2	6.3
3	Jered Weaver	14.5	10.4	4.1	3	Jered Weaver	15.3	9.5	5.8
4	Justin Verlander	14.9	11.0	3.9	4	Clayton Kershaw	15.1	9.8	5.4
5	Cliff P. Lee	14.5	11.2	3.3	5	Dan Haren	14.8	9.6	5.2
6	Dan Haren	13.8	10.5	3.3	6	Cliff P. Lee	15.3	10.3	5.0
7	Doug Fister	12.3	9.3	3.0	7	Ian Kennedy	15.2	10.4	4.7
8	Craig Kimbrel	6.9	4.0	2.9	8	Jose Valverde	7.8	3.6	4.2
9	Cole Hamels	12.8	10.1	2.7	9	C.C. Sabathia	14.7	10.5	4.2
10	Tim Hudson	12.8	10.2	2.6	10	Cole Hamels	13.4	9.5	3.9

Baseball Player won-lost records think that Haren deserved a bit better than 7th place in AL Cy Young voting.

Article last updated: November 22, 2020

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