Sean Doolittle Biography
Sean Robert Doolittle is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball. The Oakland Athletics selected Doolittle in the first round in the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft, as a first baseman/outfielder. He made his MLB debut in 2012.
Sean Doolittle Age
Sean was born on September 26, 1986
Sean Doolittle Wife
Sean is married to Eireann Dolan in 2017. Eireann Dolan is a writer, graduate student in religion, and former broadcaster for CSN California. She is well known for her work around charities and social issues in collaboration with her husband, Washington Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle.
Sean Doolittle Contract
Doolittle signed a five-year, $10.5 million extension with the Athletics on April 18, 2014.
Sean Doolittle Stats
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Sean Doolittle Salary
Sean Doolittle has an estimated net worth of 1.55 million US dollars. Sean has earned his money from his successful career as a professional baseballer.
Sean Doolittle Fangraphs
With two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, the Nationals up by just a single run, and George Springer on second base, Dave Martinez strolled to the mound to summon a pitching change. In the bullpen getting warm was left-hander Sean Doolittle, one of the two relievers Washington has been able to regularly trust this October.
Doolittle has been a National for two-and-a-half seasons now, and though he could become a free agent at season’s end, he has a team option that is almost assuredly to be picked up. He represents just one of Mike Rizzo’s numerous midseason reliever pickups. In 2015, it was Jonathan Papelbon. In 2016, Mark Melancon. In 2017, Doolittle and Ryan Madson. And in 2019, it was a triad of Hunter Strickland, Roenis Elías, and Daniel Hudson. Rizzo has tried and tried again to build a bullpen; his success, at best, has been mixed. With Doolittle though, he struck gold.
The year he was acquired, Doolittle was lights-out down the stretch, pitching to a 2.40 ERA with Washington, though that was likely aided by an uncharacteristically low 5.1% home run per fly-ball rate. Still, in the NLDS that year, Doolittle faced nine hitters, struck out four of them, and did not allow a run, shutting the door on the Cubs in both Game 2 and Game 4.
Last year, Doolittle had the statistically best season of his career. He pitched to a 1.60 ERA, supported by career-bests in strikeout rate (37%) and walk rate (4%). He was the ninth-best reliever in the game by WAR, but it was overshadowed more by the Nationals’ poor season — they went 82-80 — and their lack of a postseason appearance.
Even despite all of these successes over the past two seasons, we’re looking at Doolittle now, in a year full of ups and downs. As Grant Paulsen of The Athletic put it on September 4:
Sean Doolittle Injury
Sean got right knee tendinitis injury during a game in august 2019 but has now returned with more energy.
Sean Doolittle Trade
The Nationals made their long-awaited strike for bullpen help, acquiring relievers Sean Doolittle and Ryan Madson from the Athletics, FOX Sports’ Ken Rosenthal reports (Twitter links). Right-hander Blake Treinen, minor league left-hander Jesus Luzardo and minor league third baseman Sheldon Neuse are headed to Oakland. The Nats have officially announced the move, adding that Joe Ross has been transferred to the 60-day DL to create roster space.
The trade ends months of speculation about how Washington would address its struggling bullpen, which sits last in baseball with a cumulative 5.34 ERA and -0.9 fWAR. The Nats were linked in trade rumors to seemingly every available reliever in the sport and finally settled on a familiar trade partner in Oakland.
Rosenthal reported yesterday that the Nationals were looking to add both Doolittle and Madson from the A’s in a single deal. Both Madson and Doolittle have closing experience and either could slide right into Washington’s open ninth-inning role, though the club could also alternate between the two depending on how matchups favor the right-handed Madson or the left-handed Doolittle.
The Nats are undoubtedly very familiar with Madson from his years pitching for the Phillies in the NL East, though that almost seems like another career for the 36-year-old, who missed all of 2012-14 due to injury before resurfacing as a shutdown reliever for the 2015 World Series champion Royals. Madson parlayed that comeback year into a three-year, $22MM deal with the A’s and has performed well in Oakland, posting a 3.03 ERA, 7.6 K/9 and 3.38 K/BB rate in 104 IP wearing in the green-and-gold.
Sean Doolittle Lookalike
In the baseball world, we’ve been blessed with a few striking doppelgangers. For example, lookalikes of Yu Darvish and Justin Turner have been spotted taking in a game or two over the years. But sometimes, it’s the players who are celebrity lookalikes.
Over the winter, Sean Doolittle and his wife, Eireann Dolan, attended a social event. Upon leaving, the couple spotted a group of teens on the D.C. metro. And — well:
Sean Doolittle College
He attended Shawnee High School, in Medford, New Jersey where he was a stand-out pitcher. A great hitter, Doolittle led Shawnee to a state championship. Doolittle played for the University of Virginia as both a starting pitcher and first baseman. He formerly held the record for wins in a career for a Virginia pitcher 22 which has since been passed by Danny Hultzen.In 2005 and 2006, Doolittle was named to the USA National (Collegiate) Baseball Team.
Sean Doolittle Blown Saves
Sean Doolittle was still searching for answers when he spoke to reporters after giving up six hits and four earned runs in his fifth blown save of the season, and second against New York in seven appearances in 2019.
In six innings of work against the Mets this year, the Washington Nationals’ 32-year-old left-hander has now given up 16 hits and 10 earned runs. Doolittle came on with a 6-3 lead and proceeded to give up a leadoff double by J.D. Davis, a single by Wilson Ramos, and a three-run home run by Todd Frazier, who hit a 94 MPH 1-2 fastball out to left for a game-tying blast, 6-6.
Sean Doolittle Career
The Oakland Athletics selected Doolittle in the first round, with the 41st overall selection, in the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft, as a first baseman/outfielder. He made his professional debut on June 18, 2007, and was expected to make his major league debut in 2009.
Despite being injured for most of the 2009 season, Doolittle was ranked tenth in Oakland’s farm system according to Baseball America. Doolittle missed the entire 2010 season while rehabbing from 2 knee surgeries. In the 2011 offseason, he was placed on Oakland’s 40-man roster to be protected from the Rule 5 draft. After missing more than two years, Doolittle converted back to pitching, making his professional pitching debut in the instructional league in Arizona in 2011.
Sean Doolittle Height
Sean stands tall at a height of 1.88 m.
Sean Doolittle News
It’s been a long time since we’ve been able to watch the Oakland A’s play in the World Series. If you’re under 30 years old, then you’ve never seen it. But along the way, countless great players and fun personalities and beloved favorites have worn the green and gold, and sometimes we get to see some of them play in the Fall Classic with their new teams.
Sean Doolittle is near the top of that list of 21st-century A’s icons, as both a star player and a memorable presence off the field. He was traded to the Washington Nationals in 2017, and now he’s on the sport’s biggest stage, facing off against the Houston Astros with a championship on the line.
It’s cool to see an old favorite get his chance to play in the World Series, but it was even cooler to see him get the job done in Game 1. With the Nats clinging to a late one-run lead, Doo was called on for a four-out save, and he delivered by retiring all four batters he faced. And even that description sells him a bit short.
Doolittle entered in the 8th inning, with one run already in and a precarious 5-4 lead. There were two outs, a runner on second base, and All-Star Michael Brantley at the plate. He got Brantley to line out to strand the potential tying run, and then in the 9th inning, he needed just nine more pitches to strike out Alex Bregman and induce lineouts from Yuli Gurriel and Carlos Correa.
All four of those hitters had wRC+ marks between 132 and 168 this year, and three of them are righties against the southpaw Doo. Brantley and Bregman were both All-Star starters this year, and Correa was two years ago (and only missed out on berths the last two summers because of injuries). Bregman is the front-runner for the MVP this year. And Doo got through all of them in just 13 pitches in the biggest game of his life to date.
As an aside, Doo’s opportunity was set up partly by George Springer, who nearly tied the game in the 8th off Daniel Hudson. Springer blasted the ball to the wall, but his failure to hustle out of the box (while admiring what he thought might be a homer) meant he only made it to second base when he could have easily reached third. The next batter, Jose Altuve, hit a liner to the outfield that may have allowed Springer to score (on a sac fly) if he’d been on the third. Instead, Doo came in and stranded him, with the lead intact.
Springer was still probably the best player on the Astros in Game 1, but he needed to make this one more play for the win and instead, he committed a crushing fundamental mistake at the worst moment. It’s a little disappointing that he chose not to own that error, offering an explanation that made zero sense.
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