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Mike Matheny
- Age
- 36
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Number
- #22
- Born
- September 22, 1970 in Reynoldsburg, OH, United States
- MLB debut
- April 7, 1994
- dbWAR
- .5 Regular season, 2005–2006 only
- PA
- 177
- AVG
- .231
- OBP
- .276
- SLG
- .338
- wRC+
- 54 100 = avg
Mike Matheny was a catcher for the San Francisco Giants. In 2006 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 18 RBIs, notching 37 hits across 177 plate appearances in 46 games. His batting average was .231, 14.1% lower than the league average of .269. He reached base at a .276 clip and slugged .338, for an OPS of .613, 20.2% lower than the league mark of .768 — the second worst on his team, and 389th of 430 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 79.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 54 wRC+ puts his offence 46% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -10.3 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, -1.6 on double plays, +3.0 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.
League context
Percentile among qualified batters, 2006 regular season.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2006. These terms sum to -3.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2006; his career began in 1994, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 47 | 44 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 3 | .364 | .404 | .500 | .391 | 6.4% |
| vs RHP | 131 | 117 | 21 | 2 | 6 | 27 | .179 | .227 | .274 | .220 | 20.6% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2006.
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Situational hitting
How Mike Matheny hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 177 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .231 | .276 | .338 | .267 |
| Bases empty | 91 | 88 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 24 | .182 | .209 | .295 | .222 |
| Runner on first | 35 | 32 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | .375 | .394 | .594 | .426 |
| Runners on | 87 | 73 | 21 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 6 | .288 | .345 | .384 | .315 |
| RISP | 52 | 41 | 9 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 2 | .220 | .314 | .220 | .240 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2006.
Not in the 2006 data: pitch locations, first recorded in 2007; exit velocity and launch angle, first recorded in 2015. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.
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wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.