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Matt Riley
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Born
- August 2, 1979 in Antioch, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- September 9, 1999
- dbWAR
- -.3 Regular season, 2005 only
- IP
- 12.2
- ERA
- 9.95
- FIP
- 7.05
- K/9
- 2.8
- FIP−
- 164 100 = avg
Matt Riley was a relief pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2005 he struck out 4 batters over 12.2 innings across 7 appearances, going 1-0. His ERA of 9.95 was 131.8% higher than the league average of 4.29. Stripping out defence, his 7.05 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 11.6% of swings (4.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 16.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 6.5%. His -0.3 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.
League context
Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2005 regular season.
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | TEX | 7 | 0 | 12.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 9.95 | 7.05 | 2.05 | 2.8 | 7.1 | 232 | 164 | -0.3 | — |
Platoon splits
How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 27 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 2 | .200 | .407 | .250 | .332 | 7.4% |
| vs RHB | 35 | 30 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 2 | .400 | .457 | .667 | .477 | 5.7% |
Not in the 2005 data: pitch types, recorded in every park from 2008. 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.