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Matt Wise

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #38

Born: November 18, 1975 in Montclair, CA, United States
MLB debut: August 2, 2000

dbWAR: 1.7
IP: 7.0
ERA: 6.43
FIP: 6.42
K/9: 7.7
FIP−: 148

Matt Wise was a relief pitcher for the New York Mets. In 2008 he struck out 6 batters over 7.0 innings across 8 appearances, going 0-1. His ERA of 6.43 was 48.7% higher than the league average of 4.32. Stripping out defence, his 6.42 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 16.1% of swings (6.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.6%. His -0.1 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, 2008 regular season.

FIP6.42

K/97.7

WHIP1.86

WAR-.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2008; his career began in 2000, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2008	NYM	8	7.0	0	1	0	10	5	6	3	6.43	6.42	1.86	7.7	3.9	149	148	-0.1
2007	MIL	56	53.2	3	2	1	61	25	43	17	4.19	3.85	1.45	7.2	2.9	94	86	0.7
2006	MIL	40	44.1	5	6	0	45	19	27	14	3.86	4.77	1.33	5.5	2.8	85	105	0.1
2005	MIL	49	64.1	4	4	1	37	24	62	25	3.36	3.61	0.96	8.7	3.5	78	84	0.9

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2008; his career began in 2000, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2007	MIL	1	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.000	1.000	0.0%	0.0%	.899	+0.5	480	0.1
2006	MIL	1	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-125	-0.0
2005	MIL	1	1	1	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.000	1.000	0.0%	0.0%	.895	+0.5	486	0.1

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2008. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	12	11	4	1	1	1	.364	.417	.636	.457	8.3%
vs RHB	22	20	6	1	2	5	.300	.364	.550	.384	22.7%

Pitch sequencing

What Matt Wise throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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ChangeupFour-seam

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Changeup	53.0%	71	77.1	1,808	47.9%	22.9%	19	.316	1.087
Four-Seam Fastball	39.6%	53	84.4	2,287	41.5%	0.0%	9	—	—

Matt Wise's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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How these are computed

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.