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Matt Belisle

Age: 38
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #34

Born: June 6, 1980 in Austin, TX, United States
MLB debut: September 7, 2003

dbWAR: 11.3
IP: 34.1
ERA: 7.86
FIP: 5.20
K/9: 6.6
FIP−: 125

Matt Belisle was a relief pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. In 2018 he struck out 25 batters over 34.1 innings across 33 appearances, going 1-1. His ERA of 7.86 was 89.5% higher than the league average of 4.15 — the second worst on his team, and 524th of 530 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.20 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 23.8% of swings (12.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.4%. His -0.2 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, 2018 regular season.

FIP5.20

K/96.6

WHIP1.75

WAR-.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2018; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2018	MIN/CLE	33	0	34.1	1	1	0	49	30	25	11	7.86	5.20	1.75	6.6	2.9	190	125	-0.2
2017	MIN	62	0	60.1	2	2	9	48	27	54	22	4.03	4.07	1.16	8.1	3.3	92	93	0.6
2016	WSH	40	0	46.0	0	0	0	43	9	32	7	1.76	2.84	1.09	6.3	1.4	42	68	1.0
2015	STL	34	0	33.2	1	1	0	34	10	25	15	2.67	3.64	1.46	6.7	4.0	67	92	0.3
2014	COL	66	1	64.2	4	7	0	74	35	43	19	4.87	3.74	1.44	6.0	2.6	130	100	0.6
2013	COL	72	0	73.0	5	7	0	76	35	62	15	4.32	3.03	1.25	7.6	1.8	112	78	1.3
2012	COL	80	0	80.0	3	8	3	91	33	69	18	3.71	2.97	1.36	7.8	2.0	92	74	1.8
2011	COL	74	0	72.0	10	4	0	77	26	58	14	3.25	3.07	1.26	7.3	1.8	82	78	1.3
2010	COL	76	0	92.0	7	5	1	84	30	91	16	2.93	2.68	1.09	8.9	1.6	72	66	2.3
2009	COL	24	0	31.0	3	1	0	35	19	22	5	5.52	4.77	1.29	6.4	1.5	128	110	0.1
2008	CIN	6	6	29.2	1	4	0	47	24	14	6	7.28	4.55	1.79	4.2	1.8	168	105	0.3
2007	CIN	30	30	177.2	8	9	0	212	105	125	43	5.32	4.58	1.44	6.3	2.2	119	102	2.0
2006	CIN	30	2	40.0	2	0	0	43	16	26	19	3.60	5.12	1.55	5.8	4.3	80	113	0.0
2005	CIN	60	5	85.2	4	8	1	101	42	59	26	4.41	4.43	1.48	6.2	2.7	103	103	0.5

Batting Regular season


2016	WSH	4	4	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.0	-119	-0.0
2014	COL	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.2	-106	-0.0
2013	COL	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.2	-113	-0.0
2012	COL	3	3	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.7	-102	-0.0
2011	COL	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	1.000	.500	.500	0.0%	0.0%	.643	+0.7	293	0.1
2010	COL	5	7	1	2	0	0	2	.250	.400	.500	.250	.500	0.0%	28.6%	.409	+0.5	143	0.1
2009	COL	3	4	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.1	-118	-0.1
2008	CIN	6	11	1	0	0	0	3	.125	.125	.125	.000	.200	0.0%	27.3%	.112	-2.0	-50	-0.1
2007	CIN	28	61	3	1	1	3	32	.060	.113	.080	.020	.167	4.9%	52.5%	.099	-12.1	-59	-0.4
2006	CIN	4	7	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	28.6%	.000	-2.0	-120	-0.1
2005	CIN	4	8	1	0	0	0	3	.143	.143	.143	.000	.250	0.0%	37.5%	.128	-1.3	-37	-0.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Matt Belisle's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	BB	SO	WHIP	K/9
2017 Post	MIN	Wild Card	1	1.0	0	0	0.00	0.0
2009 Post	COL	NLDS	2	2.0	1	2	0.50	9.0
2005–2018		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	3	3.0	1	2	0.33	6.0

Postseason batting

Postseason Matt Belisle's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2009 Post	COL	NLDS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2018. 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	76	70	24	2	5	10	.343	.387	.500	.381	13.2%
vs RHB	86	76	25	4	6	15	.329	.395	.592	.421	17.4%

Pitch sequencing

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

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Pitch arsenal

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

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	45.1%	264	90.3	2,044	48.1%	16.5%	58	.397	1.108
Slider	36.2%	212	85.5	2,092	49.1%	33.9%	56	.286	.697
Sinker	8.7%	51	91.4	1,996	35.3%	14.8%	14	—	—
Curveball	7.7%	45	73.5	2,501	33.3%	21.1%	12	—	—
Unknown	2.2%	13	—	—	38.5%	22.2%	6	—	—

Matt Belisle'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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Similar players

Nearest 2018 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Andrew KittredgeTB

ERA: 7.75
FIP: 5.38
SO: 30
WAR: -0.3

Chris VolstadCWS

ERA: 6.27
FIP: 5.36
SO: 29
WAR: -0.4

Matt MooreTEX

ERA: 6.79
FIP: 5.25
SO: 86
WAR: -0.3

Joe BiaginiTOR

ERA: 6.00
FIP: 5.47
SO: 53
WAR: -0.7

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.