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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: 1.6
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.

FIP5.20

K/96.6

WHIP1.75

WAR-.2

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	MIN/CLE	33	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	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	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	33.2	1	1	0	34	10	25	15	2.67	3.64	1.46	6.7	4.0	67	92	0.3

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2016	WSH	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.0	-119	-0.0	—

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.