LF · 2018

Matt Holliday

Age: 38
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 240 lb
Number: #7

Born: January 15, 1980 in Stillwater, OK, USA
MLB debut: April 16, 2004

dbWAR: 3.5
PA: 65
AVG: .283
OBP: .415
SLG: .434
wRC+: 133

Matt Holliday is a left fielder for the Colorado Rockies. In 2018 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 15 hits across 65 plate appearances in 25 games. His batting average was .283, 14.1% higher than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .415 clip and slugged .434, for an OPS of .849, 16.7% higher than the league mark of .728. He averaged 90.9 mph off the bat, hit 48.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.7% of them and made contact on 70.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 133 wRC+ puts his offence 33% above average. That comes to 0.4 dbWAR — +3.3 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, -1.1 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, 2018.

wRC+133

wOBA.381

ISO.151

BB%18.5%

WAR.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to +4.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	25	65	15	2	3	0	12	18	.283	.415	.434	.151	.394	18.5%	27.7%	.381	+3.3	133	0.4
2017	105	427	86	19	64	1	46	114	.231	.316	.432	.201	.273	10.8%	26.7%	.324	-0.1	99	0.2
2016	109	426	94	20	62	0	35	71	.246	.322	.461	.215	.253	8.2%	16.7%	.340	+6.2	115	1.4
2015	73	277	64	4	35	2	39	49	.279	.394	.410	.131	.335	14.1%	17.7%	.356	+8.6	130	1.5

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 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 LHP	40	32	10	1	8	8	.313	.450	.406	.390	20.0%
vs RHP	25	21	5	1	4	10	.238	.360	.476	.367	40.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 35 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 5.7%
Exit velocity: 90.9
Max exit velo: 110.2
Hard hit: 48.6%
Sweet spot: 31.4%
Launch angle: 12.8°

Barrel rate5.7%

Exit velocity90.9 mph

Hard hit rate48.6%

Contact rate70.0%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2018.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .247.

Situational hitting

How Matt Holliday hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	65	—	—	—	—	—	—	.283	.415	.434	.381
Bases empty	38	32	12	2	2	6	9	.375	.474	.625	.471
Runner on first · thin	14	12	2	0	0	2	6	.167	.286	.167	.226
Runners on	27	21	3	0	1	6	9	.143	.333	.143	.255
RISP · thin	13	9	1	0	1	4	3	.111	.385	.111	.285

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2018.

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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.