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Matt Holliday

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

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

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dbWAR: 51.1
PA: 65
AVG: .283
OBP: .415
SLG: .434
wRC+: 133

Matt Holliday was 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, -0.3 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, +0.2 on double plays, -0.8 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 regular season.

wRC+133

wOBA.381

ISO.151

BB%18.5%

WAR.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These terms sum to +4.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting 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 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2018	COL	25	65	15	2	3	0	12	18	.283	.415	.434	.151	.394	18.5%	27.7%	.381	+3.3	133	0.4
2017	NYY	105	427	86	19	64	1	46	114	.231	.316	.432	.201	.273	10.8%	26.7%	.324	-0.1	99	-0.0
2016	STL	109	426	94	20	62	0	35	71	.246	.322	.461	.215	.253	8.2%	16.7%	.340	+6.2	115	1.4
2015	STL	73	277	64	4	35	2	39	49	.279	.394	.410	.131	.335	14.1%	17.7%	.356	+8.6	130	1.4
2014	STL	156	667	156	20	90	4	74	100	.272	.370	.441	.169	.298	11.1%	15.0%	.365	+25.8	132	3.7
2013	STL	141	602	156	22	94	6	69	86	.300	.389	.490	.190	.322	11.5%	14.3%	.387	+32.2	154	4.2
2012	STL	157	688	177	27	102	4	75	132	.295	.379	.497	.202	.337	10.9%	19.2%	.383	+34.7	145	4.7
2011	STL	124	516	132	22	75	2	60	93	.296	.388	.525	.229	.330	11.6%	18.0%	.401	+31.9	160	4.0
2010	STL	158	675	186	28	103	9	69	93	.312	.390	.532	.220	.331	10.2%	13.8%	.403	+41.6	156	5.7
2009	OAK/STL	156	670	182	24	109	14	72	101	.313	.394	.515	.201	.341	10.7%	15.1%	.396	+34.5	144	4.7
2008	COL	139	623	173	25	88	28	74	104	.321	.409	.538	.217	.359	11.9%	16.7%	.415	+42.2	151	6.0
2007	COL	158	713	216	36	137	11	63	126	.340	.405	.607	.267	.377	8.8%	17.7%	.435	+59.2	160	6.9
2006	COL	155	667	196	34	114	10	47	110	.326	.387	.586	.261	.351	7.0%	16.5%	.417	+44.9	147	5.1
2005	COL	124	526	147	19	87	14	36	79	.307	.361	.505	.198	.332	6.8%	15.0%	.378	+20.5	123	2.9

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 batting

Postseason Matt Holliday'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
2018 Post	COL	Postseason total	4	9	8	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	4	0	.250	.333	.375	.708
		Wild Card	1	3	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	.333	.333	.667	1.000
		NLDS	3	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	.200	.333	.200	.533
2017 Post	NYY	ALCS	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2015 Post	STL	NLDS	4	17	16	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	3	0	.125	.176	.125	.301
2014 Post	STL	Postseason total	9	38	37	5	9	1	0	1	3	1	6	0	.243	.263	.351	.615
		NLDS	4	16	15	3	4	0	0	1	3	1	5	0	.267	.313	.467	.779
		NLCS	5	22	22	2	5	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.227	.227	.273	.500
2013 Post	STL	Postseason total	17	71	69	10	17	4	1	4	10	2	11	0	.246	.268	.507	.775
		NLDS	5	21	20	4	6	1	0	1	2	1	2	0	.300	.333	.500	.833
		NLCS	6	25	25	2	5	2	0	1	3	0	4	0	.200	.200	.400	.600
		World Series	6	25	24	4	6	1	1	2	5	1	5	0	.250	.280	.625	.905
2012 Post	STL	Postseason total	12	54	49	5	11	1	0	1	7	2	10	1	.224	.296	.306	.602
		Wild Card	1	4	3	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	.667	.750	1.667	2.417
		NLDS	5	24	21	2	4	1	0	0	4	2	6	0	.190	.292	.238	.530
		NLCS	6	26	25	1	5	0	0	0	2	0	4	1	.200	.231	.200	.431
2011 Post	STL	Postseason total	16	62	51	13	15	3	0	1	5	10	14	0	.294	.419	.412	.831
		NLDS	4	10	9	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.222	.300	.222	.522
		NLCS	6	26	23	6	10	2	0	1	5	3	7	0	.435	.500	.652	1.152
		World Series	6	26	19	5	3	1	0	0	0	7	4	0	.158	.385	.211	.595
2009 Post	STL	NLDS	3	13	12	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	.167	.231	.417	.647
2007 Post	COL	Postseason total	11	47	45	6	13	0	0	5	10	1	12	0	.289	.319	.622	.941
		NLDS	3	13	13	2	3	0	0	2	3	0	3	0	.231	.231	.692	.923
		NLCS	4	17	15	3	5	0	0	2	4	1	6	0	.333	.412	.733	1.145
		World Series	4	17	17	1	5	0	0	1	3	0	3	0	.294	.294	.471	.765
2005–2018		Postseason total · 9 Octobers	77	314	290	42	71	10	1	13	37	18	62	1	.245	.303	.421	.723

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 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.