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Matt Thornton
- Age
- 40
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 6"
- Weight
- 235 lb
- Number
- #37
- Born
- September 15, 1976 in Three Rivers, MI, United States
- MLB debut
- June 27, 2004
- dbWAR
- 9.8 Regular season, 2005–2016 only
- IP
- 17.0
- ERA
- 5.82
- FIP
- 4.85
- K/9
- 4.8
- FIP−
- 116 100 = avg
Matt Thornton was a relief pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2016 he struck out 9 batters over 17.0 innings across 18 appearances, going 1-0. His ERA of 5.82 was 39.0% higher than the league average of 4.19. Stripping out defence, his 4.85 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 15.1% of swings (7.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 11.7%. His -0.0 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, 2016 regular season.
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 2005–2016; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | SD | 18 | 0 | 17.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 5.82 | 4.85 | 1.65 | 4.8 | 3.2 | 139 | 116 | -0.0 | |
| 2015 | WSH | 60 | 0 | 41.1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 10 | 23 | 11 | 2.18 | 3.52 | 1.06 | 5.0 | 2.4 | 55 | 89 | 0.5 | |
| 2014 | NYY/WSH | 64 | 0 | 36.0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 33 | 7 | 28 | 8 | 1.75 | 2.66 | 1.14 | 7.0 | 2.0 | 47 | 71 | 0.7 | |
| 2013 | CWS/BOS | 60 | 0 | 43.1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 47 | 18 | 30 | 15 | 3.74 | 4.04 | 1.43 | 6.2 | 3.1 | 97 | 105 | 0.2 | |
| 2012 | CWS | 74 | 0 | 65.0 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 63 | 25 | 53 | 17 | 3.46 | 3.19 | 1.23 | 7.3 | 2.4 | 86 | 79 | 1.1 | |
| 2011 | CWS | 62 | 0 | 59.2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 60 | 22 | 63 | 21 | 3.32 | 2.62 | 1.36 | 9.5 | 3.2 | 84 | 67 | 1.3 | |
| 2010 | CWS | 61 | 0 | 60.2 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 41 | 18 | 81 | 20 | 2.67 | 2.14 | 1.01 | 12.0 | 3.0 | 65 | 52 | 1.8 | |
| 2009 | CWS | 70 | 0 | 72.1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 58 | 22 | 87 | 20 | 2.74 | 2.46 | 1.08 | 10.8 | 2.5 | 63 | 57 | 2.0 | |
| 2008 | CWS | 74 | 0 | 67.1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 48 | 20 | 77 | 19 | 2.67 | 2.75 | 1.00 | 10.3 | 2.5 | 62 | 64 | 1.7 | |
| 2007 | CWS | 68 | 0 | 56.1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 59 | 30 | 55 | 26 | 4.79 | 3.70 | 1.51 | 8.8 | 4.2 | 107 | 83 | 0.8 | |
| 2006 | CWS | 63 | 0 | 54.0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 46 | 20 | 49 | 21 | 3.33 | 3.76 | 1.24 | 8.2 | 3.5 | 74 | 83 | 0.8 | |
| 2005 | SEA | 55 | 0 | 57.0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 54 | 33 | 57 | 42 | 5.21 | 6.20 | 1.68 | 9.0 | 6.6 | 121 | 144 | -0.9 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2016; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | CWS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -124 | -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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 Post | WSH | NLDS | 3 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3.86 | 2.14 | 3.9 |
| 2008 Post | CWS | ALDS | 3 | 0 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.00 | 1.20 | 5.4 |
| 2005–2016 | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 6 | 0 | 5.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1.59 | 1.59 | 4.8 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 23 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 5 | .300 | .391 | .500 | .389 | 21.7% |
| vs RHB | 54 | 50 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 4 | .320 | .370 | .460 | .363 | 7.4% |
Pitch sequencing
What Matt Thornton 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.
| Sinker | 178 | 91.4 | 2,541 | 43.8% | 14.1% | 39 | .359 | .906 | |
| Cutter | 64 | 86.1 | 1,809 | 39.1% | 15.8% | 21 | .190 | .465 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 21 | 91.5 | 2,232 | 42.9% | 22.2% | 4 | — | — | |
| Slider | 17 | 83.5 | 794 | 23.5% | 14.3% | 6 | — | — |
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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.