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Matt White

Age
28
B/T
R/L
Height
5' 11"
Weight
200 lb
Born
August 19, 1977 in Pittsfield, MA, United States
MLB debut
May 27, 2003

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dbWAR
.0
Regular season, 2005 only
IP
4.0
ERA
9.00
FIP
4.52
K/9
6.8
FIP−
105
100 = avg

Matt White was a starting pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2005 he struck out 3 batters over 4.0 innings across 1 appearance, 1 of them starts, going 0-1. His ERA of 9.00 was 109.7% higher than the league average of 4.29. Stripping out defence, his 4.52 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 17.2% of swings (7.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 15.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.0%. 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, 2005 regular season.

FIP4.52
K/96.8
WHIP1.75
WAR.0

Pitching Regular season

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

Trend
2005WSH114.001044339.004.521.756.86.82101050.0—

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2005WSH11000000.000.000.000.000.0000.0%0.0%.000-0.3-131-0.0—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2005. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB760003.000.143.000.10442.9%
vs RHB1394030.444.538.556.4690.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2005.

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Not in the 2005 data: pitch types, recorded in every park from 2008. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.

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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.