C · 2021
Jeff Mathis
- Age
- 38
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Born
- March 31, 1983 in Marianna, FL, USA
- MLB debut
- August 12, 2005
- dbWAR
- -2.0 9 season(s)
- PA
- 9
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -116 100 = avg
Jeff Mathis is a catcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 9 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 74.5 mph off the bat and made contact on 43.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -116 wRC+ puts his offence 216% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.4 runs with the bat, +0.0 on the bases, +0.2 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, 2021.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -1.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 55.6% | .000 | -2.4 | -116 | -0.2 | |
| 2020 | 23 | 68 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 24 | .161 | .221 | .355 | .194 | .194 | 7.4% | 35.3% | .246 | -4.4 | 49 | -0.1 | |
| 2019 | 75 | 244 | 36 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 15 | 87 | .158 | .209 | .224 | .066 | .243 | 6.1% | 35.7% | .192 | -27.3 | 10 | -1.3 | |
| 2018 | 67 | 218 | 39 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 20 | 66 | .200 | .272 | .272 | .072 | .292 | 9.2% | 30.3% | .247 | -12.6 | 50 | -0.1 | |
| 2017 | 60 | 203 | 40 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 14 | 61 | .215 | .277 | .323 | .108 | .309 | 6.9% | 30.0% | .265 | -10.0 | 56 | 0.1 | |
| 2016 | 40 | 132 | 30 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 36 | .238 | .267 | .333 | .095 | .318 | 3.0% | 27.3% | .263 | -6.1 | 64 | 0.1 | |
| 2015 | 31 | 103 | 15 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 7 | 24 | .161 | .214 | .290 | .129 | .186 | 6.8% | 23.3% | .218 | -8.1 | 31 | -0.3 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9.00 | 8.71 | 1.50 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 200 | 193 | -0.1 | |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9.00 | 14.16 | 1.00 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 217 | 341 | -0.1 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 33.3% |
| vs RHP | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 66.7% |
No pitching splits recorded for 2021.
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 4 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 74.5 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 94.0 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 50.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 23.5° average
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, 2021.
Situational hitting
How Jeff Mathis hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
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, 2021.
Head to head
Put Jeff Mathis beside up to three others.
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.