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Jason Motte

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #30

Born: June 22, 1982 in Port Huron, MI, United States
MLB debut: September 3, 2008

dbWAR: 3.2
IP: 40.2
ERA: 3.54
FIP: 5.44
K/9: 6.0
FIP−: 125

Jason Motte was a relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2017 he struck out 27 batters over 40.2 innings across 46 appearances, going 1-0. His ERA of 3.54 was 18.8% lower than the league average of 4.36 — 4th of 17 on his team, and 152nd of 527 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.44 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 18.9% of swings (8.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 12.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.3%. His -0.3 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, 2017 regular season.

FIP5.44

K/96.0

WHIP1.18

WAR-.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2017	ATL	46	40.2	1	0	0	28	16	27	20	3.54	5.44	1.18	6.0	4.4	81	125	-0.3
2016	COL	30	23.2	0	1	0	28	13	24	8	4.94	5.68	1.52	9.1	3.0	118	136	-0.2
2015	CHC	57	48.1	8	1	6	48	21	34	11	3.91	3.61	1.22	6.3	2.0	99	91	0.5
2014	STL	29	25.0	1	0	0	29	13	17	9	4.68	6.49	1.52	6.1	3.2	125	174	-0.7
2012	STL	67	72.0	4	5	42	49	22	86	17	2.75	3.12	0.92	10.8	2.1	68	78	1.2
2011	STL	78	68.0	5	2	9	49	17	63	16	2.25	2.48	0.96	8.3	2.1	57	63	1.5
2010	STL	56	52.1	4	2	2	41	13	54	18	2.24	3.29	1.13	9.3	3.1	55	81	0.8
2009	STL	69	56.2	4	4	0	57	30	54	23	4.76	4.81	1.41	8.6	3.7	110	111	-0.0
2008	STL	12	11.0	0	0	1	5	1	16	3	0.82	1.04	0.73	13.1	2.5	19	24	0.5

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2011	STL	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.2	-124	-0.0
2010	STL	2	2	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-127	-0.0
2009	STL	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-129	-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

Postseason Jason Motte's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	W	L	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2012 Post	STL	Postseason total	6	8.1	1	0	3	7	2	1	1	2	2.16	0.96	2.2
		Wild Card	1	1.1	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	1	0.00	2.25	6.8
		NLDS	2	3.0	1	0	0	3	1	0	0	1	3.00	1.00	3.0
		NLCS	3	4.0	0	0	2	2	1	1	0	0	2.25	0.50	0.0
2011 Post	STL	Postseason total	12	12.1	0	1	5	5	3	1	1	8	2.19	0.49	5.8
		NLDS	3	3.1	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	3	0.00	0.30	8.1
		NLCS	4	4.2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	4	0.00	0.00	7.7
		World Series	5	4.1	0	1	1	4	3	1	1	1	6.23	1.15	2.1
2009 Post	STL	NLDS	1	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.0
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	19	21.2	1	1	8	12	5	2	2	10	2.08	0.65	4.2

Postseason batting

Postseason Jason Motte'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
2012 Post	STL	NLDS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

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.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2017. 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 LHB	59	48	9	2	8	5	.188	.322	.333	.292	8.5%
vs RHB	107	93	19	4	12	22	.204	.299	.409	.309	20.6%

Pitch sequencing

What Jason Motte 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.

Season


Cutter	52.3%	341	87.3	2,094	41.6%	21.1%	78	.179	.573
Sinker	26.4%	172	93.1	2,281	44.8%	15.9%	38	.184	.788
Four-Seam Fastball	19.3%	126	93.7	2,294	51.6%	19.4%	23	.261	.835
Changeup	1.5%	10	88.7	2,255	40.0%	0.0%	2	—	—

Jason Motte's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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Similar players

Nearest 2017 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Miguel CastroBAL

ERA: 3.53
FIP: 4.94
SO: 38
WAR: -0.0

Dan JenningsCWS

ERA: 3.45
FIP: 4.72
SO: 51
WAR: 0.1

José RamírezATL

ERA: 3.19
FIP: 4.88
SO: 56
WAR: -0.0

Tom WilhelmsenAZ

ERA: 4.44
FIP: 5.32
SO: 17
WAR: -0.1

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.