C · 2020

Matt Wieters

St. Louis Cardinals National League CentralC

Age: 34
B/T: S/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 235 lb
Number: #32

Born: May 21, 1986 in Charleston, SC, USA
MLB debut: May 29, 2009

dbWAR: 5.7
PA: 41
AVG: .200
OBP: .300
SLG: .229
wRC+: 55

Matt Wieters is a catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2020 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 7 hits across 41 plate appearances in 17 games. His batting average was .200, 18.2% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .300 clip and slugged .229, for an OPS of .529, 28.5% lower than the league mark of .740. He averaged 83.0 mph off the bat, hit 23.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 81.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 55 wRC+ puts his offence 45% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -2.3 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +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, 2020.

wRC+55

wOBA.255

ISO.029

BB%7.3%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2020. These four terms sum to -0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2020	17	41	7	0	4	0	3	10	.200	.300	.229	.029	.280	7.3%	24.4%	.255	-2.3	55	-0.0
2019	64	183	36	11	27	1	12	47	.214	.268	.435	.220	.223	6.6%	25.7%	.295	-4.4	83	0.4
2018	76	271	56	8	30	0	30	45	.238	.330	.374	.136	.261	11.1%	16.6%	.311	-1.7	91	1.2
2017	122	465	95	10	52	1	38	94	.225	.288	.344	.118	.264	8.2%	20.2%	.276	-18.9	65	0.6
2016	124	464	103	17	66	1	32	85	.243	.302	.409	.165	.265	6.9%	18.3%	.310	-4.2	94	2.0
2015	75	282	69	8	25	0	21	67	.267	.319	.422	.155	.328	7.4%	23.8%	.325	+1.8	101	1.5

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2020. 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	7	7	1	0	0	1	.143	.143	.143	.126	14.3%
vs RHP	34	28	6	0	3	9	.214	.333	.250	.283	26.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2020.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 26 tracked batted balls in 2020. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 83.0
Max exit velo: 105.5
Hard hit: 23.1%
Sweet spot: 38.5%
Launch angle: 10.3°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity83.0 mph

Hard hit rate23.1%

Contact rate81.2%

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, 2020.

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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 .244.

Situational hitting

How Matt Wieters 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	41	—	—	—	—	—	—	.200	.300	.229	.255
Bases empty · thin	15	14	4	0	0	1	5	.286	.333	.357	.308
Runner on first · thin	9	6	1	0	0	0	2	.167	.375	.167	.299
Runners on	26	21	3	0	4	2	5	.143	.280	.143	.224
RISP · thin	17	15	2	0	4	2	3	.133	.235	.133	.189

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, 2020.

Head to head

Put Matt Wieters beside up to three others.

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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.