Players · H · Pitcher · 2015 regular season
Matt Harrison
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 240 lb
- Born
- September 16, 1985 in Durham, NC, United States
- MLB debut
- July 8, 2008
- dbWAR
- 5.8 Regular season, 13 season(s)
- IP
- 16.0
- ERA
- 6.75
- FIP
- 6.07
- K/9
- 2.8
- FIP−
- 153 100 = avg
Matt Harrison was a starting pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2015 he struck out 5 batters over 16.0 innings across 3 appearances, 3 of them starts, going 1-2. His ERA of 6.75 was 70.4% higher than the league average of 3.96. Stripping out defence, his 6.07 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 8.9% of swings (3.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 7.2%. His -0.2 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, 2015 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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| 2015 | TEX | 3 | 3 | 16.0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 6.75 | 6.07 | 1.56 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 170 | 153 | -0.2 | |
| 2014 | TEX | 4 | 4 | 17.1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 4.15 | 4.98 | 1.85 | 5.2 | 6.2 | 111 | 133 | -0.1 | |
| 2013 | TEX | 2 | 2 | 10.2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 8.44 | 5.20 | 1.97 | 10.1 | 5.9 | 218 | 135 | -0.1 | |
| 2012 | TEX | 32 | 32 | 213.1 | 18 | 11 | 0 | 210 | 78 | 133 | 59 | 3.29 | 4.03 | 1.26 | 5.6 | 2.5 | 82 | 100 | 2.7 | |
| 2011 | TEX | 31 | 30 | 185.2 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 180 | 70 | 126 | 57 | 3.39 | 3.52 | 1.28 | 6.1 | 2.8 | 86 | 89 | 3.6 | |
| 2010 | TEX | 37 | 6 | 78.1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 80 | 41 | 46 | 39 | 4.71 | 5.13 | 1.52 | 5.3 | 4.5 | 115 | 126 | -0.4 | |
| 2009 | TEX | 11 | 11 | 63.1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 81 | 43 | 34 | 23 | 6.11 | 5.05 | 1.64 | 4.8 | 3.3 | 141 | 117 | 0.3 | |
| 2008 | TEX | 15 | 15 | 83.2 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 100 | 51 | 42 | 31 | 5.49 | 5.18 | 1.57 | 4.5 | 3.3 | 127 | 120 | 0.3 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 Post | TEX | Postseason total | 5 | 4 | 18.1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 5.40 | 1.58 | 7.9 |
| ALDS | 2 | 1 | 5.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 4.76 | 1.59 | 14.3 | ||
| ALCS | 1 | 1 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3.60 | 1.20 | 5.4 | ||
| World Series | 2 | 2 | 7.2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7.04 | 1.83 | 4.7 |
Postseason batting
| Season | Team | Round | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 Post | TEX | World Series | 1 | 2 | 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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 16 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | .357 | .438 | .571 | .440 | 6.3% |
| vs RHB | 53 | 48 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 4 | .292 | .340 | .500 | .361 | 7.5% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.
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Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2015.
Pitch sequencing
What Matt Harrison 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 | 184 | 86.4 | 2,225 | 42.9% | 4.2% | 46 | .304 | .844 | |
| Changeup | 48 | 76.4 | 1,739 | 25.0% | 33.3% | 10 | — | — | |
| Cutter | 21 | 82.0 | 796 | 28.6% | 0.0% | 3 | — | — | |
| Curveball | 17 | 73.7 | 665 | 17.6% | 0.0% | 3 | — | — |
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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.