P · 2016
Matt Albers
- Age
- 36
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Number
- #32
- Born
- January 20, 1983 in Houston, TX, USA
- MLB debut
- July 25, 2006
Age shown as of the 2019 season.
- dbWAR
- .3 6 season(s)
- PA
- 1
- AVG
- 1.000
- OBP
- 1.000
- SLG
- 2.000
- wRC+
- 753 100 = avg
Matt Albers is a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was 1.000, 291.6% higher than the league average of .255. He reached base at a 1.000 clip and slugged 2.000, for an OPS of 3.000, 306.0% higher than the league mark of .739. He averaged 95.7 mph off the bat, hit 100.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 753 wRC+ puts his offence 653% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.8 runs with the bat, +0.0 on the bases, +0.0 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, 2016.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to +0.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.265 | +0.8 | 753 | 0.1 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 67 | 0 | 59.2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 53 | 34 | 57 | 29 | 5.13 | 4.66 | 1.37 | 8.6 | 4.4 | 114 | 103 | 0.2 | |
| 2018 | 34 | 0 | 34.1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 45 | 28 | 32 | 12 | 7.34 | 6.31 | 1.66 | 8.4 | 3.1 | 177 | 152 | -0.7 | |
| 2017 | 63 | 0 | 61.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 35 | 11 | 63 | 17 | 1.62 | 3.40 | 0.85 | 9.3 | 2.5 | 37 | 78 | 0.9 | |
| 2016 | 58 | 1 | 51.1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 67 | 36 | 30 | 19 | 6.31 | 5.80 | 1.68 | 5.3 | 3.3 | 151 | 138 | -0.7 | |
| 2015 | 30 | 0 | 37.1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 5 | 28 | 9 | 1.21 | 3.48 | 1.07 | 6.8 | 2.2 | 30 | 88 | 0.4 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1.265 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 77 | 65 | 20 | 4 | 8 | 8 | .308 | .395 | .585 | .413 | 10.4% |
| vs RHB | 160 | 144 | 47 | 6 | 11 | 22 | .326 | .376 | .549 | .396 | 13.8% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 95.7 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 95.7 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 100.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 100.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 20.0° 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, 2016.
Situational hitting
How Matt Albers 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 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1.265 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1.265 |
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, 2016.
Pitch sequencing
What Matt Albers 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, and how often it misses in 2016.
| Sinker | 622 | 92.0 | 2,067 | 45.2% | 14.4% | |
| Changeup | 105 | 83.7 | 1,163 | 36.2% | 35.9% | |
| Slider | 93 | 86.3 | 721 | 33.3% | 28.6% | |
| Unknown | 35 | 87.7 | 1,840 | 31.4% | 7.7% | |
| Curveball | 18 | 79.9 | 881 | 22.2% | 14.3% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 14 | 92.3 | 1,971 | 42.9% | 12.5% |
Head to head
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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.