PH · 2021

Matt Joyce

Philadelphia Phillies National League EastPH

Age: 37
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 194 lb
Number: #20

Born: August 3, 1984 in Tampa, FL, USA
MLB debut: May 5, 2008

dbWAR: 3.9
PA: 69
AVG: .091
OBP: .261
SLG: .218
wRC+: 35

Matt Joyce is a position player for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2021 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 7 RBIs, notching 5 hits across 69 plate appearances in 42 games. His batting average was .091, 62.7% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .261 clip and slugged .218, for an OPS of .479, 34.2% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 85.7 mph off the bat, hit 27.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.5% of them and made contact on 69.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 35 wRC+ puts his offence 65% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -5.4 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -1.3 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.

wRC+35

wOBA.224

ISO.127

BB%17.4%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -4.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	42	69	5	2	7	0	12	16	.091	.261	.218	.127	.079	17.4%	23.2%	.224	-5.4	35	-0.4
2020	46	148	32	2	14	1	20	41	.252	.351	.331	.079	.353	13.5%	27.7%	.313	-1.1	96	0.1
2019	127	238	59	7	23	0	38	45	.295	.408	.450	.155	.351	16.0%	18.9%	.376	+10.8	136	1.3
2018	80	246	43	7	15	0	35	53	.208	.322	.353	.145	.242	14.2%	21.5%	.303	-3.1	93	0.0
2017	139	544	114	25	68	4	66	113	.243	.335	.473	.230	.263	12.1%	20.8%	.347	+10.4	112	2.1
2016	136	293	56	13	42	1	59	67	.242	.403	.463	.221	.285	20.1%	22.9%	.380	+13.6	139	1.8
2015	91	284	43	5	21	0	30	67	.174	.272	.291	.117	.215	10.6%	23.6%	.259	-13.0	62	-1.0

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2021. 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	14	11	1	1	2	5	.091	.286	.364	.299	35.7%
vs RHP	55	44	4	1	10	11	.091	.255	.182	.204	20.0%

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 40 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 2.5%
Exit velocity: 85.7
Max exit velo: 105.7
Hard hit: 27.5%
Sweet spot: 25.0%
Launch angle: 14.8°

Barrel rate2.5%

Exit velocity85.7 mph

Hard hit rate27.5%

Contact rate69.7%

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.

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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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Matt Joyce 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	69	—	—	—	—	—	—	.091	.261	.218	.224
Bases empty	41	37	4	1	1	3	8	.108	.195	.216	.193
Runner on first · thin	9	7	0	0	0	2	1	.000	.222	.000	.161
Runners on	28	18	1	1	6	9	8	.056	.357	.222	.271
RISP · thin	19	11	1	1	6	7	7	.091	.421	.364	.330

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.

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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.