P · 2017

Matt Garza

Milwaukee Brewers National League CentralP

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #22

Born: November 26, 1983 in Selma, CA, USA
MLB debut: August 11, 2006

dbWAR: -.8
PA: 37
AVG: .086
OBP: .111
SLG: .086
wRC+: -57

Matt Garza is a pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 3 hits across 37 plate appearances in 21 games. His batting average was .086, 66.4% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .111 clip and slugged .086, for an OPS of .197, 73.8% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 73.7 mph off the bat, hit 12.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 71.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -57 wRC+ puts his offence 157% below average. That comes to -0.6 dbWAR — -7.1 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, 2017.

wRC+-57

wOBA.093

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -5.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

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WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	21	37	3	1	0	13	.086	.111	.086	.000	.136	0.0%	35.1%	.093	-7.1	-57	-0.6
2016	17	33	1	0	2	17	.036	.100	.036	.000	.091	6.1%	51.5%	.076	-6.5	-67	-0.5
2015	25	47	3	0	1	21	.077	.100	.077	.000	.167	2.1%	44.7%	.084	-8.7	-62	-0.8

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	24	22	114.2	6	9	121	63	79	45	4.94	4.91	1.45	6.2	3.5	113	113	0.4
2016	19	19	101.2	6	8	117	51	70	36	4.51	4.33	1.50	6.2	3.2	108	103	0.9
2015	26	25	148.2	6	14	176	93	104	57	5.63	4.94	1.57	6.3	3.5	142	125	-0.2

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 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 LHP	7	7	1	0	0	4	.143	.143	.143	.125	57.1%
vs RHP	30	28	2	0	0	9	.071	.103	.071	.085	30.0%

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	246	215	58	10	29	29	.270	.357	.474	.356	11.8%
vs RHB	258	233	63	7	16	50	.270	.316	.442	.324	19.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 16 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 73.7
Max exit velo: 98.2
Hard hit: 12.5%
Sweet spot: 12.5%
Launch angle: -13.3°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity73.7 mph

Hard hit rate12.5%

Contact rate71.2%

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, 2017.

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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 .254.

Situational hitting

How Matt Garza 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	37	—	—	—	—	—	—	.086	.111	.086	.093
Bases empty · thin	24	23	1	0	0	0	7	.043	.083	.043	.067
Runner on first · thin	5	5	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	13	12	2	0	1	0	6	.167	.167	.167	.146
RISP · thin	8	7	2	0	1	0	3	.286	.286	.286	.250

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, 2017.

Pitch sequencing

What Matt Garza 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 2017.


Four-Seam Fastball	43.6%	832	92.0	2,002	42.7%	9.0%
Slider	23.2%	443	82.4	2,031	49.4%	39.2%
Sinker	17.0%	325	91.5	1,969	44.0%	14.5%
Curveball	10.5%	200	73.9	2,254	34.5%	18.5%
Changeup	5.8%	110	84.1	1,412	35.5%	15.2%

Matt Garza'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.

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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.