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Matt Garza

Milwaukee Brewers National League Central

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

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

dbWAR: 1.1
IP: 114.2
ERA: 4.94
FIP: 4.91
K/9: 6.2
FIP−: 113

Matt Garza was a starting pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2017 he struck out 79 batters over 114.2 innings across 24 appearances, 22 of them starts, going 6-9. His ERA of 4.94 was 13.5% higher than the league average of 4.36 — 13th of 17 on his team, and 372nd of 527 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.91 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 18.3% of swings (8.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.7%. His 0.7 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, 2017.

FIP4.91

K/96.2

WHIP1.45

WAR.7

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	MIL	24	22	114.2	6	9	121	63	79	45	4.94	4.91	1.45	6.2	3.5	113	113	0.7
2016	MIL	19	19	101.2	6	8	117	51	70	36	4.51	4.33	1.50	6.2	3.2	108	103	1.0
2015	MIL	26	25	148.2	6	14	176	93	104	57	5.63	4.94	1.57	6.3	3.5	142	125	0.1

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	MIL	21	37	3	1	0	13	.086	.111	.086	.000	.136	0.0%	35.1%	.093	-7.1	-57	-0.2
2016	MIL	17	33	1	0	2	17	.036	.100	.036	.000	.091	6.1%	51.5%	.076	-6.5	-67	-0.2
2015	MIL	25	47	3	0	1	21	.077	.100	.077	.000	.167	2.1%	44.7%	.084	-8.7	-62	-0.3

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

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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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.

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, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	43.6%	832	92.0	2,002	42.7%	9.0%	204	.319	.936
Slider	23.2%	443	82.4	2,031	49.4%	39.2%	113	.204	.654
Sinker	17.0%	325	91.5	1,969	44.0%	14.5%	70	.243	.622
Curveball	10.5%	200	73.9	2,254	34.5%	18.5%	39	.231	.696
Changeup	5.8%	110	84.1	1,412	35.5%	15.2%	23	.304	.795

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. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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Nearest 2017 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Miguel GonzálezCWS

ERA: 4.62
FIP: 4.88
SO: 100
WAR: 0.9

Very close

Kyle GibsonMIN

ERA: 5.07
FIP: 4.85
SO: 121
WAR: 1.1

Very close

Robert GsellmanNYM

ERA: 5.19
FIP: 4.89
SO: 82
WAR: 0.5

Very close

R.A. DickeyATL

ERA: 4.26
FIP: 4.72
SO: 136
WAR: 1.5

Very close

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.