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Daisuke Matsuzaka

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #18

Born: September 13, 1980 in Tokyo, Japan
MLB debut: April 5, 2007

dbWAR: 7.9
IP: 83.1
ERA: 3.89
FIP: 4.21
K/9: 8.4
FIP−: 113

Daisuke Matsuzaka was a relief pitcher for the New York Mets. In 2014 he struck out 78 batters over 83.1 innings across 34 appearances, going 3-3. His ERA of 3.89 was 3.9% higher than the league average of 3.74 — 11th of 17 on his team, and 273rd of 477 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.21 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 21.9% of swings (9.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 13.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.7%. His 0.0 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, 2014 regular season.

FIP4.21

K/98.4

WHIP1.34

WAR.0

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2014	NYM	34	9	83.1	3	3	1	62	36	78	50	3.89	4.21	1.34	8.4	5.4	104	113	0.0
2013	NYM	7	7	38.2	3	3	0	32	19	33	16	4.42	4.32	1.24	7.7	3.7	114	112	0.2
2012	BOS	11	11	45.2	1	7	0	58	42	41	20	8.28	5.94	1.71	8.1	3.9	206	148	-0.5
2011	BOS	8	7	37.1	3	3	0	32	22	26	23	5.30	4.95	1.47	6.3	5.5	135	126	-0.0
2010	BOS	25	25	153.2	9	6	0	137	80	133	74	4.69	4.05	1.37	7.8	4.3	115	99	1.9
2009	BOS	12	12	59.1	4	6	0	81	38	54	30	5.76	5.09	1.87	8.2	4.6	133	118	0.2
2008	BOS	29	29	167.2	18	3	0	128	54	154	94	2.90	4.03	1.32	8.3	5.0	67	93	2.6
2007	BOS	32	32	204.2	15	12	0	191	100	201	80	4.40	4.23	1.32	8.8	3.5	98	94	3.2

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2014	NYM	9	17	2	1	1	6	.182	.250	.182	.000	.400	5.9%	35.3%	.208	-1.4	27	0.1
2013	NYM	6	13	3	1	0	5	.250	.250	.250	.000	.429	0.0%	38.5%	.223	-0.9	35	0.1
2012	BOS	1	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-112	-0.0
2010	BOS	2	5	2	1	0	0	.500	.500	.500	.000	.500	0.0%	0.0%	.449	+0.5	181	0.1
2009	BOS	1	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-123	-0.0
2008	BOS	1	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-125	-0.0
2007	BOS	2	4	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.1	-121	-0.1

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

Postseason Daisuke Matsuzaka's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2008 Post	BOS	Postseason total	3	3	16.0	1	0	17	8	3	9	16	4.50	1.63	9.0
		ALDS	1	1	5.0	0	0	8	3	0	3	5	5.40	2.20	9.0
		ALCS	2	2	11.0	1	0	9	5	3	6	11	4.09	1.36	9.0
2007 Post	BOS	Postseason total	4	4	19.2	2	1	22	11	1	8	17	5.03	1.53	7.8
		ALDS	1	1	4.2	0	0	7	3	0	3	3	5.79	2.14	5.8
		ALCS	2	2	9.2	1	1	12	6	1	2	9	5.59	1.45	8.4
		World Series	1	1	5.1	1	0	3	2	0	3	5	3.38	1.13	8.4
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	7	7	35.2	3	1	39	19	4	17	33	4.79	1.57	8.3

Postseason batting

Postseason Daisuke Matsuzaka's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2007 Post	BOS	World Series	1	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	.333	.333	.333	.667

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.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2014. 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	142	116	24	4	23	32	.207	.340	.431	.341	22.5%
vs RHB	217	182	38	2	27	46	.209	.326	.313	.296	21.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2014.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2014.

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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 .251.

Pitch sequencing

What Daisuke Matsuzaka 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	29.6%	428	90.3	1,923	50.5%	20.8%	72	.167	.666
Sinker	19.5%	282	89.8	1,919	37.6%	11.6%	62	.242	.679
Cutter	16.7%	241	88.9	1,235	51.0%	23.9%	56	.161	.538
Slider	16.5%	239	80.7	1,284	43.5%	28.4%	72	.222	.731
Curveball	12.4%	179	74.4	1,715	40.8%	22.2%	28	.286	.875
Splitter	4.1%	59	79.7	1,745	35.6%	43.5%	8	—	—
Intentional Ball	1.0%	15	73.7	1,492	0.0%	—	0	—	—

Daisuke Matsuzaka'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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Similar players

Nearest 2014 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Daniel WebbCWS

ERA: 3.99
FIP: 4.52
SO: 58
WAR: -0.2

Alex TorresSD

ERA: 3.33
FIP: 3.72
SO: 51
WAR: 0.3

Justin WilsonPIT

ERA: 4.20
FIP: 3.62
SO: 61
WAR: 0.4

Grant BalfourTB

ERA: 4.91
FIP: 3.95
SO: 57
WAR: 0.2

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.