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Mat Latos

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 245 lb
Number: #55

Born: December 9, 1987 in Alexandria, VA, United States
MLB debut: July 19, 2009

dbWAR: 1.3
IP: 15.0
ERA: 6.60
FIP: 7.96
K/9: 6.0
FIP−: 183

Mat Latos was a starting pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2017 he struck out 10 batters over 15.0 innings across 3 appearances, 3 of them starts, going 0-1. His ERA of 6.60 was 51.4% higher than the league average of 4.36. Stripping out defence, his 7.96 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 25.8% of swings (11.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.3%. His -0.4 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.

FIP7.96

K/96.0

WHIP1.80

WAR-.4

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	TOR	3	3	15.0	0	1	19	11	10	8	6.60	7.96	1.80	6.0	4.8	151	183	-0.4
2016	CWS/WSH	17	12	70.0	7	3	74	38	42	30	4.89	5.32	1.49	5.4	3.9	117	127	-0.2
2015	MIA/LAD/LAA	24	21	116.1	4	10	120	64	100	32	4.95	3.72	1.31	7.7	2.5	125	94	1.6

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	TOR	1	3	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.8	-124	-0.0
2016	WSH/CWS	2	5	1	1	1	3	.200	.200	.800	.600	.000	0.0%	60.0%	.415	+0.4	167	0.1
2015	MIA/LAD	19	34	7	0	1	7	.292	.292	.292	.000	.412	0.0%	20.6%	.257	-1.6	59	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	23	20	7	3	3	3	.350	.435	.900	.531	13.0%
vs RHB	47	41	12	2	5	7	.293	.383	.537	.396	14.9%

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 Mat Latos 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	41.2%	108	91.6	1,994	40.7%	19.6%	29	.345	1.096
Slider	29.4%	77	86.3	1,931	40.3%	37.8%	18	.222	.864
Sinker	17.6%	46	90.6	1,948	32.6%	5.6%	9	—	—
Changeup	8.0%	21	81.3	1,696	47.6%	41.7%	4	—	—

Mat Latos'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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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.