1B · 2015
Matt Hague
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Number
- #65
- Born
- August 20, 1985 in Bellevue, WA, USA
- MLB debut
- April 7, 2012
- dbWAR
- .0 1 season(s)
- PA
- 15
- AVG
- .250
- OBP
- .400
- SLG
- .333
- wRC+
- 105 100 = avg
Matt Hague is a first baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2015 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 3 hits across 15 plate appearances in 9 games. His batting average was .250, 1.7% lower than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .400 clip and slugged .333, for an OPS of .733, 1.7% higher than the league mark of .721. He averaged 99.1 mph off the bat, hit 66.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 16.7% of them and made contact on 88.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 105 wRC+ puts his offence 5% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.0 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.3 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, 2015.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2015. These four terms sum to +0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | .250 | .400 | .333 | .083 | .375 | 13.3% | 26.7% | .320 | +0.0 | 105 | 0.0 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .400 | .571 | .600 | .478 | 14.3% |
| vs RHP | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .143 | .250 | .143 | .202 | 37.5% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 6 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 16.7% 1 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 99.1 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 110.0 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 66.7% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 50.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 22.2° average
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, 2015.
Situational hitting
How Matt Hague hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .250 | .400 | .333 | .320 |
| Bases empty · thin | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .333 | .429 | .500 | .413 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .167 | .375 | .167 | .228 |
| RISP · thin | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .200 | .429 | .200 | .266 |
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, 2015.
Head to head
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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.