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Matt Harvey

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #33

Born: March 27, 1989 in New London, CT, United States
MLB debut: July 26, 2012

dbWAR: 5.5
IP: 127.2
ERA: 6.27
FIP: 4.60
K/9: 6.7
FIP−: 108

Matt Harvey was a starting pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2021 he struck out 95 batters over 127.2 innings across 28 appearances, 28 of them starts, going 6-14. His ERA of 6.27 was 47.1% higher than the league average of 4.27 — 13th of 23 on his team, and 500th of 567 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.60 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 19.1% of swings (9.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.3%. His 1.2 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, 2021.

FIP4.60

K/96.7

WHIP1.54

WAR1.2

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	BAL	28	28	127.2	6	14	160	89	95	37	6.27	4.60	1.54	6.7	2.6	147	108	1.2
2020	KC	7	4	11.2	0	3	27	15	10	5	11.57	9.45	2.74	7.7	3.9	260	212	-0.5
2019	LAA	12	12	59.2	3	5	63	47	39	29	7.09	6.35	1.54	5.9	4.4	157	141	-0.5
2018	CIN/NYM	32	28	155.0	7	9	165	85	131	37	4.94	4.57	1.30	7.6	2.1	119	110	1.1
2017	NYM	19	18	92.2	5	7	110	69	67	47	6.70	6.37	1.69	6.5	4.6	154	146	-1.1
2016	NYM	17	17	92.2	4	10	111	50	76	25	4.86	3.47	1.47	7.4	2.4	116	83	1.9
2015	NYM	29	29	189.1	13	8	156	57	188	37	2.71	3.05	1.02	8.9	1.8	68	77	4.1

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	BAL	3	6	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.6	-115	-0.1
2018	CIN/NYM	29	57	4	0	1	2	19	.075	.109	.075	.000	.118	3.5%	33.3%	.090	-10.5	-56	-0.2
2017	NYM	18	36	2	0	1	1	13	.059	.086	.059	.000	.095	2.8%	36.1%	.070	-7.6	-77	-0.2
2016	NYM	15	25	3	0	0	0	8	.136	.136	.182	.045	.214	0.0%	32.0%	.137	-3.7	-25	-0.0
2015	NYM	28	66	7	1	7	0	31	.108	.108	.185	.077	.182	0.0%	47.0%	.126	-10.0	-36	-0.2

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2021. 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	264	242	63	9	16	48	.260	.316	.450	.330	18.2%
vs RHB	319	295	97	10	21	47	.329	.374	.505	.377	14.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2021.

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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 .243.

Pitch sequencing

What Matt Harvey 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	34.1%	760	93.4	2,157	46.7%	15.3%	185	.319	.936
Sinker	20.8%	464	92.9	2,133	47.2%	12.8%	111	.333	.856
Slider	19.3%	431	86.9	2,370	43.4%	28.0%	111	.288	.767
Curveball	14.0%	312	79.9	2,488	41.7%	32.5%	56	.304	.934
Changeup	11.9%	265	85.3	1,697	35.8%	12.9%	74	.203	.518

Matt Harvey'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 2021 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Matt ManningDET

ERA: 5.80
FIP: 4.62
SO: 57
WAR: 0.6

Very close

J.A. HappMIN

ERA: 5.79
FIP: 5.13
SO: 122
WAR: 0.4

Dallas KeuchelCWS

ERA: 5.28
FIP: 5.23
SO: 95
WAR: 0.2

Chi Chi GonzálezCOL

ERA: 6.46
FIP: 5.37
SO: 56
WAR: 0.0

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.