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Matt Shoemaker
- Age
- 35
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Number
- #52
- Born
- September 27, 1986 in Wyandotte, MI, United States
- MLB debut
- September 20, 2013
- dbWAR
- 6.0 Regular season, 13 season(s)
- IP
- 60.1
- ERA
- 8.06
- FIP
- 6.57
- K/9
- 6.0
- FIP−
- 154 100 = avg
Matt Shoemaker was a starting pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. In 2021 he struck out 40 batters over 60.1 innings across 16 appearances, 11 of them starts, going 3-8. His ERA of 8.06 was 88.8% higher than the league average of 4.27 — the worst on his team, and 557th of 567 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.57 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 22.2% of swings (11.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.1%. His -1.0 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, 2021 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | MIN | 16 | 11 | 60.1 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 73 | 54 | 40 | 27 | 8.06 | 6.57 | 1.66 | 6.0 | 4.0 | 189 | 154 | -1.0 | |
| 2020 | TOR | 6 | 6 | 28.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 15 | 26 | 9 | 4.71 | 5.95 | 1.08 | 8.2 | 2.8 | 106 | 134 | -0.1 | |
| 2019 | TOR | 5 | 5 | 28.2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 24 | 9 | 1.57 | 3.95 | 0.87 | 7.5 | 2.8 | 35 | 88 | 0.5 | |
| 2018 | LAA | 7 | 7 | 31.0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 29 | 17 | 33 | 10 | 4.94 | 3.35 | 1.26 | 9.6 | 2.9 | 119 | 81 | 0.7 | |
| 2017 | LAA | 14 | 14 | 77.2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 73 | 39 | 69 | 28 | 4.52 | 5.13 | 1.30 | 8.0 | 3.2 | 104 | 118 | 0.2 | |
| 2016 | LAA | 27 | 27 | 160.0 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 166 | 69 | 143 | 30 | 3.88 | 3.52 | 1.23 | 8.0 | 1.7 | 93 | 84 | 3.0 | |
| 2015 | LAA | 25 | 24 | 135.1 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 135 | 67 | 116 | 35 | 4.46 | 4.59 | 1.26 | 7.7 | 2.3 | 112 | 116 | 0.4 | |
| 2014 | LAA | 27 | 20 | 136.0 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 122 | 46 | 124 | 24 | 3.04 | 3.26 | 1.07 | 8.2 | 1.6 | 81 | 87 | 2.1 | |
| 2013 | LAA | 1 | 1 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0.00 | 2.25 | 0.80 | 9.0 | 3.6 | 0 | 58 | 0.2 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Post | TOR | Wild Card | 1 | 1 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 0.67 | 6.0 |
| 2014 Post | LAA | ALDS | 1 | 1 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1.50 | 0.83 | 9.0 |
| Career | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 2 | 2 | 9.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1.00 | 0.78 | 8.0 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 139 | 121 | 40 | 8 | 16 | 17 | .331 | .403 | .595 | .421 | 12.2% |
| vs RHB | 145 | 125 | 33 | 7 | 11 | 23 | .264 | .331 | .480 | .344 | 15.9% |
Pitch sequencing
What Matt Shoemaker 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.
| Splitter | 354 | 85.2 | 1,222 | 44.1% | 29.2% | 102 | .245 | .674 | |
| Slider | 261 | 82.2 | 2,076 | 39.8% | 23.6% | 63 | .238 | .793 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 260 | 91.6 | 2,228 | 51.5% | 18.6% | 36 | .361 | 1.147 | |
| Sinker | 176 | 91.7 | 2,119 | 38.6% | 8.4% | 43 | .419 | 1.179 | |
| Knuckle Curve | 13 | 77.3 | 1,947 | 61.5% | 0.0% | 2 | — | — |
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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.