P · 2017

Matt Shoemaker

Los Angeles Angels American League WestP

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #52

Born: September 27, 1986 in Wyandotte, MI, USA
MLB debut: September 20, 2013

Age shown as of the 2021 season.

dbWAR: 3.1
PA: 2
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -124

Matt Shoemaker is a pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 2 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .750. He made contact on 50.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -124 wRC+ puts his offence 224% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.5 runs with the bat, +0.0 on the bases, +0.0 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, 2017.

wRC+-124

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	1	2	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-124	-0.0
2016	1	2	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-120	-0.0
2015	1	2	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.000	.000	50.0%	0.0%	.356	+0.1	133	0.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	16	11	60.1	3	8	73	54	40	27	8.06	6.57	1.66	6.0	4.0	189	154	-1.0
2020	6	6	28.2	0	1	22	15	26	9	4.71	5.95	1.08	8.2	2.8	106	134	-0.2
2019	5	5	28.2	3	0	16	5	24	9	1.57	3.95	0.87	7.5	2.8	35	88	0.4
2018	7	7	31.0	2	2	29	17	33	10	4.94	3.35	1.26	9.6	2.9	119	81	0.6
2017	14	14	77.2	6	3	73	39	69	28	4.52	5.13	1.30	8.0	3.2	104	118	0.1
2016	27	27	160.0	9	13	166	69	143	30	3.88	3.52	1.23	8.0	1.7	93	84	2.8
2015	25	24	135.1	7	10	135	67	116	35	4.46	4.59	1.26	7.7	2.3	112	116	0.4

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 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 RHP	2	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	50.0%

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	144	138	38	6	6	26	.275	.306	.486	.337	18.1%
vs RHB	182	153	35	9	22	43	.229	.339	.444	.342	23.6%

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.

Situational hitting

How Matt Shoemaker hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runner on first · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
RISP · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000

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, 2017.

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, and how often it misses in 2017.


Splitter	30.1%	381	85.1	1,262	46.2%	32.5%
Four-Seam Fastball	25.2%	319	91.7	2,251	49.5%	20.0%
Sinker	23.4%	296	91.5	2,122	44.9%	9.8%
Slider	18.9%	239	82.7	2,084	43.5%	34.3%
Knuckle Curve	2.0%	25	76.2	1,926	32.0%	33.3%

Matt Shoemaker'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.

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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.