P · 2019

Mike Montgomery

Age: 31
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 220 lb

Born: July 1, 1989 in Mission Hills, CA, USA
MLB debut: June 2, 2015

Age shown as of the 2020 season.

dbWAR: 2.4
PA: 6
AVG: .167
OBP: .167
SLG: .167
wRC+: -21

Mike Montgomery is a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 6 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .167, 33.9% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .167 clip and slugged .167, for an OPS of .333, 56.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 86.3 mph off the bat and made contact on 66.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -21 wRC+ puts his offence 121% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -0.9 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, 2019.

wRC+-21

wOBA.145

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	5	6	1	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.000	.333	0.0%	50.0%	.145	-0.9	-21	-0.1
2018	18	35	3	0	1	1	20	.091	.118	.091	.000	.231	2.9%	57.1%	.098	-6.2	-51	-0.5
2017	19	30	5	1	3	0	10	.185	.185	.333	.148	.250	0.0%	33.3%	.218	-2.7	26	-0.2
2016	7	11	1	0	1	0	5	.091	.091	.091	.000	.167	0.0%	45.5%	.080	-2.1	-66	-0.2
2015	1	3	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	66.7%	.000	-0.8	-127	-0.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2020	3	1	5.1	0	0	0	6	3	4	1	5.06	4.69	1.31	6.8	1.7	114	105	0.0
2019	33	13	91.0	3	9	0	113	50	69	34	4.95	5.52	1.62	6.8	3.4	110	123	-0.4
2018	38	19	124.0	5	6	0	131	55	86	39	3.99	3.93	1.37	6.2	2.8	96	95	1.2
2017	44	14	130.2	7	8	3	103	49	100	55	3.38	4.07	1.21	6.9	3.8	77	93	1.2
2016	49	7	100.0	4	5	0	79	28	92	38	2.52	3.79	1.17	8.3	3.4	60	90	1.0
2015	16	16	90.0	4	6	0	92	46	64	37	4.60	4.67	1.43	6.4	3.7	116	118	0.2

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2019. 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 LHP	2	2	1	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.436	50.0%
vs RHP	4	4	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	50.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2019. 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	91	84	38	4	4	13	.452	.484	.702	.493	14.3%
vs RHB	311	275	75	14	30	56	.273	.349	.484	.353	18.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 2 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 86.3
Max exit velo: 87.8
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 100.0%
Launch angle: 19.5°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity86.3 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate66.7%

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, 2019.

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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 .252.

Situational hitting

How Mike Montgomery 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	6	—	—	—	—	—	—	.167	.167	.167	.145
Bases empty · thin	5	5	1	0	0	0	3	.200	.200	.200	.174
Runner on first · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.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, 2019.

Pitch sequencing

What Mike Montgomery 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 2019.


Sinker	26.7%	422	92.3	1,887	41.9%	12.1%
Curveball	21.2%	334	77.7	2,280	46.1%	34.4%
Changeup	21.2%	334	84.3	1,786	37.7%	27.0%
Cutter	17.0%	268	87.7	2,050	45.5%	24.4%
Four-Seam Fastball	13.7%	217	91.6	1,978	45.2%	13.4%

Mike Montgomery'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.