CF · 2018
Matthew den Dekker
- Age
- 31
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Number
- #6
- Born
- August 10, 1987 in Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
- MLB debut
- August 29, 2013
- dbWAR
- -.0 4 season(s)
- PA
- 21
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .095
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -80 100 = avg
Matthew den Dekker is a center fielder for the New York Mets. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 0 hits across 21 plate appearances in 8 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .095 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .095, 86.9% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 86.6 mph off the bat, hit 22.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 53.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -80 wRC+ puts his offence 180% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -4.3 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.1 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, 2018.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -3.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 8 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | .000 | .095 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 9.5% | 42.9% | .067 | -4.3 | -80 | -0.4 | |
| 2017 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .143 | .250 | .143 | .000 | .333 | 12.5% | 50.0% | .198 | -0.8 | 13 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 19 | 39 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 10 | .176 | .282 | .294 | .118 | .217 | 10.3% | 25.6% | .266 | -1.7 | 63 | -0.1 | |
| 2015 | 49 | 110 | 25 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 9 | 20 | .253 | .315 | .485 | .232 | .270 | 8.2% | 18.2% | .348 | +2.7 | 122 | 0.5 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 100.0% |
| vs RHP | 20 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | .000 | .100 | .000 | .071 | 40.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 9 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 86.6 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 104.9 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 22.2% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 33.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 19.7° 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, 2018.
Situational hitting
How Matthew den Dekker 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 | 21 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .095 | .000 | .067 |
| Bases empty · thin | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .000 | .100 | .000 | .071 |
| Runner on first · thin | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 11 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | .000 | .091 | .000 | .064 |
| RISP · thin | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | .000 | .167 | .000 | .118 |
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, 2018.
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.