P · 2019

Noah Syndergaard

Age: 31
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 242 lb
Number: #34

Born: August 29, 1992 in Mansfield, TX, USA
MLB debut: May 12, 2015

Age shown as of the 2023 season.

dbWAR: 16.7
PA: 69
AVG: .092
OBP: .132
SLG: .200
wRC+: -21

Noah Syndergaard is a pitcher for the New York Mets. In 2019 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 6 hits across 69 plate appearances in 30 games. His batting average was .092, 63.4% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .132 clip and slugged .200, for an OPS of .332, 56.1% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 89.1 mph off the bat, hit 53.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 20.0% of them and made contact on 47.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -21 wRC+ puts his offence 121% below average. That comes to -0.8 dbWAR — -10.5 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, 2019.

wRC+-21

wOBA.145

ISO.108

BB%4.3%

WAR-.8

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -8.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	30	69	6	2	2	3	47	.092	.132	.200	.108	.250	4.3%	68.1%	.145	-10.5	-21	-0.8
2018	23	52	6	0	3	1	32	.128	.143	.170	.043	.375	1.9%	61.5%	.138	-7.6	-27	-0.6
2017	6	13	2	0	0	3	5	.222	.417	.222	.000	.500	23.1%	38.5%	.323	-0.0	103	0.0
2016	27	67	11	3	6	7	34	.190	.277	.397	.207	.381	10.4%	50.7%	.297	-1.3	83	0.1
2015	22	50	9	1	4	1	26	.209	.227	.302	.093	.500	2.0%	52.0%	.233	-3.3	42	-0.2

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2023	18	18	88.2	2	6	104	64	56	19	6.50	6.20	1.39	5.7	1.9	150	143	-0.9
2022	25	24	134.2	10	10	138	59	95	31	3.94	3.83	1.25	6.3	2.1	99	97	1.6
2021	2	2	2.0	0	1	3	2	2	0	9.00	7.67	1.50	9.0	0.0	211	180	-0.1
2019	32	32	197.2	10	8	194	94	202	50	4.28	3.60	1.23	9.2	2.3	95	80	3.7
2018	25	25	154.1	13	4	148	52	155	39	3.03	2.80	1.21	9.0	2.3	73	68	3.9
2017	7	7	30.1	1	2	29	10	34	3	2.97	1.31	1.05	10.1	0.9	68	30	1.3
2016	31	30	183.2	14	9	168	53	218	43	2.60	2.29	1.15	10.7	2.1	62	55	5.7
2015	24	24	150.0	9	7	126	54	166	31	3.24	3.25	1.05	10.0	1.9	82	82	2.8

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	17	16	0	0	1	15	.000	.059	.000	.042	88.2%
vs RHP	52	49	6	2	2	32	.122	.157	.265	.180	61.5%

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	378	350	93	13	21	78	.266	.310	.440	.316	20.6%
vs RHB	446	408	101	11	28	124	.248	.297	.385	.293	27.8%

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 15 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 20.0%
Exit velocity: 89.1
Max exit velo: 108.4
Hard hit: 53.3%
Sweet spot: 40.0%
Launch angle: 21.3°

Barrel rate20.0%

Exit velocity89.1 mph

Hard hit rate53.3%

Contact rate47.0%

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 Noah Syndergaard 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	69	—	—	—	—	—	—	.092	.132	.200	.145
Bases empty	45	43	6	2	2	2	28	.140	.178	.302	.204
Runner on first · thin	11	10	0	0	0	0	8	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	24	22	0	0	0	1	19	.000	.043	.000	.031
RISP · thin	13	12	0	0	0	1	11	.000	.077	.000	.055

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 Noah Syndergaard 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	29.7%	920	97.5	2,106	47.8%	17.7%
Four-Seam Fastball	29.3%	906	97.8	2,197	51.8%	24.5%
Changeup	16.3%	503	91.1	1,689	45.7%	28.2%
Slider	15.2%	470	89.1	2,178	51.7%	39.4%
Curveball	9.5%	293	80.4	2,275	49.1%	45.7%

Noah Syndergaard'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.