P · 2019
Matt Grace
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 215 lb
- Number
- #60
- Born
- December 14, 1988 in Palos Verdes Estates, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- April 22, 2015
Age shown as of the 2020 season.
- dbWAR
- 1.1 9 season(s)
- PA
- 3
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -116 100 = avg
Matt Grace is a pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 3 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He made contact on 28.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -116 wRC+ puts his offence 216% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -0.8 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.
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.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | -0.8 | -116 | -0.1 | |
| 2018 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .293 | -0.1 | 79 | 0.0 | |
| 2017 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 80.0% | .000 | -1.4 | -120 | -0.1 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 54.00 | 18.19 | 7.00 | 18.0 | 18.0 | 1,213 | 408 | -0.1 | |
| 2019 | 51 | 1 | 46.2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 61 | 33 | 35 | 10 | 6.36 | 5.55 | 1.52 | 6.8 | 1.9 | 141 | 123 | -0.3 | |
| 2018 | 56 | 0 | 59.2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 55 | 19 | 48 | 13 | 2.87 | 3.40 | 1.14 | 7.2 | 2.0 | 69 | 82 | 0.8 | |
| 2017 | 40 | 1 | 50.0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 50 | 24 | 31 | 18 | 4.32 | 3.96 | 1.36 | 5.6 | 3.2 | 99 | 91 | 0.5 | |
| 2016 | 6 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.48 | 0.33 | 12.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 11 | 0.1 | |
| 2015 | 26 | 0 | 17.0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 4.24 | 3.07 | 2.00 | 7.4 | 4.2 | 107 | 78 | 0.3 |
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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 100.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 92 | 87 | 28 | 3 | 2 | 25 | .322 | .352 | .471 | .351 | 27.2% |
| vs RHB | 114 | 104 | 33 | 8 | 8 | 10 | .317 | .360 | .635 | .405 | 8.8% |
Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2019.
Situational hitting
How Matt Grace 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 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .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, 2019.
Pitch sequencing
What Matt Grace 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 | 440 | 91.2 | 1,817 | 39.1% | 9.9% | |
| Slider | 213 | 83.4 | 2,001 | 52.6% | 40.0% | |
| Changeup | 31 | 85.3 | 1,577 | 35.5% | 28.6% | |
| Cutter | 19 | 88.9 | 1,881 | 21.1% | 11.1% |
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.