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Matt Barnes

Washington Nationals National League East

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 208 lb

Born: June 17, 1990 in Danbury, CT, United States
MLB debut: September 9, 2014
Drafted: 2011, round 1
College: Connecticut
High school: Bethel
Salary, 2024: $2M

dbWAR: 6.4
IP: 13.1
ERA: 6.75
FIP: 3.54
K/9: 6.8
FIP−: 87

Matt Barnes was a relief pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2024 he struck out 10 batters over 13.1 innings across 14 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 6.75 was 65.5% higher than the league average of 4.08. Stripping out defence, his 3.54 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 21.5% of swings (9.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.7%. His 0.2 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2024 regular season.

FIP3.54

K/96.8

WHIP1.50

WAR.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2024	WSH	14	0	13.1	0	0	0	16	10	10	4	6.75	3.54	1.50	6.8	2.7	165	87	0.2
2023	MIA	24	1	21.1	1	0	0	25	13	20	10	5.48	4.15	1.64	8.4	4.2	127	96	0.2
2022	BOS	44	0	39.2	0	4	8	36	19	34	21	4.31	3.87	1.44	7.7	4.8	109	97	0.3
2021	BOS	60	0	54.2	6	5	24	41	23	84	20	3.79	3.21	1.12	13.8	3.3	89	75	1.1
2020	BOS	24	0	23.0	1	3	9	18	11	31	14	4.30	4.84	1.39	12.1	5.5	97	109	0.1
2019	BOS	70	0	64.1	5	4	4	51	27	110	38	3.78	3.28	1.38	15.4	5.3	84	73	1.3
2018	BOS	62	0	61.2	6	4	0	47	25	96	31	3.65	2.71	1.26	14.0	4.5	88	65	1.4
2017	BOS	70	0	69.2	7	3	1	57	30	83	28	3.88	3.33	1.22	10.7	3.6	89	76	1.2
2016	BOS	62	0	66.2	4	3	1	62	30	71	31	4.05	3.72	1.39	9.6	4.2	97	89	0.9
2015	BOS	32	2	43.0	3	4	0	56	26	39	15	5.44	5.23	1.65	8.2	3.1	137	132	-0.3
2014	BOS	5	0	9.0	0	0	0	11	4	8	2	4.00	3.47	1.44	8.0	2.0	107	93	0.1

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

																					Trend
2019	BOS	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-117	-0.0	—

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Matt Barnes's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	W	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2021 Post	BOS	ALDS	1	1.0	0	1	0	0	2	1	0.00	3.00	9.0
2018 Post	BOS	Postseason total	10	8.2	2	3	1	1	6	9	1.04	1.04	9.3
		ALDS	2	2.0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0.00	0.50	4.5
		ALCS	5	4.1	1	1	1	1	4	4	2.08	1.15	8.3
		World Series	3	2.1	1	2	0	0	1	4	0.00	1.29	15.4
2016 Post	BOS	ALDS	1	1.2	0	3	0	0	0	1	0.00	1.80	5.4
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	12	11.1	2	7	1	1	8	11	0.79	1.32	8.7

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2024. 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	32	28	7	1	3	5	.250	.323	.429	.329	15.6%
vs RHB	28	27	9	0	1	5	.333	.357	.407	.336	17.9%

Pitch sequencing

What Matt Barnes 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, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Knuckle Curve	43.5%	103	81.5	1,867	39.8%	25.0%	18	.278	.714
Four-Seam Fastball	39.2%	93	91.4	2,124	39.8%	18.8%	27	.259	.619
Splitter	17.3%	41	86.3	1,438	36.6%	21.1%	10	—	—

Matt Barnes'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. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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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.