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Matt Beaty

Kansas City Royals American League Central1B

Age: 30
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #45

Born: April 28, 1993 in Snellville, GA, United States
MLB debut: April 30, 2019

dbWAR: 1.0
PA: 72
AVG: .230
OBP: .347
SLG: .295
wRC+: 84

Matt Beaty was a first baseman for the Kansas City Royals. In 2023 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 14 hits across 72 plate appearances in 29 games. His batting average was .230, 7.6% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .347 clip and slugged .295, for an OPS of .642, 12.5% lower than the league mark of .734. He averaged 82.3 mph off the bat, hit 14.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 78.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 84 wRC+ puts his offence 16% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -1.1 runs with the bat, -0.2 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, +0.7 on double plays, -0.9 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, 2023 regular season.

wRC+84

wOBA.303

ISO.066

BB%8.3%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2023. These terms sum to +0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

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


2023	KC/SF	29	72	14	0	4	0	6	14	.230	.347	.295	.066	.298	8.3%	19.4%	.303	-1.1	84	0.1
2022	SD	18	47	4	0	1	0	2	8	.093	.170	.163	.070	.114	4.3%	17.0%	.160	-5.8	-8	-0.6
2021	LAD	114	234	55	7	40	2	20	44	.270	.363	.402	.132	.314	8.5%	18.8%	.343	+5.1	119	0.9
2020	LAD	19	54	11	2	5	0	2	14	.220	.278	.360	.140	.265	3.7%	25.9%	.281	-1.9	73	-0.2
2019	LAD	98	268	66	9	46	5	17	33	.265	.317	.458	.193	.275	6.3%	12.3%	.326	+0.7	105	0.7

Pitching Regular season

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

																				Trend
2023	SF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	3	3	1	1	27.00	4.26	4.00	9.0	9.0	623	98	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 batting

Postseason Matt Beaty's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2021 Post	LAD	Postseason total	7	11	11	0	1	1	0	1	.091	.091	.091	.182
		Wild Card	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	3	5	5	0	1	1	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400
		NLCS	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2020 Post	LAD	NLCS	2	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	—
2019 Post	LAD	NLDS	4	8	8	1	3	0	0	1	.375	.375	.375	.750
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	13	22	19	1	4	1	1	2	.211	.318	.211	.529

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 he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2023. 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	6	5	0	0	0	1	.000	.167	.000	.122	16.7%
vs RHP	66	56	14	0	6	13	.250	.364	.321	.319	19.7%

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2023. 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	3	2	1	0	1	1	.500	.667	1.000	.657	33.3%
vs RHB	4	4	2	0	0	0	.500	.500	.750	.536	0.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2023.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 47 tracked batted balls in 2023. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 82.3
Max exit velo: 106.1
Hard hit: 14.9%
Sweet spot: 34.0%
Launch angle: 7.5°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity82.3 mph

Hard hit rate14.9%

Contact rate78.8%

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, 2023.

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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 .248.

Situational hitting

How Matt Beaty 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	72	—	—	—	—	—	—	.230	.347	.295	.303
Bases empty	42	35	9	0	0	5	9	.257	.381	.343	.336
Runner on first · thin	14	12	4	0	1	1	0	.333	.429	.417	.382
Runners on	30	26	5	0	4	1	5	.192	.300	.231	.257
RISP · thin	16	14	1	0	3	0	5	.071	.188	.071	.147

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, 2023.

Pitch sequencing

What Matt Beaty throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Fastball

Select a count to see exactly what Matt Beaty throws in it.

Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.


Fastball	100.0%	22	54.3	1,180	36.4%	11.1%	6	—	—

Matt Beaty'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.