1B · 2023
Matt Reynolds
- Age
- 33
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Number
- #30
- Born
- December 3, 1990 in Tulsa, OK, USA
- MLB debut
- May 17, 2016
- dbWAR
- .2 7 season(s)
- PA
- 5
- AVG
- .200
- OBP
- .200
- SLG
- .200
- wRC+
- 1 100 = avg
Matt Reynolds is a first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2023 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 5 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .200, 19.5% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .200 clip and slugged .200, for an OPS of .400, 45.5% lower than the league mark of .734. He averaged 77.5 mph off the bat and made contact on 50.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 1 wRC+ puts his offence 99% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -0.6 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, 2023.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2023. These four terms sum to -0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .000 | .500 | 0.0% | 60.0% | .177 | -0.6 | 1 | -0.1 | |
| 2022 | 87 | 272 | 60 | 3 | 23 | 5 | 26 | 78 | .246 | .320 | .332 | .086 | .348 | 9.6% | 28.7% | .295 | -3.6 | 84 | 0.7 | |
| 2020 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 63.6% | .000 | -3.0 | -119 | -0.3 | |
| 2018 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .154 | .214 | .154 | .000 | .222 | 7.1% | 28.6% | .176 | -1.6 | 1 | -0.1 | |
| 2017 | 61 | 130 | 26 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 37 | .230 | .326 | .301 | .071 | .333 | 10.8% | 28.5% | .285 | -4.3 | 76 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 41 | 96 | 20 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 34 | .225 | .266 | .416 | .191 | .327 | 4.2% | 35.4% | .295 | -2.0 | 82 | 0.1 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6.75 | 7.61 | 2.25 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 170 | 192 | -0.0 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .221 | 50.0% |
| vs RHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 100.0% |
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 2 tracked batted balls in 2023. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 77.5 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 91.0 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 50.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 36.5° 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, 2023.
Situational hitting
How Matt Reynolds 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 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .200 | .200 | .200 | .177 |
| Bases empty · thin | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .221 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .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, 2023.
Head to head
Put Matt Reynolds beside up to three others.
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.