3B · 2024
Matt Duffy
- Age
- 33
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Number
- #50
- Born
- January 15, 1991 in Long Beach, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- May 22, 2014
- Drafted
- 2012, round 18
- College
- Long Beach State
- High school
- Lakewood
- dbWAR
- .1 1 season(s)
- PA
- 10
- AVG
- .286
- OBP
- .500
- SLG
- .286
- wRC+
- 165 100 = avg
Matt Duffy is a third baseman for the Texas Rangers. In 2024 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 10 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .286, 17.4% higher than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged .286, for an OPS of .786, 10.5% higher than the league mark of .711. He averaged 98.8 mph off the bat, hit 66.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 76.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 165 wRC+ puts his offence 65% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.7 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, 2024.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2024. These four terms sum to +1.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .500 | .667 | .500 | .538 | 16.7% |
| vs RHP | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .178 | 0.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2024.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 6 tracked batted balls in 2024. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 98.8 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 104.8 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 66.7% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 33.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 14.2° 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, 2024.
Situational hitting
How Matt Duffy 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 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .286 | .500 | .286 | .394 |
| Bases empty · thin | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .500 | .667 | .500 | .533 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .185 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .246 |
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, 2024.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .286 | .500 | .286 | .000 | .333 | 20.0% | 10.0% | .394 | +0.7 | 165 | 0.1 | — |
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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.