Players · D · 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, United States
- MLB debut
- May 22, 2014
- Drafted
- 2012, round 18
- College
- Long Beach State
- High school
- Lakewood
- dbWAR
- 7.8 10 season(s)
- PA
- 10
- AVG
- .286
- OBP
- .500
- SLG
- .286
- wRC+
- 165 100 = avg
Matt Duffy was 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 for the ballpark, -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, 2024.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2024. These terms sum to +1.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | TEX | 3 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .286 | .500 | .286 | .000 | .333 | 20.0% | 10.0% | .394 | +0.7 | 165 | 0.1 | |
| 2023 | KC | 76 | 209 | 48 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 12 | 39 | .251 | .306 | .325 | .073 | .303 | 5.7% | 18.7% | .283 | -6.6 | 71 | 0.1 | |
| 2022 | LAA | 76 | 247 | 57 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 17 | 50 | .250 | .308 | .311 | .061 | .313 | 6.9% | 20.2% | .281 | -6.2 | 76 | 0.1 | |
| 2021 | CHC | 97 | 322 | 83 | 5 | 30 | 8 | 25 | 63 | .287 | .357 | .381 | .093 | .351 | 7.8% | 19.6% | .330 | +3.4 | 107 | 1.1 | |
| 2019 | TB | 44 | 169 | 37 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 19 | 29 | .252 | .343 | .327 | .075 | .305 | 11.2% | 17.2% | .302 | -3.0 | 89 | 0.3 | |
| 2018 | TB | 131 | 560 | 148 | 4 | 44 | 12 | 47 | 93 | .294 | .361 | .366 | .072 | .353 | 8.4% | 16.6% | .326 | +3.5 | 108 | 2.3 | |
| 2016 | SF/TB | 90 | 366 | 86 | 5 | 28 | 8 | 23 | 53 | .258 | .310 | .357 | .099 | .290 | 6.3% | 14.5% | .295 | -7.8 | 82 | 0.4 | |
| 2015 | SF | 149 | 612 | 169 | 12 | 77 | 12 | 30 | 96 | .295 | .334 | .428 | .133 | .336 | 4.9% | 15.7% | .334 | +8.5 | 118 | 3.5 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
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% |
No pitching splits recorded for 2024.
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.
Pitch arsenal
What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.
| Fastball | 22 | 78.0 | 1,720 | 36.4% | 14.3% | 8 | — | — |
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.