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Matt Harrison

Matthew Reid Harrison

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 240 lb.

Born: September 16, 1985 in Durham, NC
High School: South Granville HS (Creedmoor, NC)
Drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 3rd round of the 2003 amateur draft.
Signed June 3, 2003. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 8, 2008
Team: Rangers 2008-2012
2012 Contract Status: 1st-Year Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$2.95M (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 3.083, Arb Eligible: 2013, Free Agent: 2015 [*],
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Standard Pitching

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	Awards
2003	17	ATL-min	Rk	3	1	.750	3.69	11	6	1	0	0	1	39.0	40	18	16	2	9	0	33	0	0	3	161		1.256	9.2	0.5	2.1	7.6	3.67	BVS · GULF
2004	18	ATL-min	Rk	4	4	.500	4.09	13	12	0	1	0	0	66.0	72	36	30	3	10	1	49	1	1	3	278		1.242	9.8	0.4	1.4	6.7	4.90	DAN · APPY
2005	19	ATL-min	A	12	7	.632	3.23	27	27	0	2	1	0	167.0	151	65	60	17	30	0	118	6	2	3	672		1.084	8.1	0.9	1.6	6.4	3.93	ROM · SALL
2006	20	ATL-min	A+,AA	11	8	.579	3.35	26	25	0	3	1	0	158.2	160	66	59	12	33	0	114	5	6	5	657		1.216	9.1	0.7	1.9	6.5	3.45	MYR,MSS · CARL,SOUL
2007	21	ATL-min	AA	5	7	.417	3.39	20	20	0	0	0	0	116.2	118	51	44	6	34	0	78	1	3	2	487		1.303	9.1	0.5	2.6	6.0	2.29	MSS · SOUL
2008	22	TEX-min	AA,AAA	6	3	.667	3.43	15	15	0	1	1	0	84.0	89	38	32	6	28	0	55	0	1	1	359		1.393	9.5	0.6	3.0	5.9	1.96	FRI,OKC · TL,PCL
2008	22	TEX	AL	9	3	.750	5.49	15	15	0	1	1	0	83.2	100	57	51	12	31	2	42	2	2	2	372	81	1.566	10.8	1.3	3.3	4.5	1.35
2009	23	TEX-min	AA	0	1	.000	3.00	3	3	0	0	0	0	9.0	9	3	3	0	4	0	7	0	0	0	38		1.444	9.0	0.0	4.0	7.0	1.75	FRI · TL
2009	23	TEX	AL	4	5	.444	6.11	11	11	0	2	1	0	63.1	81	43	43	9	23	0	34	2	0	0	283	76	1.642	11.5	1.3	3.3	4.8	1.48
2010	24	TEX-min	AAA,AA	0	1	.000	4.91	3	1	1	0	0	1	7.1	12	5	4	1	1	0	8	0	0	1	34		1.773	14.7	1.2	1.2	9.8	8.00	OKC,FRI · PCL,TL
2010	24	TEX	AL	3	2	.600	4.71	37	6	9	0	0	2	78.1	80	45	41	10	39	3	46	2	0	4	356	95	1.519	9.2	1.1	4.5	5.3	1.18
2011	25	TEX	AL	14	9	.609	3.39	31	30	0	0	0	0	185.2	180	79	70	13	57	1	126	1	1	6	772	130	1.276	8.7	0.6	2.8	6.1	2.21
2012	26	TEX	AL	6	3	.667	4.41	10	10	0	0	0	0	63.1	72	32	31	6	15	0	41	0	0	1	267	99	1.374	10.2	0.9	2.1	5.8	2.73
5 Yrs				36	22	.621	4.48	104	72	9	3	2	2	474.1	513	256	236	50	165	6	289	7	3	13	2050	100	1.429	9.7	0.9	3.1	5.5	1.75
162 Game Avg.				14	9	.621	4.48	40	28	3	1	1	1	183	198	99	91	19	64	2	112	3	1	5	792	100	1.429	9.7	0.9	3.1	5.5	1.75

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	IP	G	GS	R	RA9	RA9opp	RA9def	RA9role	PPFp	RA9avg	RAA	WAA	gmLI	WAAadj	WAR	RAR	waaWL%	162WL%	Salary
2008	22	TEX	AL	83.2	15	15	57	6.13	4.62	-0.29	0.18	100.2	5.10	-11	-1.1		-0.1	-0.4	0	.430	.494	$
2009	23	TEX	AL	63.1	11	11	43	6.11	4.54	0.03	0.18	106.2	4.97	-8	-0.8		-0.0	-0.3	-0	.428	.495	$405,500
2010	24	TEX	AL	78.1	37	6	45	5.17	4.31	-0.06	-0.12	105.8	4.50	-6	-0.7	1.1	-0.1	-0.1	3	.482	.496	$406,090
2011	25	TEX	AL	185.2	31	30	79	3.83	4.39	0.11	0.15	106.7	4.73	18	2.0	.5	-0.1	3.5	40	.564	.512	$428,830
2012	26	TEX	AL	63.1	10	10	32	4.55	4.40	0.28	0.17	107.4	4.61	0	0.0		-0.1	0.5	7	.502	.500	$
5 Seasons				474.1	104	72	256	4.86	4.44	0.03	0.12	105.4	4.77	-8	-0.5	1.1	-0.5	3.2	50	.495	.499	$1,240,420

Postseason Pitching

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Rslt	Opp	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	WP	BF	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
2011	25	TEX	AL	ALDS	W	TBR	1	0	1.000	4.76	2	1	5.2	6	3	3	0	3	0	9	1	26	1.588	9.5	0.0	4.8	14.3	3.00
2011	25	TEX	AL	ALCS	W	DET	0	0		3.60	1	1	5.0	3	2	2	0	3	0	3	0	20	1.200	5.4	0.0	5.4	5.4	1.00
2011	25	TEX	AL	WS	L	STL	0	2	.000	7.04	2	2	7.2	11	8	6	2	3	1	4	0	37	1.826	12.9	2.3	3.5	4.7	1.33
1 Yr (3 Series)							1	2	.333	5.40	5	4	18.1	20	13	11	2	9	1	16	1	83	1.582	9.8	1.0	4.4	7.9	1.78
1 ALDS							1	0	1.000	4.76	2	1	5.2	6	3	3	0	3	0	9	1	26	1.588	9.5	0.0	4.8	14.3	3.00
1 ALCS							0	0		3.60	1	1	5.0	3	2	2	0	3	0	3	0	20	1.200	5.4	0.0	5.4	5.4	1.00
1 WS							0	2	.000	7.04	2	2	7.2	11	8	6	2	3	1	4	0	37	1.826	12.9	2.3	3.5	4.7	1.33

Batting Against -- Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	BAbip	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	ROE
2008	22	TEX	AL	15	372	333	57	100	29	4	12	3	3	31	42	.300	.358	.520	.878	.310	173	10	2	1	5	2	3
2009	23	TEX	AL	11	283	256	43	81	18	1	9	3	3	23	34	.316	.376	.500	.876	.336	128	8	2	1	1	0	1
2010	24	TEX	AL	37	356	305	45	80	14	1	10	5	1	39	46	.262	.342	.413	.755	.272	126	6	2	2	8	3	7
2011	25	TEX	AL	31	772	701	79	180	37	3	13	3	3	57	126	.257	.312	.374	.685	.295	262	30	1	8	5	1	15
2012	26	TEX	AL	10	267	251	32	72	15	3	6	0	1	15	41	.287	.326	.442	.768	.322	111	6	0	0	1	0	1
5 Yrs				104	2050	1846	256	513	113	12	50	14	11	165	289	.278	.336	.433	.769	.303	800	60	7	12	20	6	27
162 Game Avg.				40	792	713	99	198	44	5	19	5	4	64	112	.278	.336	.433	.769	.303	309	23	3	5	8	2	10
MLB Averages																.259	.327	.408	.736	.297

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PtchR	PitchW	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo
2008	22	TEX	AL	-10.1	-1.0	382	-1.0	5.9	-7.0	.93	-1.2	0.1	-13.1	-1.2	0.93	-12.8	0	0	0
2009	23	TEX	AL	-8.3	-0.8	288	-0.9	4.4	-5.3	.89	-0.7	-0.3	-5.4	-0.5	0.89	-7.1	0	0	0
2010	24	TEX	AL	-2.1	-0.2	367	-1.0	5.9	-6.9	1.00	-0.4	-0.6	-8.3	-0.8	1.00	-5.1	11	6	14
2011	25	TEX	AL	19.0	2.0	784	1.9	13.8	-11.9	.98	1.7	0.2	17.5	1.7	0.98	19.5	0	0	1
2012	26	TEX	AL	0.4	0.0	270	0.6	4.1	-3.5	.81	0.4	0.3	2.6	0.3	0.81	2.4	0	0	0
5 Yrs				-1.0	0.1	2091	-0.5	34.1	-34.6	.94	-0.2	-0.3	-6.6	-0.5	0.94	-3.1	11	6	15

Starting Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	GS	Wgs	Lgs	ND	Wchp	Ltuf	Wtm	Ltm	tmW-L%	Wlst	Lsv	CG	SHO	QS	QS%	GmScA	Best	Wrst	BQR	BQS	sDR	lDR	RS/GS	RS/IP	IP/GS	Pit/GS	<80	80-99	100-119	≥120	Max
2008	22	TEX	AL	15	15	9	3	3	3	0	10	5	.667	1	2	1	1	6	40%	42.9	84	12	12	2	0	7	8.4	7.7	5.6	91	3	8	4	0	118
2009	23	TEX	AL	11	11	4	5	2	2	0	5	6	.455	1	2	2	1	2	18%	41.4	83	17	5	4	0	7	4.0	3.8	5.8	97	0	7	4	0	112
2010	24	TEX	AL	37	6	1	1	4	0	1	2	4	.333	2	2	0	0	3	50%	45.2	61	28	12	1	0	2	5.9	6.3	5.7	104	1	1	3	1	127
2011	25	TEX	AL	31	30	14	9	7	1	3	20	10	.667	2	2	0	0	20	67%	52.9	73	13	19	4	1	15	4.8	4.9	6.1	100	3	7	20	0	119
2012	26	TEX	AL	10	10	6	3	1	0	0	6	4	.600	0	1	0	0	6	60%	49.2	66	13	6	4	0	4	5.6	5.2	6.3	102	0	4	5	1	120
5 Yrs				104	72	34	21	17	6	4	43	29	.597	6	9	3	2	37	51%	48	84	12	54	15	1	35	5.6	5.4	5.9	98	7	27	36	2	127
MLB Averages													.500						51%	50	100	-13					4.5	4.5	5.9	96

Reliever Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	GR	GF	Wgr	Lgr	SVOpp	SV	BSv	SV%	SVSit	Hold	IR	IS	IS%	1^stIP	aLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo	Ahd	Tie	Bhd	Runr	Empt	>3o	<3o	IPmult	0DR	Out/GR	Pit/GR
2010	24	TEX	AL	37	31	9	2	1	3	2	1	67%	6	3	22	10	45%	7	1.005	11	6	14	13	5	13	13	18	11	11	11	2	4.3	25
2011	25	TEX	AL	31	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0		5	.975	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	6.0	26
2 Yrs				68	32	9	2	1	3	2	1	67%	6	3	22	10	45%		.984	11	6	15	13	5	14	13	19	12	11	12	2	4.3	25

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GB/FB	GO/AO	IP%	LD%	HR/FB	IF/FB	DPopp	DPs	DP%
2008	22	TEX	AL	372	27%	3.2%	11.3%	8.3%	12.1%	45%	0.67	0.94	76%	23%	7.6%	10%	66	10	15%
2009	23	TEX	AL	283	23%	3.2%	12.0%	8.1%	9.9%	35%	0.90	1.28	76%	25%	8.7%	12%	60	8	13%
2010	24	TEX	AL	356	28%	2.8%	12.9%	11.0%	7.0%	31%	0.88	1.24	72%	20%	7.9%	9%	83	6	7%
2011	25	TEX	AL	772	29%	1.7%	16.3%	7.4%	6.9%	29%	0.96	1.30	73%	17%	5.2%	14%	132	30	23%
2012	26	TEX	AL	267	28%	2.3%	15.4%	5.6%	9.0%	33%	1.05	1.39	77%	18%	6.6%	10%	43	6	14%
5 Yrs				2050	28%	2.4%	14.1%	8.1%	8.5%	34%	0.89	1.22	74%	20%	6.9%	12%	384	60	16%
MLB Averages					45%	2.6%	18.2%	8.5%	7.7%	33%	0.80	1.08	69%	19%	7.5%	13%			11%

Pitch Summary -- Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Pit	Pit/PA	Str	Str%	L/Str	S/Str	F/Str	I/Str	AS/Str	I/Bll	AS/Pit	Con	1st%	30%	30c	30s	02%	02c	02s	02h	L/SO	3pK	4pW	PAu	Pitu	Stru
2008	22	TEX	AL	372	1371	3.69	837	61%	26%	12%	27%	35%	74%	1%	45%	83%	55%	6%	24	17	17%	64	26	5	10%	4	5	0	0	0
2009	23	TEX	AL	283	1068	3.77	637	60%	26%	12%	27%	35%	74%	0%	44%	84%	57%	6%	17	9	17%	48	22	3	26%	3	8	0	0	0
2010	24	TEX	AL	356	1400	3.93	841	60%	27%	13%	28%	32%	73%	2%	44%	82%	54%	7%	25	16	22%	78	31	3	33%	3	7	0	0	0
2011	25	TEX	AL	773	3016	3.90	1857	62%	27%	13%	28%	32%	73%	0%	45%	82%	56%	6%	49	38	22%	169	85	10	28%	18	10	-1	0	0
2012	26	TEX	AL	267	1021	3.82	651	64%	31%	12%	25%	32%	69%	0%	44%	82%	59%	4%	10	9	22%	58	28	2	20%	3	1	0	0	0
5 Yrs				2051	7876	3.84	4823	61%	27%	13%	27%	33%	73%	1%	45%	83%	56%	6%	125	89	20%	417	192	23	25%	31	31	-1	0	0
MLB Averages						3.81		63%	28%	15%	27%	30%	72%	2%	45%	79%	59%	5%			23%				25%

Baserunning & Situational Stats*

					Hits			Home Runs							Advances				Baserunning
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	H	Inf	Bnt	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	<2,3B	Scr	SO	%	ROE	WP	PB	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	BT	PAu
2008	22	TEX	AL	372	100	9	1	12	0	3	9	3	7	5	23	17	0	74%	3	2	1	139	3	3	50%	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	0
2009	23	TEX	AL	283	81	5	1	9	0	6	8	1	3	6	18	11	2	61%	1	0	0	112	3	3	50%	3	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0
2010	24	TEX	AL	356	80	9	4	10	1	16	8	2	5	5	25	18	2	72%	7	4	0	152	5	1	83%	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	15	0
2011	25	TEX	AL	772	180	30	4	13	0	15	8	5	7	6	33	23	3	70%	15	6	0	262	3	3	50%	3	3	0	0	0	0	2	2	17	0
2012	26	TEX	AL	267	72	11	1	6	0	2	5	1	2	4	8	5	1	63%	1	1	1	92	0	1	0%	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	0
5 Yrs				2050	513	64	11	50	1	42	38	12	24	26	107	74	8	69%	27	13	2	757	14	11	56%	13	11	1	0	0	0	4	4	47	0
MLB Averages																		52%							72%

Cumulative Pitching

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	ERA+
2008	22	9	3	.750	5.49	15	15	0	1	1	0	83.2	100	57	51	12	31	2	42	2	2	2	372	81	1.566	10.8	1.3	3.3	4.5	1.35	81
2009	23	13	8	.619	5.76	26	26	0	3	2	0	147.0	181	100	94	21	54	2	76	4	2	2	655	79	1.599	11.1	1.3	3.3	4.7	1.41	79
2010	24	16	10	.615	5.39	63	32	9	3	2	2	225.1	261	145	135	31	93	5	122	6	2	6	1011	84	1.571	10.4	1.2	3.7	4.9	1.31	84
2011	25	30	19	.612	4.49	94	62	9	3	2	2	411.0	441	224	205	44	150	6	248	7	3	12	1783	100	1.438	9.7	1.0	3.3	5.4	1.65	100
2012	26	36	22	.621	4.48	104	72	9	3	2	2	474.1	513	256	236	50	165	6	289	7	3	13	2050	100	1.429	9.7	0.9	3.1	5.5	1.75	100

Neutralized Pitching

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All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	WHIP	H/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	HR/9	Gact
2008	22	3	5	.375	5.63	80.0	99	56	50	12	31	40	2	1.625	11.1	3.5	4.5	1.29	1.4	15
2009	23	2	4	.333	6.00	60.0	78	44	40	9	22	32	2	1.667	11.7	3.3	4.8	1.45	1.4	11
2010	24	3	5	.375	4.73	78.0	80	46	41	10	39	46	2	1.526	9.2	4.5	5.3	1.18	1.2	37
2011	25	11	8	.579	3.47	179.0	178	77	69	13	56	121	1	1.307	8.9	2.8	6.1	2.16	0.7	31
2012	26	3	3	.500	4.50	60.0	71	33	30	6	15	39	0	1.433	10.7	2.3	5.9	2.60	0.9	10
5 Yrs		22	25	.468	4.53	457.0	506	256	230	50	163	278	7	1.464	10.0		5.5	1.71	1.0	104

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Wins s c a p y 2012 AL 6 (2nd)	Bases On Balls per 9 IP s c a p y 2012 AL 2.132 (9th)	Complete Games s c a p y 2009 AL 2 (9th)	Shutouts s c a p y 2008 AL 1 (9th) 2009 AL 1 (7th)
Hits s c a p y 2012 AL 72 (5th)	Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y 2011 AL 0.630 (4th)	Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y 2011 AL 131 (9th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink	Pitching - 10 (1485), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 5 (1308), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

Similarity Scores

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Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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