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Birth Date	5-29-1991
Height	6' 2"
Weight	201 lbs

Age	33 years, 10 months, 15 days
Bats	R
Throws	L

: 0.62015
: 3.12016
: -0.32017
: 3.02018
: 1.32019
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Historical (past-seasons) WARP is now based on DRA..
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YEAR	Team	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	BB	SO	HR	PPF	H/9	BB/9	HR/9	K/9	GB%	BABIP	WHIP	FIP	ERA	cFIP	DRA	DRA-	WARP
2015	NYN	6	6	35.7	4	0	34	10	34	4	83	8.6	2.5	1.0	8.6	0%	.300	1.23	3.63	2.27	97	3.62	84.5	0.6
2016	NYN	22	22	132.3	9	8	129	31	129	14	86	8.8	2.1	1.0	8.8	54%	.313	1.21	3.42	3.40	87	3.34	73.8	3.1
2017	NYN	13	13	66.7	2	7	83	19	48	12	93	11.2	2.6	1.6	6.5	49%	.329	1.53	5.06	6.08	110	6.03	128.4	-0.3
2018	NYN	30	30	154.0	5	11	134	58	152	25	89	7.8	3.4	1.5	8.9	50%	.267	1.25	4.58	3.97	99	3.62	80.8	3.0
2019	NYN	32	30	160.3	11	10	163	52	153	27	95	9.1	2.9	1.5	8.6	48%	.301	1.34	4.55	4.21	97	4.39	90.2	2.4
Career		103	101	549.0	31	36	543	170	516	82	90	8.9	2.8	1.3	8.5	50%	.298	1.30	4.29	4.05	97	4.07	87.9	8.8

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'opp' stats - Quality of opponents faced - have been moved and are available only as OPP_QUAL in the Statistics reports now.
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YEAR	Team	Lg	LG	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	BB	SO	HR	PPF	H/9	BB/9	HR/9	K/9	GB%	BABIP	WHIP	FIP	ERA	cFIP	DRA	DRA-
2012	KNG	Rk	APP	6	6	29.0	2	1	16	17	34	1	109	5.0	5.3	0.3	10.6	0%	.227	1.14	3.65	1.55	93	2.69	56.1
2013	SAV	A	SAL	21	21	106.3	5	6	86	38	121	4	84	7.3	3.2	0.3	10.2	0%	.315	1.17	2.90	2.62	88	3.73	81.0
2014	SLU	A+	FSL	12	12	69.3	4	4	66	21	62	0	104	8.6	2.7	0.0	8.0	0%	.328	1.25	2.72	2.21	85	3.73	78.9
2014	BIN	AA	EAS	12	12	71.3	6	5	66	14	69	3	105	8.3	1.8	0.4	8.7	0%	.317	1.12	2.63	2.27	75	3.74	79.2
2015	NYN	MLB	NL	6	6	35.7	4	0	34	10	34	4	83	8.6	2.5	1.0	8.6	0%	.300	1.23	3.63	2.27	97	3.62	84.5
2015	SLU	A+	FSL	2	2	3.7	0	0	7	1	3	0	89	17.2	2.5	0.0	7.4	0%	.500	2.18	2.34	4.91	92	6.56	143.8
2015	BIN	AA	EAS	2	2	11.3	1	0	2	2	10	0	102	1.6	1.6	0.0	7.9	0%	.080	0.35	2.03	0.00	77	1.81	39.8
2015	LVG	AAA	PCL	15	14	90.3	7	4	69	31	94	6	112	6.9	3.1	0.6	9.4	0%	.278	1.11	3.44	2.19	82	2.79	61.1
2016	NYN	MLB	NL	22	22	132.3	9	8	129	31	129	14	86	8.8	2.1	1.0	8.8	54%	.313	1.21	3.42	3.40	87	3.34	73.8
2017	NYN	MLB	NL	13	13	66.7	2	7	83	19	48	12	93	11.2	2.6	1.6	6.5	49%	.329	1.53	5.06	6.08	110	6.03	128.4
2017	SLU	A+	FSL	1	1	3.0	0	0	2	2	3	0	77	6.0	6.0	0.0	9.0	50%	.250	1.33	3.31	3.00	99	3.92	83.3
2017	LVG	AAA	PCL	3	3	13.3	0	1	13	2	17	3	110	8.8	1.4	2.0	11.5	35%	.323	1.13	4.54	6.75	76	2.73	58.0
2018	NYN	MLB	NL	30	30	154.0	5	11	134	58	152	25	89	7.8	3.4	1.5	8.9	50%	.267	1.25	4.58	3.97	99	3.62	80.8
2019	NYN	MLB	NL	32	30	160.3	11	10	163	52	153	27	95	9.1	2.9	1.5	8.6	48%	.301	1.34	4.55	4.21	97	4.39	90.2

Plate Discipline

YEAR	Pits	Zone%	Swing%	Contact%	Z-Swing%	O-Swing%	Z-Contact%	O-Contact%	SwStr%
2015	576	0.5642	0.4514	0.7885	0.5815	0.2829	0.8254	0.6901	0.2115
2016	2145	0.5580	0.4592	0.7726	0.6032	0.2774	0.8380	0.5932	0.2274
2017	1177	0.5285	0.4299	0.8182	0.5932	0.2468	0.8564	0.7153	0.1818
2018	2693	0.5522	0.4270	0.7652	0.5918	0.2239	0.8205	0.5852	0.2348
2019	2701	0.5354	0.4580	0.7688	0.6224	0.2685	0.8322	0.5994	0.2312
Career	9292	0.5464	0.4453	0.7761	0.6029	0.2558	0.8328	0.6142	0.2239

Injury History — No longer being updated

Last Update: 12/31/2014 23:59 ET

Date On	Date Off	Transaction	Days	Side	Body Part	Injury	Severity	Surgery Date	Reaggravation
2013-10-15	2013-10-15	Off	0	-	Knee	Surgery	Patella Debridement	-	-
2011-06-21	2011-09-01	Minors	72	Left	Elbow	Recovery From Surgery	Tommy John Surgery	2010-05-18	-
2010-06-22	2010-08-30	Minors	69	Left	Elbow	Surgery	Tommy John Surgery	2010-05-18

Compensation

Year	Team	Salary
2015	NYN	$
2016	NYN	$515,750
2017	NYN	$562,250
2018	NYN	$577,000
2019	NYN	$2,625,000
2020	NYN	$5,000,000
2021	TOR	$5,200,000
2022	SLN	$8,500,000
2023	SLN	$10,500,000
2024	SLN	$12,500,000
2025	SLN	$12,500,000

Years	Description	Salary
9 yr	Previous	$45,980,000
2019	Current	$12,500,000
10 yr	Pvs + Cur	$58,480,000
10 yr	Total	$58,480,000

Service Time	Agent	Contract Status
7 y 99 d	Icon Sports	4 years/$44M (2022-25)

Details

4 years/$44M (2022-25). Signed by St. Louis as a free agent 11/29/21. $2M signing bonus. 22:$8M, 23:$10M, 24:$12M, 25:$12M. Annual performance bonuses: $200,000 each for 130, 140, 150, 160, 170 innings pitched. Award bonuses: $25,000 for LCS MVP. $50,000 each for All Star, WS MVP, Cy Young ($25,000 for second- to fifth-place finish in Cy Young vote).
1 year/$5.2M (2021). Re-signed by NY Mets 12/2/20 (avoided arbitration). Acquired by Toronto in trade from NY Mets 1/27/21.
1 year/$5M (2020). Re-signed by NY Mets 1/10/20 (avoided arbitration).
1 year/$2.625M (2019). Re-signed by NY Mets 1/11/19 (avoided arbitration).
1 year/$577,000 (2018). Re-signed by NY Mets 3/18.
1 year (2017). Re-signed by NY Mets 3/17.
1 year/$515,750 (2016). Re-signed by NY Mets 3/4/16.
1 year (2015). Re-signed by NY Mets 3/5/15.
1 year (2014). Contract purchased by NY Mets 11/20/13. Re-signed by NY Mets 3/3/14.
Drafted by NY Mets 2009 (2-72) (Melville HS, East Setauket, NY). $895,000 signing bonus.

2019 Preseason Forecast

Last Update: 1/27/2017 12:35 ET

PCT	W	L	SV	G	GS	IP	H	BB	SO	HR	BABIP	WHIP	ERA	DRA	VORP	WARP
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Weighted Mean	?	?	?	?	?	0.0	?	0	0	?	.000	0.00	0.00	?	0.0	0.0

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2020-07-30 12:00:00 (link to chat)	Mets fan here. I've been pleasantly surprised by first starts of Matz, Wacha, and Peterson. What do you think? Have you seen anything from any of them in these starts that makes you a little more optimistic (about each of them specifically)than you were preseason? (Frank from NY)	Wacha has always been at least �fine� when healthy. He�s just rarely healthy and the Mets do tend to struggle to manage more fragile arms over the medium term, like say Steven Matz. Matz I will say seems to have figured out how to be a FB/CH/CU arm and the CH has improved enough over the last couple years that I wouldn�t be shocked if he�s more of a 3 than a 4 this year for whatever 12 starts are worth. Peterson I talked a little bit about above and he was mostly what I expected in his first start. Think he got a little lucky here and there as his command wasn�t particularly fine (although the Mets defense is going to do him no favors) and he needs to tighten the slider or add something with gloveside movement/command to get MLB righties out over the long term. He�s perfectly serviceable but feels more like a 4/5 to me at present. He�s by far the Mets best option for the fifth starter spot though which is its own separate issue. (Jeffrey Paternostro)
2020-03-09 12:00:00 (link to chat)	Have you seen any spring training Steven Matz? If he has the 2015 slider going, is he closer to a 2 than a 4? (Fred from Ny)	I think I saw his first or second outing. "If" is doing a lot of work there, and he ditched the true Warthen slider in part because it made his arm hurt. There is also the matter of whether or not the Mets actually start him assuming all six guys are healthy, but yes, a true swing and miss breaking ball would help the profile. (Jeffrey Paternostro)
2019-08-30 16:00:00 (link to chat)	Thanks for the chat. I have some SP about to be activated as the Fantasy playoffs start so I may need to drop a SP or two in my 20 team H2H league with QS and K/9. Who would you drop from this list: Michael Wacha, Mike Montgomery, Adrian Houser, Steven Brault, Michael Pineda, Steven Matz? (Festivus from Phoenix)	You are welcome for the chat. Wacha and Monty are the names that stand out here. Montgomery has a sweet two-start schedule next week (DET, @MIA) so I'd probably cut Wacha first. He hasn't gone into the sixth inning in, like, forever (or, since June 28, to be exact). (Jon Hegglund)
2019-07-22 15:00:00 (link to chat)	Hi Darius. In one of my dynasty leagues, I'm in my fourth year of a rebuild but am finally on the brink of making the playoffs. I'm considering pushing all my chips in and trading for Steven Matz. Does this seem like a good plan to get me over the hump? (Ferns from PA)	It depends what you mean by 'all my chips' and exactly how deep we're talking, but Matz doesn't seem like a league-winning move. I think he's fine and has certainly flashed more upside than this over the years, which aren't exactly the most ringing endorsements. He seems healthy, at least, which has been a big problem, but I wouldn't use all my chips on some mediocre innings and a decent number of strikeouts. (Darius Austin)
2018-12-12 17:00:00 (link to chat)	Struggling to identify some potential post-hype pitchers to target for cheap this season - you have a couple that you might be scooping up? (Gary Mack from in the back)	I've never been a big fan, but Steven Matz is slipping so far in early drafts. I still believe in the stuff. Collin McHugh is going to start this year barring an off-the-wall move by Houston and is really solid. (Mike Gianella)

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Steven Matz has thrown 17,577 pitches that have been tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2015 and 2025, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2025, he has relied primarily on his Sinker (94mph) and Change (84mph), also mixing in a Curve (79mph) and Slider (88mph).

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