{"id":16161,"date":"2018-12-18T21:20:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T02:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/\/?p=16161"},"modified":"2018-12-18T21:20:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T02:20:30","slug":"report-matt-harvey-signs-one-year-deal-with-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2018\/12\/18\/report-matt-harvey-signs-one-year-deal-with-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Matt Harvey Signs One-Year Deal with Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dark Knight has relocated from Gotham to the sunny shores of California today, as SP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/harvema01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Harvey<\/a> agrees to a one-year $11M pillow contract with the Los Angeles Angels. Per Jon Heyman, the deal also includes $3m in incentives based on games started.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Matt Harvey\u2019s Angels deal for the 11M guarantee has the 3M incentives based on games started between 15 and 26 gs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Feinsand?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Feinsand<\/a> 1st with agreement<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/1075198738359091200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Matt Harvey Signs One-Year Deal with the Los Angeles Angeles<\/h2>\n<p>2018 finally saw the end of Harvey&#8217;s career as a Met, which ended with him being DFA&#8217;d on May 5th. He was shipped to the Cincinnati Reds on May 8<sup>th<\/sup> and spent the rest of the season in their rotation. Harvey&#8217;s overall numbers were decidedly pedestrian (7-9 with a 4.94 ERA and 1.30 WHIP) and he struggled to strike out batters (19.8% K%) as well.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, Harvey&#8217;s second-half peripherals jumped markedly and are the reason he was able to garner $11m in guaranteed cash. Advanced looks into his 5.37 second-half ERA were positive (4.68 FIP, 3.88 xFIP, 3.80 SIERA) and his ability to strike batters out rose as the season progressed:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"133\"><strong>Name<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"43\"><strong>IP<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"72\"><strong>K%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"84\"><strong>O-Swing%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"96\"><strong>O-Contact%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"81\"><strong>Contact%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"87\"><strong>F-Strike%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"68\"><strong>SwStr%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"133\">Mets<\/td>\n<td width=\"43\">27<\/td>\n<td width=\"72\">16.30%<\/td>\n<td width=\"84\">21.10%<\/td>\n<td width=\"96\">71.20%<\/td>\n<td width=\"81\">81.80%<\/td>\n<td width=\"87\">55.30%<\/td>\n<td width=\"68\">8.20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"133\">Reds (1st Half)<\/td>\n<td width=\"43\">64.1<\/td>\n<td width=\"72\">18.40%<\/td>\n<td width=\"84\">27.70%<\/td>\n<td width=\"96\">68.70%<\/td>\n<td width=\"81\">82.10%<\/td>\n<td width=\"87\">62.60%<\/td>\n<td width=\"68\">8.60%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"133\">Reds (2nd Half)<\/td>\n<td width=\"43\">63.2<\/td>\n<td width=\"72\">22.70%<\/td>\n<td width=\"84\">29.20%<\/td>\n<td width=\"96\">63.80%<\/td>\n<td width=\"81\">77.80%<\/td>\n<td width=\"87\">66.70%<\/td>\n<td width=\"68\">11.20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These rates are close to what Harvey posted in 2015, and his production in September eclipsed even that (25.4% K%, 36.3% O-Swing%, 14.3% SwStr%). Changes to his <a href=\"https:\/\/baseballsavant.mlb.com\/savant-player\/matt-harvey-518774?stats=statcast-r-pitching-milb\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pitching mix<\/a>, particularly in September, caused his arsenal to be more effective against hitters, as did his improved control (-5.3% BB% in 2018).<\/p>\n<h2>Verdict<\/h2>\n<p>Harvey&#8217;s second-half performance is promising for the Angels, and he has the potential to make this contract a steal for them in 2019. In order to do so, however, he must maintain the strikeout ability he showed towards the end of the season. 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Per Jon Heyman, the deal also includes $3m in incentives based on games started. Matt Harvey\u2019s Angels deal for the 11M guarantee has the 3M [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2868,"featured_media":16165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[124,156,2262,164],"class_list":["post-16161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-angels","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-new-york-mets"],"modified_by":"John Flanigan","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}