Brice Matthews

23-Year-Old Second Baseman2B
2025 Fantasy Outlook
One of the reasons the Astros tried Jose Altuve in left field is because Matthews has a chance to be the team's second baseman of the future. He has enough power to hit 20-plus homers and enough speed to steal 30-plus bases, Matthews just needs to make enough contact at the plate. He has always run high strikeout rates and there was known hit tool risk when Houston selected him as one of the better athletes among the college hitters at the end of the first round in 2023. Matthews had a 30.2 percent strikeout rate and 15.4 percent walk rate at Triple-A prior to getting the call this summer. He's one of those high-K hitters who doesn't chase much but also swings and misses at too many pitches in and around the zone. Houston should be committed to giving Matthews opportunities next year even if he can't find his footing against big-league pitching in 2025. He is more appealing in OBP leagues than batting average leagues. Read Past Outlooks
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Signed a one-year contract with the Astros in July of 2025.
Not starting Sunday
2BHouston Astros
July 13, 2025
Matthews is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Rangers, Chandler Rome of The Athletic reports.
Analysis
Matthews started at second base in his first two MLB games after being promoted Friday, and he'll take a seat after going 0-for-7 with five strikeouts. Mauricio Dubon will shift to the keystone while Zack Short receives a start at shortstop.
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Batting Order Slot Breakdown
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Left/Right Batting Splits
Since 2023
No Stats
2025
No Stats
2024
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2023
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OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2023vs Left .000 1 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
Since 2023vs Right .000 6 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
2025vs Left .000 1 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
2025vs Right .000 6 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
2024vs Left 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2024vs Right 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023vs Left 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023vs Right 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Home/Away Batting Splits
Since 2023
No Stats
2025
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2024
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2023
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OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2023Home .000 7 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
Since 2023Away 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2025Home .000 7 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
2025Away 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2024Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2024Away 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023Away 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Stat Review
How does Brice Matthews compare to other hitters?
This section compares his stats with all batting seasons from the previous three seasons (minimum 400 plate appearances)*. The bar represents the player's percentile rank. For example, if the bar is halfway across, then the player falls into the 50th percentile for that stat and it would be considered average.

* Exit Velocity and Barrels/PA % are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 400 PA) and Hard Hit Rate is benchmarked against last season's data (min 400 PA). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.
  • BB/K
    Walk to strikeout ratio
  • BB Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a walk.
  • K Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a strikeout.
  • BABIP
    Batting average on balls in play. Measures how many of a batter’s balls in play go for hits.
  • ISO
    Isolated Power. Slugging percentage minus batting average. A computation used to measure a batter's raw power.
  • AVG
    Batting average. Hits divided by at bats.
  • OBP
    On Base Percentage. A measure of how often a batters reaches base. Roughly equal to number of times on base divided by plate appearances.
  • SLG
    Slugging Percentage. A measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats.
  • OPS
    On base plus slugging. THe sum of a batter's on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
  • wOBA
    Weighted on-base average. Measures a player's overall offensive contributions per plate appearance. wOBA combines all the different aspects of hitting into one metric, weighting each of them in proportion to their actual run value.
  • Exit Velocity
    The speed of the baseball as it comes off the bat, immediately after a batter makes contact.
  • Hard Hit Rate
    A measure of contact quality from Sports Info Solutions. This stat explains what percentage of batted balls were hit hard vs. medium or soft.
  • Barrels/PA
    The percentage of plate appearances where a batter had a batted ball classified as a Barrel. A Barrel is a batted ball with similar exit velocity and launch angle to past ones that led to a minimum .500 batting average and 1.500 slugging percentage.
  • Expected BA
    Expected Batting Average.
  • Expected SLG
    Expected Slugging Percentage.
  • Sprint Speed
    The speed of a runner from home to first, in feet per second.
  • Ground Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are on the ground.
  • Line Drive %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are line drives.
  • Fly Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are fly balls.
BB/K
0.00
 
BB Rate
0.0%
 
K Rate
71.4%
 
BABIP
.000
 
ISO
.000
 
AVG
.000
 
OBP
.000
 
SLG
.000
 
OPS
.000
 
wOBA
.000
 
Exit Velocity
97.4 mph
 
Hard Hit Rate
50.0%
 
Barrels/PA
0.0%
 
Expected BA
.083
 
Expected SLG
.163
 
Sprint Speed
24.9 ft/sec
 
Ground Ball %
0.0%
 
Line Drive %
50.0%
 
Fly Ball %
50.0%
 
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Officially called up
2BHouston Astros
July 11, 2025
The Astros selected Matthews' contract from Triple-A Sugar Land on Friday.
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Joining Astros on Friday
2BHouston Astros
July 10, 2025
The Astros are expected to select Matthews' contract from Triple-A Sugar Land on Friday, Brian McTaggart of MLB.com reports.
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Excelling since return from concussion
2BHouston Astros
June 1, 2025
Matthews (concussion) has gone 11-for-23 with two home runs, three doubles, four walks, 10 RBI and five runs in six games since being activated from Triple-A Sugar Land's 7-day injured list May 24.
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Lands on injured list
2BHouston Astros
Concussion
May 15, 2025
Triple-A Sugar Land placed Matthews on its 7-day injured list Wednesday due to a concussion, Chandler Rome of The Athletic reports.
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Cutting Ks at Triple-A
2BHouston Astros
May 15, 2025
Matthews is slashing .269/.398/.462 with four home runs, eight steals, a 17.3 percent walk rate and a 23.5 percent strikeout rate over his last 23 games with Triple-A Sugar Land.
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Set to make MLB debut
2BHouston Astros
July 10, 2025
Matthews is set to make his MLB debut as the Astros have decided to call him up to their big-league roster Thursday, according to Brian McTaggart of MLB.com.
Analysis
Matthews, who was set to play in the All-Star Futures Game in Atlanta, was slashing .283/.400/.476 with 10 homers, 39 RBIs and 25 steals at Triple-A before the call-up. Matthews was a shortstop coming out of college, but he's been playing at second base lately, and he could move into that role in the bigs as well. Matthews is not on the 40-man roster, so the Astros would have to make room on both the 26-man and 40-man rosters for Friday's series opener against the Rangers.
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