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Ryan Madson

Washington Nationals National League East

Age: 38
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 234 lb
Number: #63

Born: August 28, 1980 in Long Beach, CA, United States
MLB debut: September 27, 2003

dbWAR: 11.5
IP: 52.2
ERA: 5.47
FIP: 3.98
K/9: 9.2
FIP−: 96

Ryan Madson was a relief pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2018 he struck out 54 batters over 52.2 innings across 58 appearances, going 2-5. His ERA of 5.47 was 31.8% higher than the league average of 4.15 — 13th of 17 on his team, and 434th of 530 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.98 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 28.3% of swings (14.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 23.4%. His 0.5 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2018 regular season.

FIP3.98

K/99.2

WHIP1.41

WAR.5

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2018; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2018	WSH/LAD	58	0	52.2	2	5	4	58	32	54	16	5.47	3.98	1.41	9.2	2.7	132	96	0.5
2017	OAK/WSH	60	0	59.0	5	4	2	38	12	67	9	1.83	1.99	0.80	10.2	1.4	42	46	2.0
2016	OAK	63	0	64.2	6	7	30	63	26	49	20	3.62	4.06	1.28	6.8	2.8	86	97	0.4
2015	KC	68	0	63.1	1	2	3	47	15	58	14	2.13	3.09	0.96	8.2	2.0	54	78	1.0
2011	PHI	62	0	60.2	4	2	32	54	16	62	16	2.37	2.25	1.15	9.2	2.4	60	57	1.6
2010	PHI	55	0	53.0	6	2	5	42	15	64	13	2.55	2.61	1.04	10.9	2.2	62	64	1.2
2009	PHI	79	0	77.1	5	5	10	73	28	78	22	3.26	3.23	1.23	9.1	2.6	75	75	1.4
2008	PHI	76	0	82.2	4	2	1	79	28	67	23	3.05	3.33	1.23	7.3	2.5	71	77	1.4
2007	PHI	38	0	56.0	2	2	1	48	19	43	23	3.05	4.20	1.27	6.9	3.7	68	94	0.5
2006	PHI	50	17	134.1	11	9	2	176	85	99	50	5.69	4.95	1.68	6.6	3.3	126	109	0.5
2005	PHI	78	0	87.0	6	5	0	84	40	79	25	4.14	3.92	1.25	8.2	2.6	96	91	1.0

Batting Regular season


2016	OAK	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-123	-0.0
2010	PHI	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-125	-0.0
2008	PHI	2	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-126	-0.0
2007	PHI	4	4	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.1	-126	-0.1
2006	PHI	18	38	6	2	1	13	.182	.206	.212	.030	.300	2.6%	34.2%	.190	-4.7	2	0.1
2005	PHI	8	8	0	0	1	0	.000	.143	.000	.000	.000	12.5%	0.0%	.101	-1.5	-54	-0.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Ryan Madson's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	W	L	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2018 Post	LAD	Postseason total	11	8.2	2	0	0	9	2	1	3	8	2.08	1.38	8.3
		NLDS	2	1.1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.75	6.8
		NLCS	5	5.0	1	0	0	5	1	0	1	5	1.80	1.20	9.0
		World Series	4	2.1	0	0	0	3	1	1	2	2	3.86	2.14	7.7
2017 Post	WSH	NLDS	4	4.0	0	0	0	3	1	0	2	4	2.25	1.25	9.0
2015 Post	KC	Postseason total	9	8.1	2	0	0	12	5	4	3	15	5.40	1.80	16.2
		ALDS	3	3.0	1	0	0	6	3	3	0	7	9.00	2.00	21.0
		ALCS	3	2.1	0	0	0	4	2	1	2	3	7.71	2.57	11.6
		World Series	3	3.0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	5	0.00	1.00	15.0
2011 Post	PHI	NLDS	4	4.1	0	0	1	4	1	0	0	6	2.08	0.92	12.5
2010 Post	PHI	Postseason total	6	7.2	0	1	0	5	1	1	3	11	1.17	1.04	12.9
		NLDS	1	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.00	1.00	9.0
		NLCS	5	6.2	0	1	0	4	1	1	3	10	1.35	1.05	13.5
2009 Post	PHI	Postseason total	12	10.1	1	0	1	14	4	0	6	14	3.48	1.94	12.2
		NLDS	3	2.2	1	0	0	2	1	0	1	4	3.38	1.13	13.5
		NLCS	4	3.1	0	0	0	6	2	0	3	4	5.40	2.70	10.8
		World Series	5	4.1	0	0	1	6	1	0	2	6	2.08	1.85	12.5
2008 Post	PHI	Postseason total	11	12.2	1	0	0	10	3	1	1	12	2.13	0.87	8.5
		NLDS	3	4.0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	2	2.25	0.75	4.5
		NLCS	4	5.0	1	0	0	4	0	0	1	4	0.00	1.00	7.2
		World Series	4	3.2	0	0	0	3	2	1	0	6	4.91	0.82	14.7
2005–2018		Postseason total · 7 Octobers	57	56.0	6	1	2	57	17	7	18	70	2.73	1.34	11.3

Postseason batting

Postseason Ryan Madson's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2018 Post	LAD	NLCS	1	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2011 Post	PHI	NLDS	1	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005–2018		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	2	2	2	2	.000	.000	.000	.000

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2018. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	107	90	26	3	12	23	.289	.374	.433	.350	21.5%
vs RHB	124	116	32	4	4	31	.276	.309	.422	.314	25.0%

Pitch sequencing

What Ryan Madson throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	40.8%	340	95.9	2,251	49.4%	21.2%	85	.259	.723
Changeup	21.8%	182	84.8	1,934	50.0%	46.2%	43	.093	.312
Sinker	21.5%	179	95.5	2,076	48.6%	23.7%	50	.400	1.015
Curveball	12.6%	105	83.0	2,291	37.1%	26.3%	24	.417	1.148
Cutter	3.2%	27	93.5	2,210	48.1%	27.3%	4	—	—

Ryan Madson's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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How these are computed

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.