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Ryan Theriot

San Francisco Giants National League West2B

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 185 lb
Number: #2

Born: December 7, 1979 in Baton Rouge, LA, United States
MLB debut: September 13, 2005

dbWAR: 9.4
PA: 384
AVG: .270
OBP: .316
SLG: .321
wRC+: 83

Ryan Theriot was a second baseman for the San Francisco Giants. In 2012 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 28 RBIs, notching 95 hits across 384 plate appearances in 104 games. His batting average was .270, 6.0% higher than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .316 clip and slugged .321, for an OPS of .637, 12.1% lower than the league mark of .724 — 11th of 13 on his team, and 352nd of 459 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 88.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 83 wRC+ puts his offence 17% below average. That comes to 0.5 dbWAR — -10.2 runs with the bat, +1.7 for the ballpark, +0.2 on the bases, -0.1 on double plays, +2.4 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2012 regular season.

wRC+83

wOBA.285

ISO.051

BB%6.3%

WAR.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2012. These terms sum to +4.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2012	SF	104	384	95	0	28	13	24	47	.270	.316	.321	.051	.308	6.3%	12.2%	.285	-10.2	83	0.5
2011	STL	124	483	120	1	47	4	29	41	.271	.321	.342	.070	.296	6.0%	8.5%	.300	-7.6	89	0.8
2010	CHC/LAD	150	640	158	2	29	20	41	74	.270	.321	.312	.043	.305	6.4%	11.6%	.289	-18.5	71	0.3
2009	CHC	153	677	171	7	54	21	51	93	.284	.343	.369	.085	.323	7.5%	13.7%	.322	-5.9	89	2.2
2008	CHC	149	661	178	1	38	22	73	58	.307	.387	.359	.052	.339	11.0%	8.8%	.345	+6.3	106	3.0
2007	CHC	147	597	143	3	45	28	49	50	.266	.326	.346	.080	.287	8.2%	8.4%	.306	-14.8	76	1.2
2006	CHC	52	159	44	3	16	13	17	18	.328	.412	.522	.194	.363	10.7%	11.3%	.411	+9.9	146	1.6
2005	CHC	8	14	2	0	0	0	1	2	.154	.214	.231	.077	.182	7.1%	14.3%	.206	-1.4	15	-0.1

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 batting

Postseason Ryan Theriot's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2012 Post	SF	Postseason total	7	11	10	1	3	0	3	1	2	0	.300	.364	.300	.664
		NLDS	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	3	4	3	0	2	0	3	1	0	0	.667	.750	.667	1.417
		World Series	2	5	5	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	.200	.200	.200	.400
2011 Post	STL	Postseason total	12	35	33	3	8	2	3	1	5	1	.242	.265	.303	.568
		NLDS	3	10	10	2	6	2	1	0	1	1	.600	.600	.800	1.400
		NLCS	4	10	10	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	.100	.100	.100	.200
		World Series	5	15	13	1	1	0	2	1	3	0	.077	.143	.077	.220
2008 Post	CHC	NLDS	3	12	11	0	3	0	0	1	3	0	.273	.333	.273	.606
2007 Post	CHC	NLDS	3	13	12	0	3	0	1	1	1	1	.250	.308	.250	.558
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	25	71	66	4	17	2	7	4	11	2	.258	.300	.288	.588

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 he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2012. 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 LHP	135	125	34	0	8	15	.272	.319	.344	.293	11.1%
vs RHP	249	227	61	0	16	32	.269	.314	.308	.281	12.9%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2012.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2012.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .254.

Situational hitting

How Ryan Theriot hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	384	—	—	—	—	—	—	.270	.316	.321	.285
Bases empty	218	203	55	0	0	14	27	.271	.321	.330	.293
Runner on first	78	73	17	0	6	3	14	.233	.263	.301	.252
Runners on	166	149	40	0	28	10	20	.268	.309	.309	.274
RISP	88	76	23	0	22	7	6	.303	.349	.316	.294

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2012.

Not in the 2012 data: exit velocity and launch angle, first recorded in 2015. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.

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Nearest 2012 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Jean SeguraMIL

wRC+: 70
HR: 0
AVG: .258
WAR: 0.5

Very close

Chris GetzKC

wRC+: 84
HR: 0
AVG: .275
WAR: 0.6

Maicer IzturisLAA

wRC+: 84
HR: 2
AVG: .256
WAR: 0.6

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wRC+: 88
HR: 5
AVG: .264
WAR: 1.8

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.