SS · 2016
Brendan Ryan
- Age
- 34
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Number
- #13
- Born
- March 26, 1982 in Los Angeles, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- June 2, 2007
- dbWAR
- -.2 3 season(s)
- PA
- 14
- AVG
- .077
- OBP
- .077
- SLG
- .077
- wRC+
- -74 100 = avg
Brendan Ryan is a shortstop for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 14 plate appearances in 7 games. His batting average was .077, 69.9% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .077 clip and slugged .077, for an OPS of .154, 79.2% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 73.8 mph off the bat, hit 20.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 65.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -74 wRC+ puts his offence 174% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.8 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.2 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, 2016.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to -2.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 7 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .077 | .077 | .077 | .000 | .167 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .067 | -2.8 | -74 | -0.2 | |
| 2015 | 38 | 103 | 22 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 29 | .229 | .275 | .333 | .104 | .328 | 4.9% | 28.2% | .270 | -3.8 | 67 | -0.0 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 3.13 | 1.00 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 79 | 0.0 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 60.0% |
| vs RHP | 9 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .097 | 44.4% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 5 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 73.8 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 102.0 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 20.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 20.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -7.0° average
A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.
Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2016.
Situational hitting
How Brendan Ryan hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .077 | .077 | .077 | .067 |
| Bases empty · thin | 8 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .110 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2016.
Head to head
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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.