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Brendan Ryan

Los Angeles Angels American League WestSS

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #13

Born: March 26, 1982 in Los Angeles, CA, United States
MLB debut: June 2, 2007

dbWAR: 1.5
PA: 14
AVG: .077
OBP: .077
SLG: .077
wRC+: -74

Brendan Ryan was 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 for the ballpark, -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 regular season.

wRC+-74

wOBA.067

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2016. These terms sum to -2.2 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.


2016	LAA	7	14	1	0	0	0	0	7	.077	.077	.077	.000	.167	0.0%	50.0%	.067	-2.8	-74	-0.2
2015	NYY	38	103	22	0	8	0	5	29	.229	.275	.333	.104	.328	4.9%	28.2%	.270	-3.8	67	0.0
2014	NYY	40	124	19	0	8	0	4	30	.167	.211	.202	.035	.221	3.2%	24.2%	.192	-11.4	14	-0.9
2013	SEA/NYY	103	349	63	4	22	4	23	73	.197	.255	.273	.075	.243	6.6%	20.9%	.241	-20.4	47	-0.9
2012	SEA	136	470	79	3	31	11	44	98	.194	.277	.278	.084	.244	9.4%	20.9%	.255	-23.6	62	-0.1
2011	SEA	123	494	108	3	39	13	34	87	.248	.313	.326	.078	.299	6.9%	17.6%	.292	-10.8	84	1.3
2010	STL	135	486	98	2	36	11	33	60	.223	.279	.294	.071	.253	6.8%	12.3%	.258	-25.9	55	-0.4
2009	STL	123	429	114	3	37	14	24	56	.292	.340	.400	.108	.332	5.6%	13.1%	.328	-1.7	99	1.7
2008	STL	73	218	48	0	10	7	16	31	.244	.307	.289	.046	.289	7.3%	14.2%	.278	-9.9	63	-0.0
2007	STL	66	199	52	4	12	7	15	19	.289	.347	.406	.117	.306	7.5%	9.5%	.339	+0.5	104	0.9

Pitching Regular season

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

																				Trend
2015	NYY	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	—

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 Brendan Ryan'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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2009 Post	STL	NLDS	3	12	12	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	.083	.083	.167	.250

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, 2016. 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	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%
Exit velocity: 73.8
Max exit velo: 102.0
Hard hit: 20.0%
Sweet spot: 20.0%
Launch angle: -7.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity73.8 mph

Hard hit rate20.0%

Contact rate65.5%

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.

Below averageLeague averageAbove average

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 .255.

Situational hitting

How Brendan Ryan 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	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.

Pitch arsenal

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


Curveball	75.0%	21	76.4	1,641	38.1%	20.0%	5	—	—

Brendan Ryan'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.