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P · 2018

Tyson Ross

Age
32
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 5"
Weight
254 lb
Born
April 22, 1987 in Berkeley, CA, USA
MLB debut
April 7, 2010

Age shown as of the 2019 season.

dbWAR
4.4
8 season(s)
PA
46
AVG
.195
OBP
.209
SLG
.268
wRC+
23
100 = avg

Tyson Ross is a pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2018 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 8 hits across 46 plate appearances in 27 games. His batting average was .195, 21.3% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .209 clip and slugged .268, for an OPS of .478, 34.4% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 86.5 mph off the bat, hit 36.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 9.1% of them and made contact on 71.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 23 wRC+ puts his offence 77% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -4.1 runs with the bat, +0.2 on the bases, -0.1 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, 2018.

wRC+23
wOBA.207
ISO.073
BB%2.2%
WAR-.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -2.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-4.1Baserunning+0.2Position-0.1Replacement+1.5
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.0-0.1-0.3151618

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
201827468141116.195.209.268.073.2802.2%34.8%.207-4.123-0.3
201611000001.000.000.000.0000.0%100.0%.000-0.3-117-0.0
2015326814160219.250.283.357.107.3512.9%27.9%.281-1.9760.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
20197735.1150412425186.115.991.676.44.6136133-0.2
20183123149.289013269122624.154.391.307.33.71001060.9
2017121049.0330534236377.716.181.846.66.8177142-0.5
2016115.1010975111.812.961.888.41.7282710.1
20153333196.01012017271212843.262.981.319.73.982754.3

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2018. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP15145114.357.400.571.41726.7%
vs RHP312730012.111.107.111.09438.7%
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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB3322898593854.294.381.467.37316.3%
vs RHB3022674782468.176.250.315.24622.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 22 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
9.1%
2 barrels
Exit velocity
86.5
mph average
Max exit velo
103.2
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
36.4%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
36.4%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
-3.5°
average
Barrel rate9.1%
Exit velocity86.5 mph
Hard hit rate36.4%
Contact rate71.8%

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, 2018.

1 AB1 AB6 AB6 AB6 AB0 AB7 AB4 AB
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 .247.

Situational hitting

How Tyson Ross 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations46.195.209.268.207
Bases empty2625511110.200.231.320.241
Runner on first · thin8600003.000.000.000.000
Runners on · thin201630306.188.176.188.155
RISP · thin121030303.300.273.300.240

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, 2018.

Pitch sequencing

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

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Four-seamSliderCutterSinkerChangeup

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2018.

Four-Seam Fastball43.4%1,08490.82,51242.3%14.4%
Slider41.4%1,03484.62,66347.5%30.3%
Cutter7.0%17689.42,54842.6%16.9%
Sinker6.8%17191.02,48933.9%4.8%
Changeup1.3%3286.62,14728.1%36.4%
Tyson Ross'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.

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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.