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Ryan Cook

Age
31
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 1"
Weight
227 lb
Born
June 30, 1987 in Clovis, CA, United States
MLB debut
July 20, 2011

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dbWAR
2.4
Regular season, 6 season(s)
IP
17.0
ERA
5.29
FIP
5.28
K/9
12.2
FIP−
127
100 = avg

Ryan Cook was a relief pitcher for the Seattle Mariners. In 2018 he struck out 23 batters over 17.0 innings across 19 appearances, going 2-1. His ERA of 5.29 was 27.6% higher than the league average of 4.15. Stripping out defence, his 5.28 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 22.0% of swings (10.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 30.3%. His -0.1 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.

FIP5.28
K/912.2
WHIP1.29
WAR-.1

WAR by season

1.30.4-0.6111213141518

Pitching Regular season

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

Trend
2018SEA19017.021015102375.295.281.2912.23.7128127-0.1
2015BOS/OAK908.202020186718.6910.173.126.27.3472257-0.6
2014OAK54050.0131321950223.423.351.089.04.091900.5
2013OAK71067.1642621967252.542.741.299.03.366711.3
2012OAK71073.16214421780272.092.890.949.83.352721.3
2011AZ1207.2010116787.044.332.488.29.41791100.0

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 Cook's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2013 PostOAKALDS100.20001201127.003.0013.5
2012 PostOAKALDS403.1100430148.101.5010.8
CareerPostseason total · 2 Octobers504.01005502511.251.7511.3

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.

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 LHB25246114.250.280.375.28616.0%
vs RHB514093619.225.360.500.36537.3%

Pitch sequencing

What Ryan Cook 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.

Four-Seam Fastball58.0%18194.32,13555.2%17.6%34.265.889
Slider27.2%8584.72,94756.5%32.6%18.111.483
Sinker9.3%2994.52,07044.8%25.0%4——
Changeup5.4%1788.71,50511.8%10.0%8——
Ryan Cook'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.