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Jarrod Dyson

Kansas City Royals American League CentralCF

Age: 37
B/T: L/R
Height: 5' 9"
Weight: 165 lb
Number: #1

Born: August 15, 1984 in McComb, MS, United States
MLB debut: September 7, 2010

dbWAR: 6.0
PA: 149
AVG: .207
OBP: .260
SLG: .289
wRC+: 48

Jarrod Dyson was a center fielder for the Kansas City Royals. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 10 RBIs, notching 28 hits across 149 plate appearances in 74 games. His batting average was .207, 14.9% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .260 clip and slugged .289, for an OPS of .549, 24.6% lower than the league mark of .728 — the worst on his team, and 438th of 463 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 78.6 mph off the bat, hit 27.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 0.9% of them and made contact on 75.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 48 wRC+ puts his offence 52% below average. That comes to -0.5 dbWAR — -8.9 runs with the bat, -0.4 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, +1.1 on double plays, -0.4 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, 2021 regular season.

wRC+48

wOBA.246

ISO.081

BB%6.7%

WAR-.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These terms sum to -4.6 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.


2021	KC/TOR	74	149	28	0	10	10	10	33	.207	.260	.289	.081	.272	6.7%	22.1%	.246	-8.9	48	-0.5
2020	PIT/CWS	25	66	11	0	5	6	4	11	.180	.231	.180	.000	.220	6.1%	16.7%	.194	-7.2	13	-0.4
2019	AZ	122	452	92	7	27	30	47	86	.230	.313	.320	.090	.275	10.4%	19.0%	.283	-15.1	74	0.5
2018	AZ	66	237	39	2	12	16	27	34	.189	.282	.257	.068	.216	11.4%	14.3%	.248	-13.5	51	-0.5
2017	SEA	106	390	87	5	30	28	28	55	.251	.324	.350	.098	.285	7.2%	14.1%	.299	-8.3	85	0.8
2016	KC	98	337	83	1	25	30	26	39	.278	.340	.388	.110	.315	7.7%	11.6%	.319	-0.7	94	1.3
2015	KC	81	225	50	2	18	26	14	37	.250	.311	.380	.130	.296	6.2%	16.4%	.306	-1.9	92	0.9
2014	KC	107	290	70	1	24	36	22	52	.269	.324	.327	.058	.330	7.6%	17.9%	.297	-3.6	88	1.2
2013	KC	79	239	55	2	17	34	21	45	.258	.326	.366	.108	.317	8.8%	18.8%	.311	-1.2	93	1.3
2012	KC	97	330	76	0	9	30	30	56	.260	.328	.322	.062	.318	9.1%	17.0%	.293	-6.7	81	0.8
2011	KC	22	53	9	0	3	11	7	14	.205	.308	.227	.023	.290	13.2%	26.4%	.258	-2.6	57	0.1
2010	KC	17	65	12	1	5	9	6	16	.211	.286	.404	.193	.275	9.2%	24.6%	.309	-0.9	88	0.3

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 Jarrod Dyson'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	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2020 Post	CWS	Wild Card	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2015 Post	KC	Postseason total	5	4	4	1	0	0	2	3	.000	.000	.000	.000
		ALDS	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
		World Series	3	3	3	1	0	0	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2014 Post	KC	Postseason total	12	19	16	2	2	2	4	1	.125	.222	.125	.347
		Wild Card	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	—	—	—	—
		ALDS	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		ALCS	4	5	4	1	0	1	2	0	.000	.200	.000	.200
		World Series	5	11	10	0	2	1	2	0	.200	.273	.200	.473
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	18	24	21	3	2	2	7	4	.095	.174	.095	.269

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, 2021. 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	30	28	5	0	1	11	.179	.207	.286	.214	36.7%
vs RHP	119	107	23	0	9	22	.215	.274	.290	.253	18.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 106 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.9%
Exit velocity: 78.6
Max exit velo: 105.2
Hard hit: 27.4%
Sweet spot: 32.1%
Launch angle: 1.4°

Barrel rate0.9%

Exit velocity78.6 mph

Hard hit rate27.4%

Contact rate75.4%

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, 2021.

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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Jarrod Dyson 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	149	—	—	—	—	—	—	.207	.260	.289	.246
Bases empty	90	83	17	0	0	7	20	.205	.267	.301	.255
Runner on first · thin	24	21	4	0	0	1	5	.190	.227	.238	.209
Runners on	59	52	11	0	10	3	13	.212	.250	.269	.231
RISP	35	31	7	0	10	2	8	.226	.265	.290	.245

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, 2021.

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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.