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Ryan Pressly

Age: 37
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 207 lb

Born: December 15, 1988 in Dallas, TX, United States
MLB debut: April 4, 2013
Drafted: 2012, round 1
High school: Marcus
Salary, 2025: $14M

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dbWAR: 11.3
IP: 41.1
ERA: 4.35
FIP: 5.05
K/9: 6.1
FIP−: 121

Ryan Pressly was a relief pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2025 he struck out 28 batters over 41.1 innings across 44 appearances, going 2-3. His ERA of 4.35 was 4.7% higher than the league average of 4.16 — 12th of 16 on his team, and 328th of 542 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.05 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 17.4% of swings (8.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.4%. His -0.2 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, 2025 regular season.

FIP5.05

K/96.1

WHIP1.52

WAR-.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2025	CHC	44	41.1	2	3	5	46	20	28	17	4.35	5.05	1.52	6.1	3.7	105	121	-0.2
2024	HOU	59	56.2	2	3	4	58	22	58	18	3.49	3.10	1.34	9.2	2.9	86	76	1.0
2023	HOU	65	65.1	4	5	31	54	26	74	16	3.58	3.36	1.07	10.2	2.2	83	78	1.1
2022	HOU	50	48.1	3	3	33	30	16	65	13	2.98	2.31	0.89	12.1	2.4	75	58	1.2
2021	HOU	64	64.0	5	3	26	49	16	81	13	2.25	2.06	0.97	11.4	1.8	53	48	2.0
2020	HOU	23	21.0	1	3	12	21	8	29	7	3.43	2.81	1.33	12.4	3.0	77	63	0.5
2019	HOU	55	54.1	2	3	3	37	14	72	12	2.32	2.66	0.90	11.9	2.0	51	59	1.5
2018	MIN/HOU	77	71.0	2	1	2	57	20	101	22	2.54	2.47	1.11	12.8	2.8	61	60	1.8
2017	MIN	57	61.1	2	3	0	52	32	61	19	4.70	4.36	1.16	9.0	2.8	108	100	0.4
2016	MIN	72	75.1	6	7	1	79	31	67	23	3.70	3.74	1.35	8.0	2.7	88	89	0.9
2015	MIN	27	27.2	3	2	0	27	9	22	12	2.93	2.84	1.41	7.2	3.9	74	72	0.5
2014	MIN	25	28.1	2	0	0	30	9	14	8	2.86	4.47	1.34	4.4	2.5	76	120	-0.1
2013	MIN	49	76.2	3	3	0	71	33	49	27	3.87	3.67	1.28	5.8	3.2	100	95	0.6

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 Pressly's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	W	L	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2024 Post	HOU	Wild Card	1	0.2	0	1	0	2	3	0	1	2	40.50	4.50	27.0
2023 Post	HOU	Postseason total	5	6.0	1	0	3	2	0	0	2	10	0.00	0.67	15.0
		ALDS	2	2.0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	5	0.00	0.00	22.5
		ALCS	3	4.0	1	0	1	2	0	0	2	5	0.00	1.00	11.3
2022 Post	HOU	Postseason total	10	11.0	0	0	6	4	0	0	3	13	0.00	0.64	10.6
		ALDS	2	2.0	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	2	0.00	1.50	9.0
		ALCS	3	3.1	0	0	3	0	0	0	1	6	0.00	0.30	16.2
		World Series	5	5.2	0	0	2	2	0	0	1	5	0.00	0.53	7.9
2021 Post	HOU	Postseason total	9	9.2	0	0	1	6	1	1	2	14	0.93	0.83	13.0
		ALDS	3	3.0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	4	0.00	1.00	12.0
		ALCS	3	3.0	0	0	1	3	1	1	0	4	3.00	1.00	12.0
		World Series	3	3.2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	0.00	0.55	14.7
2020 Post	HOU	Postseason total	7	7.1	1	0	4	7	2	0	1	8	2.45	1.09	9.8
		Wild Card	1	1.0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0.00	0.00	18.0
		ALDS	3	3.0	0	0	1	4	2	0	1	2	6.00	1.67	6.0
		ALCS	3	3.1	1	0	2	3	0	0	0	4	0.00	0.90	10.8
2019 Post	HOU	Postseason total	10	5.2	1	0	0	12	7	0	3	6	11.12	2.65	9.5
		ALDS	2	1.0	0	0	0	4	2	0	0	0	18.00	4.00	0.0
		ALCS	4	1.2	1	0	0	5	2	0	1	3	10.80	3.60	16.2
		World Series	4	3.0	0	0	0	3	3	0	2	3	9.00	1.67	9.0
2018 Post	HOU	Postseason total	5	5.0	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	7	1.80	0.80	12.6
		ALDS	2	2.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0.00	0.43	11.6
		ALCS	3	2.2	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	4	3.38	1.13	13.5
Career		Postseason total · 7 Octobers	47	45.1	3	1	14	34	14	1	15	60	2.78	1.08	11.9

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.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2025. 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 LHB	94	83	24	3	9	16	.289	.359	.434	.350	17.0%
vs RHB	88	77	22	3	8	12	.286	.368	.468	.367	13.6%

Pitch sequencing

What Ryan Pressly 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.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	36.8%	243	93.4	2,573	49.0%	9.2%	70	.286	.828
Curveball	24.7%	163	81.4	3,240	47.2%	29.4%	31	.355	1.007
Slider	21.2%	140	88.8	2,706	42.1%	18.9%	37	.297	.732
Sinker	11.8%	78	93.4	2,371	26.9%	20.0%	14	—	—
Changeup	5.6%	37	88.7	2,065	13.5%	15.4%	8	—	—

Ryan Pressly'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.