P · 2021

Hyun Jin Ryu

Age: 36
B/T: R/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 250 lb

Born: March 25, 1987 in Incheon, Republic of Korea
MLB debut: April 2, 2013

Age shown as of the 2023 season.

dbWAR: 10.2
PA: 4
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -116

Hyun Jin Ryu is a pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 4 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 79.5 mph off the bat and made contact on 57.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -116 wRC+ puts his offence 216% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.1 runs with the bat, +0.0 on the bases, +0.0 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.

wRC+-116

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

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WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	2	4	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.1	-116	-0.1
2019	28	67	8	1	3	4	23	.157	.218	.235	.078	.259	6.0%	34.3%	.204	-6.8	20	-0.4
2018	15	30	7	0	2	2	13	.269	.321	.308	.038	.538	6.7%	43.3%	.284	-0.8	80	0.0
2017	21	38	4	0	0	3	18	.133	.235	.167	.033	.333	7.9%	47.4%	.199	-4.0	14	-0.3
2016	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-124	-0.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2023	11	11	52.0	3	3	0	53	20	38	14	3.46	4.91	1.29	6.6	2.4	80	113	0.2
2022	6	6	27.0	2	0	0	32	17	16	4	5.67	4.78	1.33	5.3	1.3	143	120	0.0
2021	31	31	169.0	14	10	0	170	82	143	37	4.37	4.02	1.22	7.6	2.0	102	94	2.1
2020	12	12	67.0	5	2	0	60	20	72	17	2.69	3.01	1.15	9.7	2.3	60	68	1.7
2019	29	29	182.2	14	5	0	160	47	163	24	2.32	3.10	1.01	8.0	1.2	51	69	4.4
2018	15	15	82.1	7	3	0	68	18	89	15	1.97	3.00	1.01	9.7	1.6	47	72	1.9
2017	25	24	126.2	5	9	1	128	53	116	45	3.77	4.74	1.37	8.2	3.2	86	109	0.7
2016	1	1	4.2	0	1	0	8	6	4	2	11.57	5.50	2.14	7.7	3.9	276	131	-0.0

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	2	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	100.0%
vs RHP	2	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 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 LHB	150	141	36	2	8	30	.255	.295	.390	.298	20.0%
vs RHB	551	517	134	22	29	113	.259	.299	.447	.319	20.5%

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 2 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 79.5
Max exit velo: 81.3
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 100.0%
Launch angle: 27.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity79.5 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate57.1%

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.

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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 Hyun Jin Ryu 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	4	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runner on first · thin	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	2	2	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, 2021.

Pitch sequencing

What Hyun Jin Ryu 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, and how often it misses in 2021.


Four-Seam Fastball	35.2%	947	89.8	1,946	51.1%	18.6%
Cutter	25.4%	684	86.3	1,996	43.0%	19.3%
Changeup	25.3%	680	79.9	1,510	44.1%	25.2%
Curveball	12.3%	331	73.8	2,510	48.6%	35.8%
Sinker	1.4%	37	89.8	1,932	59.5%	14.3%
Slider	0.4%	10	79.6	2,104	30.0%	20.0%

Hyun Jin Ryu'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.