P · 2016
Yordano Ventura
- Age
- 25
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 195 lb
- Number
- #30
- Born
- June 3, 1991 in Samana, Dominican Republic
- MLB debut
- September 17, 2013
- dbWAR
- 3.4 4 season(s)
- PA
- 3
- AVG
- .333
- OBP
- .333
- SLG
- .333
- wRC+
- 77 100 = avg
Yordano Ventura is a pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2016 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 3 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .333, 30.5% higher than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged .333, for an OPS of .667, 9.8% lower than the league mark of .739. He averaged 79.0 mph off the bat and made contact on 50.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 77 wRC+ puts his offence 23% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -0.1 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, 2016.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2016. These four terms sum to +0.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .000 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 66.7% | .292 | -0.1 | 77 | 0.0 | |
| 2015 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 83.3% | .000 | -1.5 | -122 | -0.1 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 32 | 32 | 186.0 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 190 | 92 | 144 | 78 | 4.45 | 4.59 | 1.44 | 7.0 | 3.8 | 106 | 110 | 1.0 | |
| 2015 | 28 | 28 | 163.1 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 154 | 74 | 156 | 58 | 4.08 | 3.57 | 1.30 | 8.6 | 3.2 | 103 | 90 | 2.5 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .292 | 66.7% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 386 | 337 | 84 | 14 | 40 | 68 | .249 | .329 | .427 | .331 | 17.6% |
| vs RHB | 430 | 386 | 106 | 9 | 38 | 76 | .275 | .349 | .404 | .333 | 17.7% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2016. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 79.0 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 79.0 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 100.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 15.0° average
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, 2016.
Situational hitting
How Yordano Ventura hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .333 | .333 | .333 | .292 |
| Bases empty · thin | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .292 |
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, 2016.
Pitch sequencing
What Yordano Ventura 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 2016.
| Sinker | 955 | 96.3 | 2,322 | 37.6% | 11.9% | |
| Curveball | 770 | 83.0 | 1,194 | 46.4% | 34.8% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 707 | 96.2 | 2,378 | 43.7% | 14.4% | |
| Changeup | 565 | 86.1 | 1,528 | 41.6% | 31.4% | |
| Cutter | 50 | 91.4 | 2,335 | 44.0% | 11.1% |
Head to head
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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.