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Yordano Ventura

Kansas City Royals American League Central

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: 4.2
IP: 186.0
ERA: 4.45
FIP: 4.59
K/9: 7.0
FIP−: 110

Yordano Ventura was a starting pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2016 he struck out 144 batters over 186.0 innings across 32 appearances, 32 of them starts, going 11-12. His ERA of 4.45 was 6.3% higher than the league average of 4.19 — 11th of 15 on his team, and 304th of 512 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.59 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 22.1% of swings (9.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.6%. His 1.6 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, 2016.

FIP4.59

K/97.0

WHIP1.44

WAR1.6

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2016	KC	32	32	186.0	11	12	0	190	92	144	78	4.45	4.59	1.44	7.0	3.8	106	110	1.6
2015	KC	28	28	163.1	13	8	0	154	74	156	58	4.08	3.57	1.30	8.6	3.2	103	90	2.7

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2016	KC	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	KC	3	6	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	83.3%	.000	-1.5	-122	-0.1

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2016. 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	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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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2016.

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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 .255.

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, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Sinker	31.3%	955	96.3	2,322	37.6%	11.9%	247	.340	.947
Curveball	25.3%	770	83.0	1,194	46.4%	34.8%	203	.172	.446
Four-Seam Fastball	23.2%	707	96.2	2,378	43.7%	14.4%	128	.289	.922
Changeup	18.5%	565	86.1	1,528	41.6%	31.4%	139	.237	.673
Cutter	1.6%	50	91.4	2,335	44.0%	11.1%	7	—	—

Yordano Ventura'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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Nearest 2016 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Colin ReaSD

ERA: 4.82
FIP: 4.63
SO: 80
WAR: 0.7

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ERA: 4.33
FIP: 4.60
SO: 147
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Christian FriedrichSD

ERA: 4.80
FIP: 4.16
SO: 100
WAR: 1.6

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Félix HernándezSEA

ERA: 3.82
FIP: 4.63
SO: 122
WAR: 1.0

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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.