DH · 2023
Darin Ruf
- Age
- 37
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 232 lb
- Number
- #33
- Born
- July 28, 1986 in Omaha, NE, USA
- MLB debut
- September 14, 2012
- dbWAR
- 2.7 8 season(s)
- PA
- 57
- AVG
- .224
- OBP
- .333
- SLG
- .286
- wRC+
- 78 100 = avg
Darin Ruf is a designated hitter for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2023 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 11 hits across 57 plate appearances in 20 games. His batting average was .224, 9.6% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged .286, for an OPS of .619, 15.7% lower than the league mark of .734. He averaged 94.0 mph off the bat, hit 51.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 12.1% of them and made contact on 73.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 78 wRC+ puts his offence 22% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.5 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, -1.6 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, 2023.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2023. These four terms sum to -1.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 20 | 57 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 16 | .224 | .333 | .286 | .061 | .333 | 14.0% | 28.1% | .290 | -1.5 | 78 | -0.1 | |
| 2022 | 118 | 388 | 68 | 11 | 45 | 2 | 45 | 105 | .204 | .307 | .338 | .135 | .258 | 11.6% | 27.1% | .294 | -5.5 | 88 | -0.1 | |
| 2021 | 117 | 312 | 71 | 16 | 43 | 2 | 46 | 87 | .271 | .385 | .519 | .248 | .344 | 14.7% | 27.9% | .389 | +18.7 | 151 | 2.3 | |
| 2020 | 40 | 100 | 24 | 5 | 18 | 1 | 13 | 23 | .276 | .370 | .517 | .241 | .322 | 13.0% | 23.0% | .381 | +5.1 | 139 | 0.6 | |
| 2016 | 42 | 89 | 17 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 25 | .205 | .236 | .337 | .133 | .246 | 4.5% | 28.1% | .248 | -5.2 | 53 | -0.4 | |
| 2015 | 103 | 297 | 63 | 12 | 39 | 1 | 21 | 69 | .235 | .300 | .414 | .179 | .268 | 7.1% | 23.2% | .314 | -0.6 | 97 | 0.4 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 3.11 | 0.50 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 78 | 0.0 | |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 18.00 | 3.17 | 3.00 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 422 | 74 | 0.0 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 40 | 33 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 10 | .242 | .375 | .303 | .320 | 25.0% |
| vs RHP | 17 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | .188 | .235 | .250 | .220 | 35.3% |
No pitching splits recorded for 2023.
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2023.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 33 tracked batted balls in 2023. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 12.1% 4 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 94.0 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 108.0 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 51.5% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 39.4% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 7.7° 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, 2023.
Situational hitting
How Darin Ruf 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 | 57 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .224 | .333 | .286 | .290 |
| Bases empty | 32 | 29 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | .241 | .313 | .276 | .272 |
| Runner on first · thin | 17 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | .214 | .353 | .357 | .325 |
| Runners on | 25 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | .200 | .360 | .300 | .313 |
| RISP · thin | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | .167 | .375 | .167 | .287 |
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, 2023.
Head to head
Put Darin Ruf beside up to three others.
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.