
P · 2021
Kyle Ryan
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 5"
- Weight
- 215 lb
- Number
- #56
- Born
- September 25, 1991 in Auburndale, FL, USA
- MLB debut
- August 30, 2014
- dbWAR
- .3 8 season(s)
- PA
- 2
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -118 100 = avg
Kyle Ryan is a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 2 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 75.6 mph off the bat and made contact on 75.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -118 wRC+ puts his offence 218% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.5 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.5 | -118 | -0.0 | |
| 2019 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 33.3% | 33.3% | .237 | -0.2 | 43 | -0.0 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 13 | 0 | 13.1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 6.75 | 6.25 | 1.72 | 5.4 | 4.0 | 158 | 146 | -0.2 | |
| 2020 | 18 | 0 | 15.2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 5.17 | 7.09 | 1.40 | 6.3 | 3.4 | 116 | 159 | -0.4 | |
| 2019 | 73 | 0 | 61.0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 55 | 24 | 58 | 29 | 3.54 | 3.85 | 1.38 | 8.6 | 4.3 | 79 | 86 | 0.7 | |
| 2017 | 8 | 0 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 7.94 | 6.51 | 2.82 | 1.6 | 11.1 | 182 | 149 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 56 | 0 | 55.2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 48 | 19 | 35 | 15 | 3.07 | 3.33 | 1.13 | 5.7 | 2.4 | 73 | 79 | 0.8 | |
| 2015 | 16 | 6 | 56.1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 60 | 28 | 30 | 20 | 4.47 | 5.26 | 1.42 | 4.8 | 3.2 | 113 | 133 | -0.5 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 29 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 3 | .240 | .345 | .400 | .332 | 10.3% |
| vs RHB | 33 | 29 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 5 | .379 | .406 | .724 | .454 | 15.2% |
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% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 75.6 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 77.4 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 30.0° 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, 2021.
Situational hitting
How Kyle Ryan 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 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .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 Kyle Ryan 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.
| Sinker | 90 | 88.2 | 1,715 | 31.1% | 12.5% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 59 | 88.7 | 1,944 | 40.7% | 29.4% | |
| Cutter | 51 | 86.6 | 1,993 | 41.2% | 5.6% | |
| Curveball | 25 | 81.4 | 2,258 | 44.0% | 30.8% |
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.