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Kyle Ryan

Age: 30
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #56

Born: September 25, 1991 in Auburndale, FL, United States
MLB debut: August 30, 2014

dbWAR: .5
IP: 13.1
ERA: 6.75
FIP: 6.25
K/9: 5.4
FIP−: 146

Kyle Ryan was a relief pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2021 he struck out 8 batters over 13.1 innings across 13 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 6.75 was 58.2% higher than the league average of 4.27. Stripping out defence, his 6.25 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 17.0% of swings (6.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.9%. His -0.2 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, 2021.

FIP6.25

K/95.4

WHIP1.72

WAR-.2

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	CHC	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	CHC	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	CHC	73	0	61.0	4	2	0	55	24	58	29	3.54	3.85	1.38	8.6	4.3	79	86	0.8
2017	DET	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	DET	56	0	55.2	4	2	0	48	19	35	15	3.07	3.33	1.13	5.7	2.4	73	79	0.9
2015	DET	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

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2021	CHC	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-118	-0.0
2019	CHC	3	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.000	.000	33.3%	33.3%	.237	-0.2	43	0.0

Platoon splits

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

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	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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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.

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

Season


Sinker	40.0%	90	88.2	1,715	31.1%	12.5%	26	.308	.879
Four-Seam Fastball	26.2%	59	88.7	1,944	40.7%	29.4%	14	—	—
Cutter	22.7%	51	86.6	1,993	41.2%	5.6%	8	—	—
Curveball	11.1%	25	81.4	2,258	44.0%	30.8%	6	—	—

Kyle Ryan'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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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.