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Ryan Johnson

Age: 24
B/T: S/R
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #32

Born: August 5, 2002 in Dallas, TX, United States
MLB debut: March 27, 2025
Drafted: 2024, round 2C
College: Dallas Baptist
High school: Home Schooled

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dbWAR: -.4
IP: 100.0
ERA: 5.04
FIP: 5.33
K/9: 7.1
FIP−: 128

Ryan Johnson is a starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2026 he struck out 79 batters over 100.0 innings across 22 appearances, 19 of them starts, going 5-9. His ERA of 5.04 was 20.5% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 15th of 22 on his team, and 407th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.33 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 23.0% of swings (10.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.1%. His -0.3 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, 2026 regular season.

FIP5.33

K/97.1

WHIP1.39

WAR-.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

																				Trend
2026	LAA	22	19	100.0	5	9	0	96	56	79	43	5.04	5.33	1.39	7.1	3.9	121	128	-0.3
2025	LAA	14	0	14.2	1	1	1	24	12	16	5	7.36	5.52	1.98	9.8	3.1	177	133	-0.1

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2026. 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	273	239	61	11	31	47	.255	.344	.431	.344	17.2%
vs RHB	165	145	35	7	12	32	.241	.311	.414	.319	19.4%

Pitch sequencing

What Ryan Johnson 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


Cutter	38.7%	666	89.7	2,493	52.7%	22.7%	150	.200	.634
Sweeper	23.5%	405	80.9	2,428	50.1%	28.8%	91	.286	.834
Splitter	20.6%	354	84.6	1,877	35.3%	32.1%	72	.181	.474
Sinker	17.0%	292	92.4	2,237	35.3%	3.2%	71	.380	1.175

Ryan Johnson'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 2026 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Shane BieberTOR

ERA: 4.53
FIP: 5.15
SO: 44
WAR: 0.1

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Merrill KellyAZ

ERA: 4.94
FIP: 5.33
SO: 113
WAR: -0.2

Very close

Nick LodoloCIN

ERA: 4.97
FIP: 5.71
SO: 83
WAR: -0.7

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Max ScherzerTOR

ERA: 5.74
FIP: 5.11
SO: 68
WAR: 0.1

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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.