CF · 2024
Ryan McKenna
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 10"
- Weight
- 195 lb
- Number
- #65
- Born
- February 14, 1997 in Grants Pass, OR, USA
- MLB debut
- April 5, 2021
- Drafted
- 2015, round 4
- High school
- Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Salary, 2024
- $800,000
- dbWAR
- .1 1 season(s)
- PA
- 15
- AVG
- .214
- OBP
- .267
- SLG
- .643
- wRC+
- 148 100 = avg
Ryan McKenna is a center fielder for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2024 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 3 hits across 15 plate appearances in 9 games. His batting average was .214, 11.9% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .267 clip and slugged .643, for an OPS of .910, 27.9% higher than the league mark of .711. He averaged 84.5 mph off the bat, hit 44.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 22.2% of them and made contact on 81.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 148 wRC+ puts his offence 48% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.8 runs with the bat, -0.2 on the bases, -0.1 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, 2024.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2024. These four terms sum to +1.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 12 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | .167 | .167 | .667 | .339 | 33.3% |
| vs RHP | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .500 | .667 | .500 | .533 | 33.3% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2024.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 9 tracked batted balls in 2024. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 22.2% 2 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 84.5 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 108.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 44.4% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 22.2% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 27.3° 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, 2024.
Situational hitting
How Ryan McKenna 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 | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .214 | .267 | .643 | .378 |
| Bases empty · thin | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .375 | .444 | 1.125 | .630 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .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, 2024.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | .214 | .267 | .643 | .429 | .143 | 6.7% | 33.3% | .378 | +0.8 | 148 | 0.1 | — |
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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.