SS · 2025

Ryan Fitzgerald

Minnesota Twins American League CentralSS

Age: 31
B/T: L/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 186 lb
Number: #46

Born: June 17, 1994 in Hinsdale, IL, USA
MLB debut: May 16, 2025
College: Creighton

dbWAR: .3
PA: 53
AVG: .196
OBP: .302
SLG: .457
wRC+: 107

Ryan Fitzgerald is a shortstop for the Minnesota Twins. In 2025 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 9 RBIs, notching 9 hits across 53 plate appearances in 21 games. His batting average was .196, 20.2% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .302 clip and slugged .457, for an OPS of .758, 5.5% higher than the league mark of .719. He averaged 87.8 mph off the bat, hit 35.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.8% of them and made contact on 71.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 107 wRC+ puts his offence 7% above average. That comes to 0.3 dbWAR — +0.7 runs with the bat, +0.1 on the bases, +0.4 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, 2025.

wRC+107

wOBA.330

ISO.261

BB%13.2%

WAR.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2025. These four terms sum to +3.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

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Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2025. 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 LHP	20	18	2	2	2	2	.111	.200	.444	.272	10.0%
vs RHP	33	28	7	2	5	6	.250	.364	.464	.365	18.2%

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2025. 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	2	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%
vs RHB	6	6	2	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.295	0.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2025.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 37 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 10.8%
Exit velocity: 87.8
Max exit velo: 110.1
Hard hit: 35.1%
Sweet spot: 24.3%
Launch angle: 17.1°

Barrel rate10.8%

Exit velocity87.8 mph

Hard hit rate35.1%

Contact rate71.3%

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, 2025.

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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 .245.

Situational hitting

How Ryan Fitzgerald hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	53	—	—	—	—	—	—	.196	.302	.457	.330
Bases empty	33	27	3	1	1	6	6	.111	.273	.222	.245
Runner on first · thin	10	10	4	3	7	0	1	.400	.400	1.300	.690
Runners on · thin	20	19	6	3	8	1	2	.316	.350	.789	.470
RISP · thin	10	9	2	0	1	1	1	.222	.300	.222	.249

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, 2025.

Pitch sequencing

What Ryan Fitzgerald 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 2025.


Slider	45.8%	11	61.8	1,625	54.5%	0.0%
Eephus	45.8%	11	38.6	1,495	18.2%	14.3%

Ryan Fitzgerald'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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

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2025	21	53	9	4	9	1	7	8	.196	.302	.457	.261	.147	13.2%	15.1%	.330	+0.7	107	0.3	—

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

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2025	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.00	3.14	1.00	0.0	0.0	0	75	0.0	—

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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.