2026 postseason · rankings

2026 MLB Postseason Pitching Leaders

28 players from 12 clubs qualified, ranked by ERA. October is short and uneven — one club plays two games, another nineteen — so the qualifier is 1.0 innings pitched per game the player's own club played, and never fewer than 5. None of it counts toward the regular-season leaders.

GamesRegular season Postseason

TableBatting Pitching

RoleLeaguePool

Who

Born in

28 of 28 qualifiedDownload Parquet

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1	Aaron Ashby	United States	28	World Series	9	0	18.0	1	0	3	2	20	3	0.00	0.44	10.0	1.5
2	Paul Blackburn	United States	33	Division Series	4	0	6.0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.00	0.33	0.0	1.5
3	Robert Gasser	United States	27	World Series	3	3	15.0	1	0	0	0	9	3	0.60	0.67	5.4	1.8
4	Michael King	United States	31	Division Series	3	2	14.0	1	0	1	0	15	5	0.64	0.71	9.6	3.2
5	Hagen Smith	United States	23	Division Series	4	3	7.0	0	0	0	0	6	8	1.29	1.57	7.7	10.3
6	Tyler Mahle	United States	32	Division Series	2	2	13.1	0	1	0	0	10	2	1.35	0.82	6.8	1.3
7	Cam Schlittler	United States	25	Division Series	2	2	10.2	1	1	0	0	12	2	1.69	0.94	10.1	1.7
8	Jesús Luzardo	Peru	29	Wild Card	1	1	5.0	0	0	0	0	6	1	1.80	0.80	10.8	1.8
9	Gerrit Cole	United States	36	Division Series	1	1	5.0	0	1	0	0	5	1	1.80	1.20	9.0	1.8
10	Jacob Misiorowski	United States	24	World Series	4	4	19.0	2	0	0	0	16	6	1.89	1.11	7.6	2.8
11	Gavin Williams	United States	27	LCS	4	3	16.2	2	0	0	0	33	6	2.16	0.84	17.8	3.2
12	Drew Rasmussen	United States	31	World Series	5	5	28.2	2	1	0	0	31	5	2.20	0.91	9.7	1.6
13	Cade Smith	Canada	27	LCS	9	0	11.1	0	0	2	0	14	2	2.38	0.53	11.1	1.6
14	Tarik Skubal	United States	30	LCS	2	2	11.0	1	1	0	0	14	4	2.45	1.00	11.5	3.3
15	Sean Newcomb	United States	33	Division Series	4	1	7.0	0	0	0	0	7	1	2.57	1.00	9.0	1.3
16	Nick Martinez	United States	36	World Series	4	3	16.0	1	1	0	0	12	3	2.81	1.00	6.8	1.7
17	Freddy Peralta	Dominican Republic	30	World Series	5	4	21.1	2	1	0	1	16	10	2.95	1.36	6.8	4.2
18	Nick Pivetta	Canada	33	Division Series	2	2	7.2	0	0	0	0	8	2	3.52	1.30	9.4	2.3
19	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	Japan	28	LCS	2	2	9.2	1	0	0	0	11	3	3.72	1.14	10.2	2.8
20	Sean Burke	United States	27	Division Series	3	2	14.1	1	1	0	0	18	1	3.77	0.70	11.3	0.6
21	Max Fried	United States	32	Division Series	2	2	11.2	1	1	0	0	13	1	3.86	0.94	10.0	0.8
22	Didier Fuentes	Colombia	21	Division Series	5	0	7.0	0	1	0	1	5	2	3.86	1.00	6.4	2.6
23	Parker Messick	United States	26	LCS	4	4	13.2	0	3	0	0	17	10	3.95	1.98	11.2	6.6
24	Cristopher Sánchez	Dominican Republic	30	Wild Card	1	1	6.2	0	0	0	0	6	5	4.05	1.65	8.1	6.8
25	Grant Taylor	United States	24	Division Series	5	0	8.2	0	0	2	0	11	5	4.15	1.62	11.4	5.2
26	Chris Sale	United States	37	Division Series	3	2	12.2	0	1	0	0	19	1	4.26	1.03	13.5	0.7
27	Blake Snell	United States	34	LCS	2	2	9.2	0	1	0	0	14	7	4.66	1.45	13.0	6.5
28	Tyler Glasnow	United States	33	LCS	2	2	9.0	0	0	0	0	11	7	5.00	1.22	11.0	7.0

Reading this table

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are all measured against a league season, and a dozen clubs playing each other's best pitchers for a month is not one — borrowing the regular season's baselines would print numbers that look comparable and are not. Reached is the last round the player's club played in. The Parquet holds every round as well as the October totals. See the methodology →