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Lance Lynn

St. Louis Cardinals National League Central

Age: 37
B/T: S/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 280 lb
Number: #33

Born: May 12, 1987 in Marion County, IN, United States
MLB debut: June 2, 2011
Drafted: 2008, round C-A
College: Mississippi
High school: Brownsburg
Salary, 2024: $10M

dbWAR: 29.9
IP: 117.1
ERA: 3.84
FIP: 4.31
K/9: 8.4
FIP−: 106

Lance Lynn was a starting pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2024 he struck out 109 batters over 117.1 innings across 23 appearances, 23 of them starts, going 7-4. His ERA of 3.84 was 6.0% lower than the league average of 4.08 — 8th of 16 on his team, and 259th of 541 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.31 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 24.1% of swings (11.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.3%. His 1.1 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, 2024 regular season.

FIP4.31

K/98.4

WHIP1.34

WAR1.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2024	STL	23	23	117.1	7	4	0	113	50	109	44	3.84	4.31	1.34	8.4	3.4	94	106	1.1
2023	CWS/LAD	32	32	183.2	13	11	0	189	117	191	67	5.73	5.53	1.39	9.4	3.3	132	128	-0.3
2022	CWS	21	21	121.2	8	7	0	119	54	124	19	3.99	3.82	1.13	9.2	1.4	101	96	1.8
2021	CWS	28	28	157.0	11	6	0	123	47	176	45	2.69	3.32	1.07	10.1	2.6	63	78	3.7
2020	TEX	13	13	84.0	6	3	0	64	31	89	25	3.32	4.19	1.06	9.5	2.7	75	94	1.3
2019	TEX	33	33	208.1	16	11	0	195	85	246	59	3.67	3.13	1.22	10.6	2.5	82	69	6.1
2018	MIN/NYY	31	29	156.2	10	10	0	163	83	161	76	4.77	3.84	1.53	9.2	4.4	115	92	2.4
2017	STL	33	33	186.1	11	8	0	151	71	153	78	3.43	4.82	1.23	7.4	3.8	79	111	1.1
2015	STL	31	31	175.1	12	11	0	172	59	167	68	3.03	3.44	1.37	8.6	3.5	76	87	3.1
2014	STL	33	33	203.2	15	10	0	185	62	181	72	2.74	3.35	1.26	8.0	3.2	73	90	3.5
2013	STL	33	33	201.2	15	10	0	189	89	198	76	3.97	3.28	1.31	8.8	3.4	103	85	3.6
2012	STL	35	29	176.0	18	7	0	168	74	180	64	3.78	3.49	1.32	9.2	3.3	94	87	2.9
2011	STL	18	2	34.2	1	1	1	25	12	40	11	3.12	2.88	1.04	10.4	2.9	79	73	0.6

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2021	CWS	2	5	1	2	0	3	.200	.200	.200	.000	.500	0.0%	60.0%	.175	-0.6	2	0.0
2019	TEX	1	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.6	-111	-0.0
2018	MIN/NYY	3	4	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.0	-120	-0.0
2017	STL	30	61	4	0	1	25	.074	.107	.111	.037	.138	1.6%	41.0%	.102	-11.3	-54	-0.2
2015	STL	26	55	8	1	0	26	.160	.160	.200	.040	.333	0.0%	47.3%	.157	-7.0	-13	0.0
2014	STL	31	69	4	1	4	34	.067	.138	.083	.017	.154	5.8%	49.3%	.116	-10.4	-39	-0.2
2013	STL	31	69	4	2	4	30	.074	.138	.074	.000	.167	5.8%	43.5%	.110	-11.0	-47	-0.2
2012	STL	27	63	3	1	2	36	.060	.094	.060	.000	.200	3.2%	57.1%	.077	-12.0	-67	-0.4
2011	STL	3	5	0	0	1	1	.000	.200	.000	.000	.000	20.0%	20.0%	.142	-0.7	-24	-0.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Lance Lynn's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2023 Post	LAD	NLDS	1	1	2.2	0	1	6	4	4	0	1	13.50	2.25	3.4
2021 Post	CWS	ALDS	1	1	3.2	0	1	6	5	0	2	4	12.27	2.18	9.8
2018 Post	NYY	ALDS	2	0	2.1	0	0	3	3	0	2	2	11.57	2.14	7.7
2015 Post	STL	NLDS	1	0	1.0	0	0	1	1	0	1	2	9.00	2.00	18.0
2014 Post	STL	Postseason total	2	2	11.2	0	0	13	4	0	3	11	3.09	1.37	8.5
		NLDS	1	1	6.0	0	0	7	2	0	2	8	3.00	1.50	12.0
		NLCS	1	1	5.2	0	0	6	2	0	1	3	3.18	1.24	4.8
2013 Post	STL	Postseason total	5	3	17.1	2	2	19	10	1	11	17	5.19	1.73	8.8
		NLDS	1	1	4.1	0	1	7	5	1	3	6	10.38	2.31	12.5
		NLCS	2	1	7.1	2	0	7	2	0	4	6	2.45	1.50	7.4
		World Series	2	1	5.2	0	1	5	3	0	4	5	4.76	1.59	7.9
2012 Post	STL	Postseason total	6	2	11.0	1	2	13	7	3	6	15	5.73	1.73	12.3
		Wild Card	1	0	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.0
		NLDS	3	0	3.1	1	1	4	3	3	2	6	8.10	1.80	16.2
		NLCS	2	2	7.1	0	1	9	4	0	4	9	4.91	1.77	11.0
2011 Post	STL	Postseason total	10	0	11.0	2	0	10	4	2	5	5	3.27	1.36	4.1
		NLCS	5	0	5.1	1	0	3	0	0	2	1	0.00	0.94	1.7
		World Series	5	0	5.2	1	0	7	4	2	3	4	6.35	1.76	6.4
Career		Postseason total · 8 Octobers	28	9	60.2	5	6	71	38	10	30	57	5.64	1.66	8.5

Postseason batting

Postseason Lance Lynn's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2014 Post	STL	Postseason total	2	4	4	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	1	2	2	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	1	2	2	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2013 Post	STL	Postseason total	3	5	3	1	2	.000	.250	.000	.250
		NLDS	1	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	1	2	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	—
		World Series	1	2	2	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2012 Post	STL	Postseason total	3	4	2	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333
		NLDS	1	1	0	0	0	—	—	—	—
		NLCS	2	3	2	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333
2011 Post	STL	NLCS	1	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	9	14	10	2	7	.000	.167	.000	.167

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2024. 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	268	233	60	9	30	50	.258	.343	.429	.340	18.7%
vs RHB	243	225	53	7	14	59	.236	.285	.373	.289	24.3%

Pitch sequencing

What Lance Lynn throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

ShowBatter

Four-seamCutterSinkerChangeupCurveballSweeper

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	47.3%	964	92.3	2,454	51.3%	28.7%	204	.196	.632
Cutter	22.3%	454	88.1	2,646	44.1%	26.2%	101	.317	.812
Sinker	16.7%	340	91.1	2,377	41.5%	11.0%	83	.289	.876
Changeup	6.3%	128	84.8	1,760	23.4%	22.5%	24	.292	.705
Curveball	6.2%	127	80.4	2,526	34.6%	20.3%	38	.211	.567
Sweeper	1.3%	26	82.0	2,693	34.6%	0.0%	8	—	—

Lance Lynn'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 2024 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Kyle GibsonSTL

ERA: 4.24
FIP: 4.42
SO: 151
WAR: 1.3

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ERA: 4.17
FIP: 4.12
SO: 117
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Luis SeverinoNYM

ERA: 3.91
FIP: 4.21
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Dean KremerBAL

ERA: 4.10
FIP: 4.32
SO: 123
WAR: 1.2

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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.