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Kirby Yates

Age: 39
B/T: L/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #54

Born: March 25, 1987 in Lihue, HI, United States
MLB debut: June 7, 2014
Drafted: 2005, round 26
College: Yavapai JC
High school: Kauai
Salary, 2026: $5M

dbWAR: 5.9
IP: 40.2
ERA: 3.32
FIP: 3.25
K/9: 10.6
FIP−: 78

Kirby Yates is a relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2026 he struck out 48 batters over 40.2 innings across 45 appearances, going 2-5. His ERA of 3.32 is 20.5% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 5th of 21 on his team, and 132nd of 538 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.25 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 28.5% of swings (14.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 27.9%. His 0.6 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.

FIP3.25

K/910.6

WHIP1.20

WAR.6

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	LAA/PIT	45	40.2	2	5	3	32	15	48	17	3.32	3.25	1.20	10.6	3.8	79	78	0.6
2025	LAD	50	41.1	4	3	3	38	24	52	17	5.23	4.76	1.33	11.3	3.7	126	114	0.0
2024	TEX	61	61.2	7	2	33	23	8	85	28	1.17	2.50	0.83	12.4	4.1	29	61	1.4
2023	ATL	61	60.1	7	2	5	35	22	80	37	3.28	4.63	1.19	11.9	5.5	76	107	0.2
2022	ATL	9	7.0	0	0	0	6	4	6	5	5.14	7.26	1.57	7.7	6.4	130	183	-0.2
2020	SD	6	4.1	0	1	2	7	6	8	4	12.46	5.27	2.54	16.6	8.3	280	118	-0.0
2019	SD	60	60.2	0	5	41	41	8	101	13	1.19	1.30	0.89	15.0	1.9	26	29	2.4
2018	SD	65	63.0	5	3	12	41	15	90	17	2.14	2.54	0.92	12.9	2.4	52	61	1.6
2017	SD/LAA	62	56.2	4	5	1	44	25	88	19	3.97	3.92	1.11	14.0	3.0	91	90	0.6
2016	NYY	41	41.1	2	1	0	41	24	50	19	5.23	3.97	1.45	10.9	4.1	125	95	0.4
2015	TB	20	20.1	1	0	0	23	18	21	7	7.97	8.64	1.48	9.3	3.1	201	218	-1.0

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2018	SD	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-119	-0.0	—

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	82	70	18	2	9	23	.257	.346	.429	.343	28.0%
vs RHB	90	78	14	1	8	25	.179	.278	.244	.249	27.8%

Pitch sequencing

What Kirby Yates 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


Four-Seam Fastball	65.9%	460	90.8	2,316	57.4%	26.7%	101	.218	.609
Splitter	32.4%	226	84.4	1,247	38.9%	33.3%	45	.200	.632
Sweeper	1.7%	12	75.0	2,428	33.3%	0.0%	2	—	—

Kirby Yates'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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Similar players

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

Gregory SotoPIT

ERA: 3.68
FIP: 3.33
SO: 79
WAR: 1.1

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Ryan FernandezSTL

ERA: 3.52
FIP: 3.23
SO: 28
WAR: 0.4

Very close

Michael PetersenMIA

ERA: 3.08
FIP: 3.09
SO: 81
WAR: 1.2

Very close

Anthony NunezBAL

ERA: 4.07
FIP: 3.49
SO: 66
WAR: 0.8

Very close

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.