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Fernando Cruz
- Age
- 36
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 237 lb
- Number
- #63
- Born
- March 28, 1990 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico
- MLB debut
- September 2, 2022
- Drafted
- 2007, round 6
- High school
- Puerto Rico Advancement College
- Salary, 2026
- $1.45M
- dbWAR
- 4.1 Regular season, 5 season(s)
- IP
- 54.2
- ERA
- 3.13
- FIP
- 4.18
- K/9
- 11.0
- FIP−
- 100 100 = avg
Fernando Cruz is a relief pitcher for the New York Yankees. In 2026 he struck out 67 batters over 54.2 innings across 61 appearances, going 4-6. His ERA of 3.13 was 25.2% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 8th of 17 on his team, and 110th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.18 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 39.1% of swings (17.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 13.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 28.6%. His 0.4 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 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Post | NYY | Postseason total | 4 | 0 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2.45 | 1.36 | 9.8 |
| Wild Card | 2 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.00 | 1.20 | 5.4 | ||
| ALDS | 2 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4.50 | 1.50 | 13.5 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 122 | 100 | 18 | 3 | 20 | 30 | .180 | .311 | .320 | .290 | 24.6% |
| vs RHB | 112 | 98 | 23 | 4 | 12 | 37 | .235 | .330 | .418 | .331 | 33.0% |
Pitch sequencing
What Fernando Cruz 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.
| Splitter | 484 | 80.0 | 724 | 45.9% | 52.0% | 118 | .161 | .542 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 301 | 93.2 | 2,240 | 45.5% | 13.4% | 61 | .311 | .952 | |
| Slider | 125 | 82.2 | 2,559 | 48.8% | 38.1% | 11 | — | — | |
| Sinker | 28 | 92.6 | 2,079 | 42.9% | 16.7% | 7 | — | — |
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- Devin Williamssimilar 2025 seasons
- Connor Phillipssimilar 2025 seasons
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- Mason Millersimilar 2025 seasons
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Nearest 2026 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.