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Shawn Armstrong
- Age
- 36
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Number
- #43
- Born
- September 11, 1990 in New Bern, NC, United States
- MLB debut
- August 8, 2015
- Drafted
- 2008, round 33
- College
- East Carolina
- High school
- West Craven
- Salary, 2026
- $4M
- dbWAR
- 5.0 Regular season, 12 season(s)
- IP
- 35.1
- ERA
- 4.58
- FIP
- 4.43
- K/9
- 8.7
- FIP−
- 106 100 = avg
Shawn Armstrong is a relief pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians. In 2026 he struck out 34 batters over 35.1 innings across 41 appearances, going 2-1. His ERA of 4.58 was 9.7% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 12th of 15 on his team, and 354th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.43 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 23.7% of swings (11.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 12.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 22.1%. His 0.1 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, 2026 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | CLE | 41 | 0 | 35.1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 18 | 34 | 19 | 4.58 | 4.43 | 1.36 | 8.7 | 4.8 | 110 | 106 | 0.1 | |
| 2025 | TEX | 71 | 2 | 74.0 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 40 | 19 | 74 | 20 | 2.31 | 3.07 | 0.81 | 9.0 | 2.4 | 56 | 74 | 1.3 | |
| 2024 | TB/STL/CHC | 57 | 7 | 66.2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 77 | 36 | 66 | 25 | 4.86 | 3.57 | 1.53 | 8.9 | 3.4 | 119 | 88 | 0.8 | |
| 2023 | TB | 39 | 6 | 52.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 8 | 54 | 11 | 1.38 | 2.54 | 0.90 | 9.3 | 1.9 | 32 | 59 | 1.4 | |
| 2022 | TB/MIA | 50 | 3 | 61.2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 66 | 30 | 66 | 17 | 4.38 | 3.47 | 1.35 | 9.6 | 2.5 | 110 | 87 | 0.7 | |
| 2021 | BAL/TB | 31 | 0 | 36.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 27 | 44 | 15 | 6.75 | 5.75 | 1.50 | 11.0 | 3.8 | 158 | 135 | -0.3 | |
| 2020 | BAL | 14 | 0 | 15.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 14 | 3 | 1.80 | 2.99 | 0.80 | 8.4 | 1.8 | 40 | 67 | 0.3 | |
| 2019 | BAL/SEA | 55 | 0 | 58.0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 66 | 37 | 63 | 29 | 5.74 | 4.54 | 1.64 | 9.8 | 4.5 | 127 | 101 | 0.4 | |
| 2018 | SEA | 14 | 0 | 14.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 15 | 3 | 1.23 | 3.23 | 0.82 | 9.2 | 1.8 | 30 | 78 | 0.2 | |
| 2017 | CLE | 21 | 0 | 24.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 12 | 20 | 10 | 4.38 | 5.51 | 1.34 | 7.3 | 3.6 | 100 | 126 | -0.2 | |
| 2016 | CLE | 10 | 0 | 10.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 2.53 | 4.46 | 1.31 | 5.9 | 4.2 | 60 | 106 | 0.0 | |
| 2015 | CLE | 8 | 0 | 8.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 2.25 | 2.76 | 0.88 | 12.4 | 2.3 | 57 | 70 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Post | CLE | Postseason total · through Oct 19 | 7 | 2 | 8.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1.04 | 0.35 | 6.2 |
| ALDS | 3 | 0 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.8 | ||
| ALCS | 4 | 2 | 5.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1.80 | 0.60 | 3.6 | ||
| 2023 Post | TB | Wild Card | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 9.0 |
| 2022 Post | TB | Wild Card | 1 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | 0.75 | 20.3 |
| Career | Postseason total · 3 Octobers | 9 | 2 | 11.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.82 | 0.45 | 8.2 |
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 | 81 | 72 | 15 | 2 | 8 | 21 | .208 | .284 | .347 | .277 | 25.9% |
| vs RHB | 73 | 59 | 14 | 2 | 11 | 13 | .237 | .375 | .373 | .347 | 17.8% |
Pitch sequencing
What Shawn Armstrong 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.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 194 | 93.5 | 2,220 | 49.0% | 23.4% | 51 | .235 | .761 | |
| Sweeper | 176 | 84.5 | 2,580 | 42.6% | 28.2% | 30 | .133 | .435 | |
| Cutter | 151 | 90.0 | 2,434 | 53.0% | 23.0% | 33 | .212 | .649 | |
| Sinker | 107 | 93.7 | 2,044 | 43.9% | 18.6% | 18 | .333 | .867 |
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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.