Players · C · Pitcher · 2026 regular season
Gerrit Cole
- Age
- 36
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 220 lb
- Number
- #45
- Born
- September 8, 1990 in Newport Beach, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- June 11, 2013
- Drafted
- 2008, round 1
- College
- UCLA
- High school
- Orange Lutheran
- Salary, 2026
- $36M
- dbWAR
- 48.7 Regular season, 20 season(s)
- IP
- 127.0
- ERA
- 3.61
- FIP
- 3.93
- K/9
- 9.3
- FIP−
- 94 100 = avg
Gerrit Cole is a starting pitcher for the New York Yankees. In 2026 he struck out 131 batters over 127.0 innings across 22 appearances, 22 of them starts, going 10-9. His ERA of 3.61 was 13.6% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 10th of 17 on his team, and 179th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.93 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 21.3% of swings (10.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 4.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 25.2%. His 2.0 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 | NYY | 22 | 22 | 127.0 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 115 | 51 | 131 | 25 | 3.61 | 3.93 | 1.10 | 9.3 | 1.8 | 86 | 94 | 2.0 | |
| 2024 | NYY | 17 | 17 | 95.0 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 78 | 36 | 99 | 29 | 3.41 | 3.69 | 1.13 | 9.4 | 2.7 | 84 | 91 | 1.6 | |
| 2023 | NYY | 33 | 33 | 209.0 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 157 | 61 | 222 | 48 | 2.63 | 3.16 | 0.98 | 9.6 | 2.1 | 61 | 73 | 5.3 | |
| 2022 | NYY | 33 | 33 | 200.2 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 154 | 78 | 257 | 50 | 3.50 | 3.47 | 1.02 | 11.5 | 2.2 | 88 | 87 | 3.6 | |
| 2021 | NYY | 30 | 30 | 181.1 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 151 | 65 | 243 | 41 | 3.23 | 2.92 | 1.06 | 12.1 | 2.0 | 76 | 68 | 5.0 | |
| 2020 | NYY | 12 | 12 | 73.0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 53 | 23 | 94 | 17 | 2.84 | 3.89 | 0.96 | 11.6 | 2.1 | 64 | 87 | 1.4 | |
| 2019 | HOU | 33 | 33 | 212.1 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 142 | 59 | 326 | 48 | 2.50 | 2.64 | 0.89 | 13.8 | 2.0 | 56 | 59 | 7.1 | |
| 2018 | HOU | 32 | 32 | 200.1 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 143 | 64 | 276 | 64 | 2.88 | 2.70 | 1.03 | 12.4 | 2.9 | 69 | 65 | 5.8 | |
| 2017 | PIT | 33 | 33 | 203.0 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 199 | 96 | 196 | 55 | 4.26 | 4.08 | 1.25 | 8.7 | 2.4 | 98 | 94 | 3.0 | |
| 2016 | PIT | 21 | 21 | 116.0 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 131 | 50 | 98 | 36 | 3.88 | 3.33 | 1.44 | 7.6 | 2.8 | 93 | 79 | 2.5 | |
| 2015 | PIT | 32 | 32 | 208.0 | 19 | 8 | 0 | 183 | 60 | 202 | 44 | 2.60 | 2.66 | 1.09 | 8.7 | 1.9 | 66 | 67 | 5.6 | |
| 2014 | PIT | 22 | 22 | 138.0 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 127 | 56 | 138 | 40 | 3.65 | 3.23 | 1.21 | 9.0 | 2.6 | 98 | 86 | 2.4 | |
| 2013 | PIT | 19 | 19 | 117.1 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 109 | 42 | 100 | 28 | 3.22 | 2.91 | 1.17 | 7.7 | 2.1 | 83 | 75 | 2.6 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | HOU | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 71.4% | .000 | -1.9 | -116 | -0.1 | |
| 2018 | HOU | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 88.9% | .000 | -2.3 | -121 | -0.1 | |
| 2017 | PIT | 32 | 68 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 21 | .164 | .179 | .236 | .073 | .242 | 1.5% | 30.9% | .180 | -8.2 | 1 | 0.2 | |
| 2016 | PIT | 21 | 43 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 19 | .200 | .220 | .300 | .100 | .350 | 0.0% | 44.2% | .228 | -3.2 | 36 | 0.3 | |
| 2015 | PIT | 30 | 71 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 28 | .150 | .177 | .150 | .000 | .281 | 2.8% | 39.4% | .151 | -9.3 | -17 | -0.0 | |
| 2014 | PIT | 22 | 52 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 17 | .174 | .208 | .239 | .065 | .250 | 3.8% | 32.7% | .205 | -4.3 | 24 | 0.2 | |
| 2013 | PIT | 17 | 36 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | .206 | .229 | .206 | .000 | .350 | 2.8% | 38.9% | .199 | -3.3 | 17 | 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 | NYY | ALDS · through Oct 3 | 1 | 1 | 5.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1.80 | 1.20 | 9.0 |
| 2024 Post | NYY | Postseason total | 5 | 5 | 29.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 22 | 2.17 | 1.28 | 6.8 |
| ALDS | 2 | 2 | 12.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 3.00 | 1.25 | 6.0 | ||
| ALCS | 1 | 1 | 4.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4.15 | 2.31 | 8.3 | ||
| World Series | 2 | 2 | 12.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 0.71 | 0.95 | 7.1 | ||
| 2022 Post | NYY | Postseason total | 3 | 3 | 18.1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 23 | 2.95 | 1.04 | 11.3 |
| ALDS | 2 | 2 | 13.1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 2.02 | 0.90 | 10.8 | ||
| ALCS | 1 | 1 | 5.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5.40 | 1.40 | 12.6 | ||
| 2021 Post | NYY | Wild Card | 1 | 1 | 2.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 13.50 | 3.00 | 13.5 |
| 2020 Post | NYY | Postseason total | 3 | 3 | 18.1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 30 | 2.95 | 0.93 | 14.7 |
| Wild Card | 1 | 1 | 7.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2.57 | 0.86 | 16.7 | ||
| ALDS | 2 | 2 | 11.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 3.18 | 0.97 | 13.5 | ||
| 2019 Post | HOU | Postseason total | 5 | 5 | 36.2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 47 | 1.72 | 0.87 | 11.5 |
| ALDS | 2 | 2 | 15.2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 25 | 0.57 | 0.57 | 14.4 | ||
| ALCS | 1 | 1 | 7.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 0.00 | 1.29 | 9.0 | ||
| World Series | 2 | 2 | 14.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 3.86 | 1.00 | 9.6 | ||
| 2018 Post | HOU | Postseason total | 2 | 2 | 13.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 3.46 | 0.85 | 11.8 |
| ALDS | 1 | 1 | 7.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 1.29 | 0.43 | 15.4 | ||
| ALCS | 1 | 1 | 6.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6.00 | 1.33 | 7.5 | ||
| 2015 Post | PIT | Wild Card | 1 | 1 | 5.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7.20 | 1.40 | 7.2 |
| 2013 Post | PIT | NLDS | 2 | 2 | 11.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 2.45 | 0.64 | 8.2 |
| Career | Postseason total · 9 Octobers | 23 | 23 | 138.1 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 105 | 42 | 20 | 37 | 161 | 2.73 | 1.03 | 10.5 |
Postseason batting
| Season | Team | Round | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Post | HOU | World Series | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| 2015 Post | PIT | Wild Card | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| 2013 Post | PIT | NLDS | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 |
| Career | Postseason total · 3 Octobers | 4 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .250 |
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 | 311 | 291 | 65 | 15 | 19 | 86 | .223 | .271 | .423 | .302 | 27.7% |
| vs RHB | 208 | 199 | 50 | 7 | 6 | 45 | .251 | .280 | .422 | .305 | 21.6% |
Pitch sequencing
What Gerrit Cole 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 | 945 | 96.8 | 2,323 | 53.4% | 20.9% | 239 | .226 | .679 | |
| Slider | 390 | 89.5 | 2,496 | 46.9% | 25.6% | 99 | .212 | .627 | |
| Knuckle Curve | 271 | 83.3 | 2,816 | 49.8% | 20.5% | 63 | .286 | .868 | |
| Changeup | 248 | 86.0 | 1,928 | 38.7% | 22.1% | 67 | .224 | .623 | |
| Sinker | 68 | 96.0 | 2,315 | 52.9% | 6.3% | 15 | .400 | .993 | |
| Unknown | 28 | — | — | 39.3% | 6.3% | 8 | — | — |
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