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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: 43.2
IP: 127.0
ERA: 3.61
FIP: 3.93
K/9: 9.3
FIP−: 94

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 is 13.5% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 10th of 17 on his team, and 184th of 538 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.

FIP3.93

K/99.3

WHIP1.10

WAR2.0

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	NYY	22	22	127.0	10	9	115	51	131	25	3.61	3.93	1.10	9.3	1.8	87	94	2.0
2024	NYY	17	17	95.0	8	5	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	183	60	202	44	2.60	2.66	1.09	8.7	1.9	66	67	5.6

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	HOU	3	7	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	8	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	88.9%	.000	-2.3	-121	-0.1
2017	PIT	32	68	9	1	3	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	19	.200	.220	.300	.100	.350	0.0%	44.2%	.228	-3.2	36	0.3
2015	PIT	30	71	9	0	2	2	28	.150	.177	.150	.000	.281	2.8%	39.4%	.151	-9.3	-17	-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	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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Four-seamSliderKnuckle curveChangeupSinkerUnknown

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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	48.4%	945	96.8	2,323	53.4%	20.9%	239	.226	.679
Slider	20.0%	390	89.5	2,496	46.9%	25.6%	99	.212	.627
Knuckle Curve	13.9%	271	83.3	2,816	49.8%	20.5%	63	.286	.868
Changeup	12.7%	248	86.0	1,928	38.7%	22.1%	67	.224	.623
Sinker	3.5%	68	96.0	2,315	52.9%	6.3%	15	.400	.993
Unknown	1.4%	28	—	—	39.3%	6.3%	8	—	—

Gerrit Cole'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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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.