Players · G · Pitcher · 2026 regular season
Sonny Gray
- Age
- 37
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 10"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Number
- #54
- Born
- November 7, 1989 in Smyrna, TN, United States
- MLB debut
- July 10, 2013
- Drafted
- 2008, round 27
- College
- Vanderbilt
- High school
- Smyrna
- Salary, 2026
- $35M
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- dbWAR
- 40.4 Regular season, 20 season(s)
- IP
- 169.0
- ERA
- 2.72
- FIP
- 3.48
- K/9
- 7.9
- FIP−
- 83 100 = avg
Sonny Gray is a starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2026 he struck out 149 batters over 169.0 innings across 29 appearances, 29 of them starts, going 18-5. His ERA of 2.72 was 35.0% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 5th of 19 on his team, and 65th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.48 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 23.1% of swings (11.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.8%. His 3.5 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 | BOS | 29 | 29 | 169.0 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 148 | 51 | 149 | 46 | 2.72 | 3.48 | 1.15 | 7.9 | 2.4 | 65 | 83 | 3.5 | |
| 2025 | STL | 32 | 32 | 180.2 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 185 | 86 | 201 | 38 | 4.28 | 3.39 | 1.23 | 10.0 | 1.9 | 103 | 82 | 3.7 | |
| 2024 | STL | 28 | 28 | 166.1 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 142 | 71 | 203 | 39 | 3.84 | 3.12 | 1.09 | 11.0 | 2.1 | 94 | 77 | 3.8 | |
| 2023 | MIN | 32 | 32 | 184.0 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 156 | 57 | 183 | 55 | 2.79 | 2.83 | 1.15 | 9.0 | 2.7 | 64 | 65 | 5.4 | |
| 2022 | MIN | 24 | 24 | 119.2 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 99 | 41 | 117 | 36 | 3.08 | 3.40 | 1.13 | 8.8 | 2.7 | 78 | 86 | 2.2 | |
| 2021 | CIN | 26 | 26 | 135.1 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 115 | 63 | 155 | 50 | 4.19 | 3.99 | 1.22 | 10.3 | 3.3 | 98 | 94 | 2.4 | |
| 2020 | CIN | 11 | 11 | 56.0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 42 | 23 | 72 | 26 | 3.70 | 3.05 | 1.21 | 11.6 | 4.2 | 83 | 68 | 1.7 | |
| 2019 | CIN | 31 | 31 | 175.1 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 122 | 56 | 205 | 68 | 2.87 | 3.42 | 1.08 | 10.5 | 3.5 | 64 | 76 | 4.3 | |
| 2018 | NYY | 30 | 23 | 130.1 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 138 | 71 | 123 | 57 | 4.90 | 4.17 | 1.50 | 8.5 | 3.9 | 118 | 100 | 1.5 | |
| 2017 | OAK/NYY | 27 | 27 | 162.1 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 139 | 64 | 153 | 57 | 3.55 | 3.90 | 1.21 | 8.5 | 3.2 | 81 | 90 | 2.9 | |
| 2016 | OAK | 22 | 22 | 117.0 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 133 | 74 | 94 | 42 | 5.69 | 4.67 | 1.50 | 7.2 | 3.2 | 136 | 111 | 0.6 | |
| 2015 | OAK | 31 | 31 | 208.0 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 166 | 63 | 169 | 59 | 2.73 | 3.45 | 1.08 | 7.3 | 2.6 | 69 | 87 | 3.6 | |
| 2014 | OAK | 33 | 33 | 219.0 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 187 | 75 | 183 | 74 | 3.08 | 3.46 | 1.19 | 7.5 | 3.0 | 82 | 93 | 3.3 | |
| 2013 | OAK | 12 | 10 | 64.0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 51 | 19 | 67 | 20 | 2.67 | 2.70 | 1.11 | 9.4 | 2.8 | 69 | 70 | 1.5 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | CIN | 24 | 43 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | .146 | .167 | .146 | .000 | .194 | 2.3% | 23.3% | .142 | -6.3 | -20 | 0.0 | |
| 2019 | CIN | 28 | 60 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 19 | .152 | .188 | .196 | .043 | .259 | 3.3% | 31.7% | .171 | -7.8 | -3 | 0.1 | |
| 2018 | NYY | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.5 | -116 | -0.0 | |
| 2016 | OAK | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 33.3% | .000 | -0.8 | -123 | -0.0 | |
| 2015 | OAK | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .000 | .500 | 0.0% | 66.7% | .147 | -0.8 | -20 | -0.0 | |
| 2014 | OAK | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 25.0% | .000 | -1.0 | -121 | -0.0 |
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 | BOS | Wild Card · through Sep 30 | 1 | 1 | 4.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3.86 | 1.29 | 9.6 |
| 2023 Post | MIN | Postseason total | 2 | 2 | 9.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 4.00 | 1.78 | 12.0 |
| Wild Card | 1 | 1 | 5.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0.00 | 1.40 | 10.8 | ||
| ALDS | 1 | 1 | 4.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9.00 | 2.25 | 13.5 | ||
| 2017 Post | NYY | Postseason total | 2 | 2 | 8.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4.32 | 1.20 | 6.5 |
| ALDS | 1 | 1 | 3.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8.10 | 2.10 | 5.4 | ||
| ALCS | 1 | 1 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1.80 | 0.60 | 7.2 | ||
| 2013 Post | OAK | ALDS | 2 | 2 | 13.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 2.08 | 1.23 | 8.3 |
| Career | Postseason total · 4 Octobers | 7 | 7 | 35.0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 33 | 13 | 5 | 15 | 35 | 3.34 | 1.37 | 9.0 |
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 | 444 | 404 | 92 | 10 | 31 | 105 | .228 | .287 | .366 | .290 | 23.6% |
| vs RHB | 240 | 224 | 56 | 6 | 15 | 44 | .250 | .300 | .379 | .302 | 18.3% |
Pitch sequencing
What Sonny Gray 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.
| Sinker | 538 | 92.0 | 2,366 | 45.0% | 15.4% | 157 | .217 | .584 | |
| Sweeper | 506 | 84.8 | 2,683 | 44.5% | 38.3% | 162 | .136 | .381 | |
| Cutter | 460 | 88.3 | 2,637 | 44.3% | 14.9% | 110 | .291 | .817 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 433 | 91.5 | 2,482 | 45.0% | 12.5% | 109 | .294 | .847 | |
| Curveball | 393 | 79.6 | 2,611 | 48.1% | 30.9% | 67 | .328 | .940 | |
| Changeup | 142 | 86.2 | 1,746 | 35.9% | 22.2% | 25 | .240 | .600 |
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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.