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Michael Lorenzen

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #55

Born: January 4, 1992 in Anaheim, CA, United States
MLB debut: April 29, 2015
Drafted: 2013, round CB-A
College: Cal State Fullerton
High school: Fullerton Union
Salary, 2026: $8M

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dbWAR: 7.7
IP: 127.1
ERA: 7.21
FIP: 5.45
K/9: 6.4
FIP−: 130

Michael Lorenzen is a starting pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. In 2026 he struck out 90 batters over 127.1 innings across 32 appearances, 25 of them starts, going 3-13. His ERA of 7.21 was 72.4% higher than the league average of 4.18 — the second worst on his team, and 530th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.45 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 18.0% of swings (8.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.5%. His -0.3 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.

FIP5.45

K/96.4

WHIP1.88

WAR-.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	COL/TOR	32	25	127.1	3	13	1	186	102	90	54	7.21	5.45	1.88	6.4	3.8	172	130	-0.3
2025	KC	27	26	141.2	7	11	0	149	73	127	39	4.64	4.59	1.33	8.1	2.5	112	110	0.9
2024	TEX/KC	26	24	130.1	7	6	0	101	48	97	60	3.31	4.89	1.24	6.7	4.1	81	120	0.1
2023	DET/PHI	29	25	153.0	9	9	1	138	71	111	47	4.18	4.46	1.21	6.5	2.8	96	103	1.6
2022	LAA	18	18	97.2	8	6	0	81	46	85	44	4.24	4.31	1.28	7.8	4.1	107	109	0.8
2021	CIN	27	0	29.0	1	2	4	26	18	21	14	5.59	4.17	1.38	6.5	4.3	131	98	0.3
2020	CIN	18	2	33.2	3	1	0	30	16	35	17	4.28	3.87	1.40	9.4	4.5	96	87	0.5
2019	CIN	73	0	83.1	1	4	7	68	27	85	28	2.92	3.66	1.15	9.2	3.0	65	81	1.3
2018	CIN	45	3	81.0	4	2	1	78	28	54	34	3.11	4.16	1.38	6.0	3.8	75	100	0.6
2017	CIN	70	0	83.0	8	4	2	78	41	80	34	4.45	4.01	1.35	8.7	3.7	102	92	0.8
2016	CIN	35	0	50.0	2	1	0	41	16	48	13	2.88	3.67	1.08	8.6	2.3	69	88	0.6
2015	CIN	27	21	113.1	4	9	0	131	68	83	57	5.40	5.40	1.66	6.6	4.5	136	136	-0.7

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2021	CIN	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-112	-0.0
2020	CIN	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	1.000	—	—	—	0.0%	0.0%	.752	+0.4	379	0.0
2019	CIN	33	53	10	1	6	5	5	17	.208	.283	.313	.104	.300	9.4%	32.1%	.265	-2.6	60	0.1
2018	CIN	28	34	9	4	10	0	2	9	.290	.333	.710	.419	.278	5.9%	26.5%	.435	+3.2	175	0.6
2017	CIN	12	12	2	1	1	0	0	5	.167	.167	.417	.250	.167	0.0%	41.7%	.239	-0.9	41	0.1
2016	CIN	5	5	1	1	3	0	0	2	.200	.200	.800	.600	.000	0.0%	40.0%	.415	+0.4	164	0.1
2015	CIN	24	41	9	0	4	0	0	13	.250	.270	.306	.056	.391	0.0%	31.7%	.254	-2.0	54	0.3

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

Postseason Michael Lorenzen's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	L	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2024 Post	KC	ALDS	2	2.1	1	3	1	1	3	3.86	1.71	11.6
2023 Post	PHI	Postseason total	2	2.2	0	2	0	2	1	0.00	1.50	3.4
		NLDS	1	1.0	0	1	0	1	0	0.00	2.00	0.0
		NLCS	1	1.2	0	1	0	1	1	0.00	1.20	5.4
2020 Post	CIN	Wild Card	2	2.2	0	2	0	0	6	0.00	0.75	20.3
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	6	7.2	1	7	1	3	10	1.17	1.30	11.7

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.

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	342	295	104	16	39	46	.353	.424	.624	.446	13.5%
vs RHB	277	254	82	7	15	44	.323	.366	.457	.361	15.9%

Pitch sequencing

What Michael Lorenzen 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.

Season


Changeup	20.4%	489	84.6	2,087	34.2%	28.0%	104	.260	.732
Sinker	20.2%	485	93.4	2,252	43.3%	9.2%	127	.441	1.095
Four-Seam Fastball	19.0%	455	94.0	2,403	46.4%	9.7%	98	.347	1.086
Cutter	14.3%	344	90.2	2,512	46.5%	13.3%	75	.373	1.042
Curveball	10.5%	253	82.7	2,533	42.3%	22.6%	50	.340	.966
Sweeper	7.9%	189	82.8	2,565	41.3%	33.3%	36	.250	.826
Slider	7.7%	184	86.3	2,541	40.8%	22.8%	59	.254	.664

Michael Lorenzen'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.