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James Paxton

Los Angeles Dodgers National League West

Age: 36
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 212 lb

Born: November 6, 1988 in Ladner, BC, Canada
MLB debut: September 7, 2013
Drafted: 2009, round C-A
College: Kentucky
High school: Delta Secondary
Salary, 2024: $7M

dbWAR: 17.3
IP: 100.1
ERA: 4.40
FIP: 4.79
K/9: 6.5
FIP−: 117

James Paxton was a starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2024 he struck out 73 batters over 100.1 innings across 21 appearances, 21 of them starts, going 9-3. His ERA of 4.40 was 7.8% higher than the league average of 4.08 — 14th of 21 on his team, and 343rd of 541 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.79 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 21.1% of swings (10.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.7%. 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, 2024 regular season.

FIP4.79

K/96.5

WHIP1.45

WAR.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2024	LAD/BOS	21	21	100.1	9	3	95	49	73	50	4.40	4.79	1.45	6.5	4.5	108	117	0.3
2023	BOS	19	19	96.0	7	5	93	48	101	33	4.50	4.68	1.31	9.5	3.1	104	108	0.9
2021	SEA	1	1	1.1	0	0	0	1	2	1	6.75	2.42	0.75	13.5	6.8	158	57	0.0
2020	NYY	5	5	20.1	1	1	23	15	26	7	6.64	4.37	1.48	11.5	3.1	149	98	0.3
2019	NYY	29	29	150.2	15	6	138	64	186	55	3.82	3.86	1.28	11.1	3.3	85	86	2.7
2018	SEA	28	28	160.1	11	6	134	67	208	42	3.76	3.24	1.10	11.7	2.4	91	78	3.5
2017	SEA	24	24	136.0	12	5	113	45	156	37	2.98	2.61	1.10	10.3	2.4	68	60	4.2
2016	SEA	20	20	121.0	6	7	134	51	117	24	3.79	2.80	1.31	8.7	1.8	91	67	3.3
2015	SEA	13	13	67.0	3	4	67	29	56	29	3.90	4.31	1.43	7.5	3.9	98	109	0.4
2014	SEA	13	13	74.0	6	4	60	25	59	29	3.04	3.28	1.20	7.2	3.5	81	88	1.2
2013	SEA	4	4	24.0	3	0	15	4	21	7	1.50	3.26	0.92	7.9	2.6	39	84	0.5

Batting Regular season

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


2019	NYY	3	8	1	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	62.5%	.000	-2.2	-126	-0.1
2016	SEA	2	4	0	1	3	.000	.250	.000	.000	—	25.0%	75.0%	.174	-0.5	0	0.0
2015	SEA	1	2	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-127	-0.0
2014	SEA	1	2	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-128	-0.0
2013	SEA	1	2	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.000	—	50.0%	50.0%	.352	+0.1	125	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

Postseason James Paxton's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2019 Post	NYY	Postseason total	3	3	13.0	1	13	5	2	7	20	3.46	1.54	13.8
		ALDS	1	1	4.2	0	5	3	2	1	8	5.79	1.29	15.4
		ALCS	2	2	8.1	1	8	2	0	6	12	2.16	1.68	13.0

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.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2024. 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	74	69	18	1	4	13	.261	.301	.348	.288	17.6%
vs RHB	363	310	77	11	46	60	.248	.343	.416	.335	16.5%

Pitch sequencing

What James Paxton throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Four-seamKnuckle curveChangeupSinkerCutter

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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	54.3%	928	93.2	2,089	44.5%	14.9%	215	.265	.805
Knuckle Curve	30.3%	517	80.8	1,938	45.1%	36.2%	100	.200	.536
Changeup	6.6%	112	82.6	1,995	25.9%	32.6%	24	.250	.655
Sinker	5.7%	98	92.5	2,053	42.9%	4.3%	27	.296	.795
Cutter	3.1%	53	84.0	1,959	45.3%	13.0%	13	—	—

James Paxton'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.