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Kevin Gausman

Age: 35
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #12

Born: January 6, 1991 in Centennial, CO, United States
MLB debut: May 23, 2013
Drafted: 2012, round 1
College: Louisiana State
High school: Grandview
Salary, 2026: $23M

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dbWAR: 37.8
IP: 177.2
ERA: 4.51
FIP: 3.74
K/9: 9.3
FIP−: 90

Kevin Gausman is a starting pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2026 he struck out 184 batters over 177.2 innings across 32 appearances, 32 of them starts, going 9-12. His ERA of 4.51 was 7.8% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 11th of 16 on his team, and 347th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.74 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 27.7% of swings (13.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 24.5%. His 3.1 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.

FIP3.74

K/99.3

WHIP1.27

WAR3.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2026	TOR/CHC	32	32	177.2	9	12	179	89	184	47	4.51	3.74	1.27	9.3	2.4	108	90	3.1
2025	TOR	32	32	193.0	10	11	155	77	189	50	3.59	3.41	1.06	8.8	2.3	86	82	4.0
2024	TOR	31	31	181.0	14	11	165	77	162	56	3.83	3.77	1.22	8.1	2.8	94	93	2.9
2023	TOR	31	31	185.0	12	9	163	65	237	55	3.16	2.97	1.18	11.5	2.7	73	69	5.0
2022	TOR	31	31	174.2	12	10	188	65	205	28	3.35	2.38	1.24	10.6	1.4	84	60	5.4
2021	SF	33	33	192.0	14	6	150	60	227	50	2.81	3.00	1.04	10.6	2.3	66	70	5.1
2020	SF	12	10	59.2	3	3	50	24	79	16	3.62	3.09	1.11	11.9	2.4	81	69	1.6
2019	ATL/CIN	31	17	102.1	3	9	113	65	114	32	5.72	3.98	1.42	10.0	2.8	127	88	1.6
2018	BAL/ATL	31	31	183.2	10	11	189	80	148	50	3.92	4.32	1.30	7.3	2.5	94	104	1.8
2017	BAL	34	34	186.2	11	12	208	97	179	71	4.68	4.48	1.49	8.6	3.4	107	103	2.0
2016	BAL	30	30	179.2	9	12	183	72	174	47	3.61	4.10	1.28	8.7	2.4	86	98	2.2
2015	BAL	25	17	112.1	4	7	109	53	103	29	4.25	4.10	1.23	8.3	2.3	107	103	1.1
2014	BAL	20	20	113.1	7	7	111	45	88	38	3.57	3.41	1.31	7.0	3.0	96	91	1.7
2013	BAL	20	5	47.2	3	5	51	30	49	13	5.66	3.99	1.34	9.3	2.5	147	103	0.3

Batting Regular season

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


2021	SF	31	62	10	4	2	31	.185	.211	.185	.000	.417	3.2%	50.0%	.179	-7.2	4	0.2
2019	ATL	14	27	1	0	0	18	.037	.037	.037	.000	.111	0.0%	66.7%	.032	-6.7	-97	-0.3
2018	ATL/BAL	12	25	1	0	4	11	.048	.200	.048	.000	.100	16.0%	44.0%	.148	-3.4	-17	0.0
2017	BAL	2	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-121	-0.0
2016	BAL	2	3	0	0	1	2	.000	.333	.000	.000	—	33.3%	66.7%	.232	-0.2	40	0.0
2014	BAL	2	3	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	66.7%	.000	-0.7	-124	-0.0
2013	BAL	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.2	-120	-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 Kevin Gausman's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2026 Post	CHC	Wild Card · through Sep 30	1	1	3.1	0	1	5	3	0	0	1	8.10	1.50	2.7
2025 Post	TOR	Postseason total	6	5	30.2	2	3	17	10	4	11	26	2.93	0.91	7.6
		ALDS	1	1	5.2	1	0	4	1	0	2	3	1.59	1.06	4.8
		ALCS	3	2	12.1	1	1	6	3	2	7	9	2.19	1.05	6.6
		World Series	2	2	12.2	0	2	7	6	2	2	14	4.26	0.71	9.9
2023 Post	TOR	Wild Card	1	1	4.0	0	1	3	3	2	3	5	6.75	1.50	11.3
2022 Post	TOR	Wild Card	1	1	5.2	0	0	5	4	0	1	7	6.35	1.06	11.1
2021 Post	SF	NLDS	2	1	6.0	0	1	4	4	0	3	7	6.00	1.17	10.5
2018 Post	ATL	NLDS	1	0	2.0	0	0	2	2	1	2	4	9.00	2.00	18.0
2014 Post	BAL	Postseason total	3	0	8.0	0	0	4	1	0	2	7	1.13	0.75	7.9
		ALDS	1	0	3.2	0	0	3	1	0	1	5	2.45	1.09	12.3
		ALCS	2	0	4.1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	0.00	0.46	4.2
Career		Postseason total · 7 Octobers	15	9	59.2	2	6	40	27	7	22	57	4.07	1.04	8.6

Postseason batting

Postseason Kevin Gausman's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2021 Post	SF	NLDS	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

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	424	386	97	11	31	97	.251	.304	.389	.305	22.9%
vs RHB	326	305	82	15	16	87	.269	.307	.459	.332	26.7%

Pitch sequencing

What Kevin Gausman 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


Four-Seam Fastball	50.7%	1,522	93.8	2,293	56.3%	14.9%	383	.287	.780
Splitter	40.1%	1,204	84.0	1,563	42.0%	42.2%	271	.207	.584
Slider	8.4%	252	84.0	2,274	35.3%	36.2%	37	.324	1.132
Sweeper	0.6%	18	79.0	2,449	50.0%	33.3%	2	—	—

Kevin Gausman'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.