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Jameson Taillon

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #56

Born: November 18, 1991 in Lakeland, FL, United States
MLB debut: June 8, 2016
Drafted: 2010, round 1
High school: The Woodlands
Salary, 2026: $18M

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dbWAR: 15.3
IP: 86.0
ERA: 5.65
FIP: 6.60
K/9: 8.0
FIP−: 158

Jameson Taillon is a starting pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2026 he struck out 76 batters over 86.0 innings across 18 appearances, 18 of them starts, going 2-6. His ERA of 5.65 was 35.2% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 14th of 16 on his team, and 461st of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.60 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 26.5% of swings (12.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 20.5%. His -1.3 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.

FIP6.60

K/98.0

WHIP1.36

WAR-1.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2026	CHC/TOR	18	18	86.0	2	6	0	85	54	76	32	5.65	6.60	1.36	8.0	3.3	135	158	-1.3
2025	CHC	23	23	129.2	11	7	0	110	53	98	27	3.68	4.65	1.06	6.8	1.9	88	112	0.8
2024	CHC	28	28	165.1	12	8	0	154	60	125	33	3.27	3.92	1.13	6.8	1.8	80	96	2.0
2023	CHC	30	29	154.1	8	10	1	156	83	140	41	4.84	4.61	1.28	8.2	2.4	112	106	1.4
2022	NYY	32	32	177.1	14	5	0	168	77	151	32	3.91	3.94	1.13	7.7	1.6	98	99	2.2
2021	NYY	29	29	144.1	8	6	0	130	69	140	44	4.30	4.43	1.21	8.7	2.7	101	104	1.5
2019	PIT	7	7	37.1	2	3	0	34	17	30	8	4.10	3.80	1.13	7.2	1.9	91	84	0.7
2018	PIT	32	32	191.0	14	10	0	179	68	179	46	3.20	3.46	1.18	8.4	2.2	77	83	3.7
2017	PIT	25	25	133.2	8	7	0	152	66	125	46	4.44	3.48	1.48	8.4	3.1	102	80	2.9
2016	PIT	18	18	104.0	5	4	0	99	39	85	17	3.38	3.71	1.12	7.4	1.5	81	89	1.8

Batting Regular season

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


2021	NYY	1	2	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.000	.000	50.0%	0.0%	.362	+0.1	132	0.0
2019	PIT	5	11	2	0	0	3	.250	.250	.250	.000	.400	0.0%	27.3%	.218	-1.0	29	0.1
2018	PIT	29	63	4	3	1	22	.070	.086	.088	.018	.114	1.6%	34.9%	.080	-12.2	-68	-0.3
2017	PIT	23	43	6	0	0	15	.158	.158	.158	.000	.261	0.0%	34.9%	.138	-6.7	-28	-0.0
2016	PIT	17	36	3	2	0	17	.094	.094	.094	.000	.200	0.0%	47.2%	.082	-6.9	-62	-0.2

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 Jameson Taillon's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	L	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2025 Post	CHC	Postseason total	2	2	8.0	0	7	2	1	7	2.25	1.00	7.9
		Wild Card	1	1	4.0	0	2	0	0	4	0.00	0.50	9.0
		NLDS	1	1	4.0	0	5	2	1	3	4.50	1.50	6.8
2022 Post	NYY	Postseason total	2	1	4.1	1	7	3	3	0	6.23	2.31	0.0
		ALDS	1	0	0.0	1	3	2	0	0	—	—	—
		ALCS	1	1	4.1	0	4	1	3	0	2.08	1.62	0.0
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	4	3	12.1	1	14	5	4	7	3.65	1.46	5.1

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	193	169	42	14	24	36	.249	.342	.538	.380	18.7%
vs RHB	177	167	43	13	8	40	.257	.299	.515	.347	22.6%

Pitch sequencing

What Jameson Taillon 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	27.4%	395	91.8	2,341	47.8%	22.7%	77	.325	1.082
Cutter	19.1%	275	86.3	2,524	47.3%	26.2%	56	.286	1.099
Sweeper	16.3%	235	80.2	2,748	49.4%	33.8%	77	.143	.437
Changeup	15.7%	227	84.5	1,827	37.0%	30.8%	63	.254	.753
Curveball	12.0%	173	79.4	2,559	37.6%	23.7%	30	.200	.667
Sinker	9.6%	138	91.9	2,251	40.6%	15.3%	34	.324	1.086

Jameson Taillon'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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FIP: 6.03
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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.