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Grant Dayton

Age
34
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 2"
Weight
210 lb
Born
November 25, 1987 in Huntsville, AL, United States
MLB debut
July 22, 2016

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dbWAR
.5
Regular season, 6 season(s)
IP
13.0
ERA
6.23
FIP
4.40
K/9
9.7
FIP−
103
100 = avg

Grant Dayton was a relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2021 he struck out 14 batters over 13.0 innings across 13 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 6.23 was 46.1% higher than the league average of 4.27. Stripping out defence, his 4.40 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 26.7% of swings (12.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 23.0%. His 0.1 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, 2021 regular season.

FIP4.40
K/99.7
WHIP1.62
WAR.1

WAR by season

0.50.1-0.21617192021

Pitching Regular season

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

Trend
2021ATL13013.00001591466.234.401.629.74.21461030.1
2020ATL18027.121022732112.304.071.2110.53.652910.3
2019ATL14012.00101241443.006.211.3310.53.067138-0.2
2017LAD29023.2110191320124.945.741.317.64.6113132-0.2
2016LAD25026.10101463962.052.960.7613.32.149710.5

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2016LAD11000001.000.000.000.000—0.0%100.0%.000-0.3-124-0.0—

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 Grant Dayton's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2020 PostATLNLCS102.00008831236.004.509.0
2016 PostLADPostseason total703.1000631268.102.4016.2
NLDS401.20005312416.204.2021.6
NLCS301.2000100020.000.6010.8
CareerPostseason total · 2 Octobers805.1000141143818.563.1913.5

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.

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2021. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB19154134.267.368.600.39621.1%
vs RHB4338111410.289.349.474.33423.3%

Pitch sequencing

What Grant Dayton 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.

Four-Seam Fastball64.7%16391.52,18749.1%22.0%29.3791.149
Curveball34.5%8777.22,32737.9%37.8%23.174.513
Grant Dayton'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.