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Jakob Junis
- Age
- 34
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 238 lb
- Number
- #16
- Born
- September 16, 1992 in Jacksonville, AR, United States
- MLB debut
- April 12, 2017
- Drafted
- 2011, round 29
- High school
- Rock Falls
- Salary, 2026
- $2.75M
- dbWAR
- 8.6 Regular season, 14 season(s)
- IP
- 54.1
- ERA
- 3.64
- FIP
- 3.93
- K/9
- 6.3
- FIP−
- 94 100 = avg
Jakob Junis is a relief pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2026 he struck out 38 batters over 54.1 innings across 53 appearances, going 1-3. His ERA of 3.64 was 12.8% lower than the league average of 4.18 — the third best on his team, and 190th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.93 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 18.3% of swings (8.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.2%. His 0.5 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.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | TEX | 53 | 1 | 54.1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 51 | 22 | 38 | 18 | 3.64 | 3.93 | 1.27 | 6.3 | 3.0 | 87 | 94 | 0.5 | |
| 2025 | CLE | 57 | 0 | 66.2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 64 | 22 | 55 | 18 | 2.97 | 3.45 | 1.23 | 7.4 | 2.4 | 71 | 83 | 1.0 | |
| 2024 | CIN/MIL | 24 | 6 | 67.0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 49 | 20 | 51 | 8 | 2.69 | 3.69 | 0.85 | 6.9 | 1.1 | 66 | 90 | 0.9 | |
| 2023 | SF | 40 | 4 | 86.0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 90 | 37 | 96 | 21 | 3.87 | 3.74 | 1.29 | 10.0 | 2.2 | 89 | 86 | 1.1 | |
| 2022 | SF | 23 | 17 | 112.0 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 120 | 55 | 98 | 25 | 4.42 | 3.65 | 1.29 | 7.9 | 2.0 | 111 | 92 | 1.6 | |
| 2021 | KC | 16 | 6 | 39.1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 43 | 23 | 41 | 12 | 5.26 | 4.31 | 1.40 | 9.4 | 2.7 | 123 | 101 | 0.4 | |
| 2020 | KC | 8 | 6 | 25.1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 18 | 19 | 6 | 6.39 | 6.23 | 1.62 | 6.8 | 2.1 | 144 | 140 | -0.2 | |
| 2019 | KC | 31 | 31 | 175.1 | 9 | 14 | 0 | 192 | 102 | 164 | 58 | 5.24 | 4.82 | 1.43 | 8.4 | 3.0 | 116 | 107 | 1.6 | |
| 2018 | KC | 30 | 30 | 177.0 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 182 | 86 | 164 | 43 | 4.37 | 4.64 | 1.27 | 8.3 | 2.2 | 105 | 112 | 1.2 | |
| 2017 | KC | 20 | 16 | 98.1 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 101 | 47 | 80 | 25 | 4.30 | 4.55 | 1.28 | 7.3 | 2.3 | 99 | 104 | 0.8 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Post | CLE | Wild Card | 2 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.60 | 0.0 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 119 | 109 | 28 | 1 | 9 | 17 | .257 | .319 | .349 | .295 | 14.3% |
| vs RHB | 115 | 102 | 23 | 3 | 9 | 21 | .225 | .313 | .324 | .290 | 18.3% |
Pitch sequencing
What Jakob Junis 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.
| Sweeper | 360 | 82.1 | 2,451 | 47.8% | 18.6% | 86 | .209 | .535 | |
| Changeup | 171 | 86.8 | 1,336 | 34.5% | 18.9% | 51 | .196 | .501 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 163 | 92.3 | 2,116 | 49.7% | 27.3% | 28 | .357 | 1.038 | |
| Sinker | 151 | 91.9 | 2,108 | 49.7% | 9.2% | 46 | .283 | .731 |
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