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Scott Barlow

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #58

Born: December 18, 1992 in New London, CT, United States
MLB debut: April 30, 2018
Drafted: 2011, round 6
High school: Golden Valley
Salary, 2026: $2M

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dbWAR: 5.8
IP: 33.1
ERA: 6.48
FIP: 6.43
K/9: 7.8
FIP−: 154

Scott Barlow is a relief pitcher for the Athletics. In 2026 he struck out 29 batters over 33.1 innings across 36 appearances, going 2-0. His ERA of 6.48 was 55.0% higher than the league average of 4.18 — the second worst on his team, and 508th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.43 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 33.1% of swings (14.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 12.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.1%. His -0.6 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.

FIP6.43

K/97.8

WHIP1.35

WAR-.6

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2026	ATH	36	0	33.1	2	0	2	26	24	29	19	6.48	6.43	1.35	7.8	5.1	155	154	-0.6
2025	CIN	75	1	68.1	6	3	1	50	32	75	45	4.21	4.70	1.39	9.9	5.9	101	113	-0.0
2024	CLE	63	0	55.0	3	3	2	44	26	68	31	4.25	4.02	1.36	11.1	5.1	104	99	0.4
2023	KC/SD	63	0	68.0	2	6	13	61	33	79	34	4.37	3.42	1.40	10.5	4.5	101	79	1.2
2022	KC	69	0	74.1	7	4	24	52	18	77	22	2.18	3.62	1.00	9.3	2.7	55	91	0.8
2021	KC	71	0	74.1	5	3	16	61	20	91	28	2.42	2.63	1.20	11.0	3.4	57	62	1.9
2020	KC	32	0	30.0	2	1	2	27	14	39	9	4.20	3.42	1.20	11.7	2.7	94	77	0.5
2019	KC	61	0	70.1	3	3	1	64	33	92	37	4.22	3.41	1.44	11.8	4.7	94	76	1.3
2018	KC	6	0	15.0	1	1	0	16	6	15	3	3.60	3.49	1.27	9.0	1.8	87	84	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 Scott Barlow'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	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2025 Post	CIN	Wild Card	1	0	1.2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.00	0.00	21.6

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	70	57	12	3	10	14	.211	.343	.404	.331	20.0%
vs RHB	83	67	14	4	10	15	.209	.349	.463	.355	18.1%

Pitch sequencing

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

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SweeperCurveballSinkerFour-seamSlider

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Sweeper	35.3%	206	79.2	2,394	43.7%	32.9%	35	.229	.700
Curveball	34.1%	199	76.2	2,507	46.7%	44.2%	52	.077	.280
Sinker	13.2%	77	89.1	2,145	32.5%	17.9%	15	.467	1.619
Four-Seam Fastball	13.0%	76	89.0	2,320	46.1%	10.7%	20	.350	1.419
Slider	3.9%	23	82.5	2,459	21.7%	16.7%	3	—	—

Scott Barlow'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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Similar players

Nearest 2026 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Ron MarinaccioSD

ERA: 6.09
FIP: 5.69
SO: 48
WAR: -0.7

Alex LangeKC

ERA: 6.75
FIP: 5.87
SO: 60
WAR: -0.7

Matt GageSF

ERA: 5.60
FIP: 6.32
SO: 22
WAR: -0.5

Jimmy HergetCOL

ERA: 5.70
FIP: 5.40
SO: 47
WAR: -0.3

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.