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Chris Bassitt

Age: 37
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #40

Born: February 22, 1989 in Toledo, OH, United States
MLB debut: August 30, 2014
Drafted: 2011, round 16
College: Akron
High school: Genoa Area
Salary, 2026: $18.5M

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dbWAR: 19.1
IP: 102.0
ERA: 4.59
FIP: 4.31
K/9: 6.5
FIP−: 103

Chris Bassitt is a starting pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2026 he struck out 74 batters over 102.0 innings across 20 appearances, 18 of them starts, going 9-5. His ERA of 4.59 was 9.7% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 14th of 17 on his team, and 355th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.31 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 20.9% of swings (9.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.1%. His 1.0 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.

FIP4.31

K/96.5

WHIP1.55

WAR1.0

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2026	BAL	20	18	102.0	9	5	120	52	74	38	4.59	4.31	1.55	6.5	3.4	110	103	1.0
2025	TOR	32	31	170.1	11	9	174	75	166	52	3.96	4.01	1.33	8.8	2.7	95	96	2.4
2024	TOR	31	31	171.0	10	14	180	79	168	70	4.16	4.08	1.46	8.8	3.7	102	100	2.1
2023	TOR	33	33	200.0	16	8	176	80	186	59	3.60	4.28	1.18	8.4	2.7	83	99	2.4
2022	NYM	30	30	181.2	15	9	159	69	167	49	3.42	3.66	1.14	8.3	2.4	86	92	2.7
2021	OAK	27	27	157.1	12	4	127	55	159	39	3.15	3.34	1.06	9.1	2.2	74	78	3.5
2020	OAK	11	11	63.0	5	2	56	16	55	17	2.29	3.59	1.16	7.9	2.4	51	81	1.4
2019	OAK	28	25	144.0	10	5	125	61	141	47	3.81	4.40	1.19	8.8	2.9	85	98	1.7
2018	OAK	11	7	47.2	2	3	40	16	41	19	3.02	3.98	1.24	7.7	3.6	73	96	0.5
2016	OAK	5	5	28.0	0	2	35	19	23	14	6.11	5.32	1.75	7.4	4.5	146	127	-0.1
2015	OAK	18	13	86.0	1	8	78	34	64	30	3.56	3.76	1.26	6.7	3.1	90	95	1.0
2014	CWS	6	5	29.2	1	1	34	13	21	13	3.94	3.33	1.58	6.4	3.9	105	89	0.5

Batting Regular season

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


2021	OAK	1	2	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-124	-0.0
2019	OAK	3	5	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	40.0%	.000	-1.4	-123	-0.1
2015	OAK	1	2	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-125	-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 Chris Bassitt'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
2025 Post	TOR	Postseason total	7	0	8.2	0	0	3	1	0	2	10	1.04	0.58	10.4
		ALCS	2	0	2.2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.00	0.00	10.1
		World Series	5	0	6.0	0	0	3	1	0	2	7	1.50	0.83	10.5
2022 Post	NYM	Wild Card	1	1	4.0	0	1	3	3	0	3	2	6.75	1.50	4.5
2020 Post	OAK	Postseason total	2	2	11.0	1	0	15	4	2	1	9	3.27	1.45	7.4
		Wild Card	1	1	7.0	1	0	6	1	0	1	5	1.29	1.00	6.4
		ALDS	1	1	4.0	0	0	9	3	2	0	4	6.75	2.25	9.0
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	10	3	23.2	1	1	21	8	2	6	21	3.04	1.14	8.0

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.

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	269	238	74	8	25	42	.311	.379	.475	.375	15.6%
vs RHB	191	171	46	2	13	32	.269	.340	.351	.315	16.8%

Pitch sequencing

What Chris Bassitt 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


Sinker	36.7%	636	92.3	2,116	46.1%	13.0%	173	.335	.837
Curveball	21.5%	372	71.3	2,328	44.1%	30.2%	90	.211	.630
Cutter	19.5%	338	90.0	2,155	43.8%	22.7%	64	.328	.903
Four-Seam Fastball	8.5%	147	92.4	2,152	40.8%	20.8%	33	.303	.937
Sweeper	6.1%	105	73.5	2,392	47.6%	32.6%	25	.200	.606
Changeup	4.8%	83	85.4	1,828	27.7%	25.9%	14	—	—
Slider	2.9%	50	81.1	2,451	30.0%	4.8%	12	—	—

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

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ERA: 5.17
FIP: 4.38
SO: 134
WAR: 1.9

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ERA: 4.03
FIP: 4.14
SO: 135
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ERA: 4.09
FIP: 4.17
SO: 74
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ERA: 3.51
FIP: 4.22
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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.