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Joe Musgrove

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #44

Born: December 4, 1992 in El Cajon, CA, United States
MLB debut: August 2, 2016
Drafted: 2011, round C-A
High school: Grossmont
Salary, 2024: $20M

dbWAR: 17.2
IP: 99.2
ERA: 3.88
FIP: 3.96
K/9: 9.1
FIP−: 97

Joe Musgrove was a starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2024 he struck out 101 batters over 99.2 innings across 19 appearances, 19 of them starts, going 6-5. His ERA of 3.88 was 4.8% lower than the league average of 4.08 — 9th of 16 on his team, and 268th of 541 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.96 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 28.3% of swings (13.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 5.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 24.6%. 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, 2024 regular season.

FIP3.96

K/99.1

WHIP1.17

WAR1.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2024	SD	19	19	99.2	6	5	0	94	43	101	23	3.88	3.96	1.17	9.1	2.1	95	97	1.3
2023	SD	17	17	97.1	10	3	0	90	33	97	21	3.05	3.52	1.14	9.0	1.9	70	81	2.0
2022	SD	30	30	181.0	10	7	0	154	59	184	42	2.93	3.59	1.08	9.1	2.1	74	90	2.8
2021	SD	32	31	181.1	11	9	0	142	64	203	54	3.18	3.70	1.08	10.1	2.7	74	87	3.3
2020	PIT	8	8	39.2	1	5	0	33	17	55	16	3.86	3.42	1.24	12.5	3.6	87	77	1.0
2019	PIT	32	31	170.1	11	12	0	168	84	157	39	4.44	3.82	1.22	8.3	2.1	99	85	3.3
2018	PIT	19	19	115.1	6	9	0	113	52	100	23	4.06	3.59	1.18	7.8	1.8	98	86	2.0
2017	HOU	38	15	109.1	7	8	2	117	58	98	28	4.77	4.38	1.33	8.1	2.3	110	101	0.7
2016	HOU	11	10	62.0	4	4	0	59	28	55	16	4.06	4.18	1.21	8.0	2.3	97	100	0.6

Batting Regular season

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


2021	SD	36	57	7	1	1	23	.137	.151	.176	.039	.241	1.8%	40.4%	.144	-8.3	-21	-0.1
2019	PIT	37	61	8	3	2	19	.157	.189	.235	.078	.250	3.3%	31.1%	.184	-7.2	6	0.1
2018	PIT	18	35	5	0	0	12	.161	.161	.194	.032	.263	0.0%	34.3%	.155	-4.6	-14	0.1
2017	HOU	3	5	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	20.0%	.000	-1.4	-128	-0.1
2016	HOU	1	1	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	0.0%	0.0%	—	—	—	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 Joe Musgrove'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
2026 Post	SD	Postseason total · through Oct 7	2	0	3.0	0	0	2	0	0	1	4	0.00	1.00	12.0
		Wild Card	1	0	1.0	0	0	2	0	0	1	2	0.00	3.00	18.0
		NLDS	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.00	0.00	9.0
2024 Post	SD	Wild Card	1	1	3.2	0	0	1	1	0	0	4	2.45	0.27	9.8
2022 Post	SD	Postseason total	3	3	18.2	1	1	15	6	1	6	18	2.89	1.13	8.7
		Wild Card	1	1	7.0	1	0	1	0	0	1	5	0.00	0.29	6.4
		NLDS	1	1	6.0	0	0	6	2	0	3	8	3.00	1.50	12.0
		NLCS	1	1	5.2	0	1	8	4	1	2	5	6.35	1.76	7.9
2017 Post	HOU	Postseason total	7	0	6.2	1	0	6	6	3	1	3	8.10	1.05	4.0
		ALDS	2	0	2.0	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	4.50	0.50	4.5
		ALCS	1	0	0.2	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	27.00	3.00	0.0
		World Series	4	0	4.0	1	0	3	3	2	1	2	6.75	1.00	4.5
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	13	4	32.0	2	1	24	13	4	8	29	3.66	1.00	8.2

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, 2024. 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	177	160	36	3	12	44	.225	.288	.331	.277	24.9%
vs RHB	233	215	58	11	11	57	.270	.326	.484	.351	24.5%

Pitch sequencing

What Joe Musgrove 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	23.0%	364	93.0	2,651	48.4%	23.5%	83	.253	.849
Curveball	22.5%	356	81.6	2,878	46.3%	32.8%	71	.197	.597
Cutter	20.4%	323	89.7	2,723	53.3%	25.0%	85	.294	.726
Sweeper	20.0%	317	82.1	2,869	49.5%	33.8%	78	.167	.588
Changeup	7.8%	123	87.1	2,114	34.1%	36.9%	34	.353	.996
Sinker	6.0%	95	92.6	2,508	46.3%	17.2%	27	.333	.713

Joe Musgrove'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.