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Joe Ross

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 243 lb
Number: #41

Born: May 21, 1993 in Berkeley, CA, United States
MLB debut: June 6, 2015
Drafted: 2011, round 1
High school: Bishop O'Dowd

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dbWAR: 6.4
IP: 11.2
ERA: 9.26
FIP: 6.79
K/9: 5.4
FIP−: 162

Joe Ross is a relief pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2026 he struck out 7 batters over 11.2 innings across 8 appearances, going 0-1. His ERA of 9.26 was 121.4% higher than the league average of 4.18. Stripping out defence, his 6.79 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 30.0% of swings (16.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.3%. His -0.3 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, 2026 regular season.

FIP6.79

K/95.4

WHIP1.89

WAR-.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2026	TEX/AZ	8	0	11.2	0	1	16	12	7	6	9.26	6.79	1.89	5.4	4.6	221	162	-0.3
2025	PHI	37	1	51.0	2	1	57	29	39	18	5.12	4.88	1.47	6.9	3.2	123	117	-0.1
2024	MIL	25	10	74.0	3	6	72	31	66	29	3.77	3.83	1.36	8.0	3.5	92	94	0.8
2021	WSH	20	19	108.0	5	9	98	50	109	34	4.17	4.36	1.22	9.1	2.8	98	102	1.1
2019	WSH	27	9	64.0	4	4	74	39	57	33	5.48	4.59	1.67	8.0	4.6	122	102	0.5
2018	WSH	3	3	16.0	0	2	17	9	7	4	5.06	5.85	1.31	3.9	2.3	122	141	-0.1
2017	WSH	13	13	73.2	5	3	88	41	68	20	5.01	4.99	1.47	8.3	2.4	115	115	0.4
2016	WSH	19	19	105.0	7	5	108	40	93	29	3.43	3.49	1.30	8.0	2.5	82	83	2.1
2015	WSH	16	13	76.2	5	5	64	31	69	21	3.64	3.42	1.11	8.1	2.5	92	86	1.3

Batting Regular season

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


2021	WSH	20	39	8	3	1	14	.250	.294	.250	.000	.444	2.6%	35.9%	.250	-2.2	54	0.4
2019	WSH	11	20	2	0	1	10	.105	.150	.105	.000	.222	5.0%	50.0%	.123	-3.4	-35	-0.1
2018	WSH	3	5	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	60.0%	.000	-1.3	-116	-0.1
2017	WSH	15	37	6	1	1	16	.182	.206	.242	.061	.353	2.7%	43.2%	.198	-3.9	14	0.1
2016	WSH	20	44	10	1	3	15	.244	.295	.293	.049	.385	6.8%	34.1%	.265	-2.0	62	0.4
2015	WSH	14	30	3	0	0	11	.111	.143	.111	.000	.188	0.0%	36.7%	.121	-4.7	-38	-0.1

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 Ross'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
2024 Post	MIL	Wild Card	2	0	1.2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.00	0.60	0.0
2019 Post	WSH	World Series	2	1	7.0	0	1	6	4	2	2	1	5.14	1.14	1.3
2016 Post	WSH	NLDS	1	1	2.2	0	0	3	4	1	2	3	13.50	1.88	10.1
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	5	2	11.1	1	1	9	8	3	5	4	6.35	1.24	3.2

Postseason batting

Postseason Joe Ross's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2019 Post	WSH	World Series	1	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2016 Post	WSH	NLDS	1	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	2	2	2	2	.000	.000	.000	.000

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	30	28	5	0	2	4	.179	.233	.250	.221	13.3%
vs RHB	27	23	11	3	4	3	.478	.556	.913	.610	11.1%

Pitch sequencing

What Joe Ross 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


Slider	28.8%	59	89.4	1,934	35.6%	23.5%	19	.316	1.093
Sinker	24.4%	50	95.5	2,141	44.0%	16.0%	9	—	—
Splitter	20.5%	42	90.4	1,478	42.9%	47.8%	7	—	—
Four-Seam Fastball	20.0%	41	95.2	2,154	34.1%	33.3%	12	—	—
Curveball	6.3%	13	83.9	2,099	46.2%	42.9%	4	—	—

Joe Ross'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.