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Anthony Banda

Age: 33
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 221 lb
Number: #43

Born: August 10, 1993 in Corpus Christi, TX, United States
MLB debut: July 22, 2017
Drafted: 2012, round 10
College: San Jacinto JC
High school: Sinton
Salary, 2026: $1.63M

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dbWAR: 1.5
IP: 34.1
ERA: 4.46
FIP: 4.33
K/9: 8.7
FIP−: 103

Anthony Banda is a relief pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. In 2026 he struck out 33 batters over 34.1 innings across 39 appearances, going 2-0. His ERA of 4.46 was 6.6% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 10th of 19 on his team, and 338th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.33 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 26.7% of swings (12.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.2%. His 0.1 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.

FIP4.33

K/98.7

WHIP1.34

WAR.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2026	MIN	39	0	34.1	2	0	2	31	17	33	15	4.46	4.33	1.34	8.7	3.9	107	103	0.1
2025	LAD	71	1	65.0	5	1	0	45	23	61	34	3.18	4.52	1.22	8.4	4.7	77	109	0.2
2024	LAD	48	2	49.2	3	2	2	44	17	50	18	3.08	3.67	1.25	9.1	3.3	76	90	0.5
2023	WSH	10	0	7.0	0	0	0	9	5	6	5	6.43	5.97	2.00	7.7	6.4	148	138	-0.1
2022	PIT/TOR/NYY	32	1	26.2	1	1	0	43	20	30	13	6.75	4.50	2.10	10.1	4.4	170	113	0.0
2021	PIT/NYM	30	0	33.2	2	2	0	39	16	32	13	4.28	4.92	1.54	8.6	3.5	100	115	-0.0
2020	TB	4	0	7.0	1	0	1	10	8	4	5	10.29	6.91	2.14	5.1	6.4	231	155	-0.2
2019	TB	3	0	4.0	0	0	0	6	3	2	0	6.75	2.21	1.50	4.5	0.0	150	49	0.1
2018	TB	3	1	14.2	1	0	0	12	6	10	3	3.68	3.30	1.02	6.1	1.8	89	79	0.3
2017	AZ	8	4	25.2	2	3	0	26	17	25	10	5.96	3.24	1.40	8.8	3.5	137	74	0.6

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2021	NYM	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-127	0.0
2017	AZ	4	6	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.6	-115	-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 Anthony Banda's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2025 Post	LAD	Postseason total	7	5.2	7	6	2	2	3	9.53	1.59	4.8
		NLDS	1	1.0	0	0	0	1	2	0.00	1.00	18.0
		NLCS	2	1.2	1	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.60	5.4
		World Series	4	3.0	6	6	2	1	0	18.00	2.33	0.0
2024 Post	LAD	Postseason total	10	8.0	6	1	0	6	11	1.13	1.50	12.4
		NLDS	3	3.0	2	0	0	1	4	0.00	1.00	12.0
		NLCS	3	2.2	2	1	0	1	3	3.38	1.13	10.1
		World Series	4	2.1	2	0	0	4	4	0.00	2.57	15.4
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	17	13.2	13	7	2	8	14	4.61	1.54	9.2

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, 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	68	58	14	1	7	16	.241	.343	.345	.318	23.5%
vs RHB	88	74	17	2	8	17	.230	.352	.446	.352	19.3%

Pitch sequencing

What Anthony Banda 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	41.0%	249	84.5	2,116	42.6%	39.8%	61	.197	.613
Sinker	26.6%	162	94.7	2,078	50.6%	14.9%	35	.314	.964
Four-Seam Fastball	26.0%	158	94.6	2,138	39.9%	15.7%	30	.267	.871
Changeup	6.4%	39	87.3	1,370	38.5%	37.5%	7	—	—

Anthony Banda'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.

Craig KimbrelTB

ERA: 4.50
FIP: 4.12
SO: 40
WAR: 0.3

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ERA: 4.08
FIP: 3.95
SO: 64
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FIP: 4.00
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FIP: 3.68
SO: 60
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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.