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Kyle Freeland

Age: 33
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 202 lb
Number: #21

Born: May 14, 1993 in Denver, CO, United States
MLB debut: April 7, 2017
Drafted: 2014, round 1
College: Evansville
High school: Thomas Jefferson
Salary, 2026: $16M

dbWAR: 13.7
IP: 131.1
ERA: 6.58
FIP: 4.96
K/9: 7.3
FIP−: 119

Kyle Freeland is a starting pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. In 2026 he struck out 106 batters over 131.1 innings across 26 appearances, 25 of them starts, going 4-11. His ERA of 6.58 is 57.5% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 18th of 21 on his team, and 515th of 538 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.96 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 22.2% of swings (11.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 4.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.9%. His 0.5 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.

FIP4.96

K/97.3

WHIP1.52

WAR.5

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	COL	26	25	131.1	4	11	170	96	106	29	6.58	4.96	1.52	7.3	2.0	157	119	0.5
2025	COL	31	31	162.2	5	17	193	90	124	38	4.98	4.18	1.42	6.9	2.1	120	101	2.4
2024	COL	21	21	113.1	5	8	134	66	85	26	5.24	4.90	1.41	6.8	2.1	128	120	0.4
2023	COL	29	29	155.2	6	14	187	87	94	42	5.03	5.30	1.47	5.4	2.4	116	122	0.6
2022	COL	31	31	174.2	9	11	193	88	131	53	4.53	4.21	1.41	6.8	2.7	114	106	2.2
2021	COL	23	23	120.2	7	8	133	58	105	38	4.33	4.63	1.42	7.8	2.8	101	109	1.2
2020	COL	13	13	70.2	2	3	77	34	46	23	4.33	4.65	1.42	5.9	2.9	97	104	0.8
2019	COL	22	22	104.1	3	11	126	78	79	39	6.73	5.99	1.58	6.8	3.4	149	133	-0.1
2018	COL	33	33	202.1	17	7	182	64	173	70	2.85	3.67	1.25	7.7	3.1	69	88	3.9
2017	COL	33	28	156.0	11	11	169	71	107	63	4.10	4.57	1.49	6.2	3.6	94	105	1.7

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	COL	23	40	6	0	4	2	17	.182	.222	.212	.030	.353	5.0%	42.5%	.197	-4.0	15	0.2
2019	COL	18	31	2	0	0	3	15	.087	.192	.087	.000	.250	9.7%	48.4%	.149	-4.6	-16	-0.0
2018	COL	30	71	6	0	2	2	40	.092	.119	.123	.031	.240	2.8%	56.3%	.112	-11.9	-40	-0.2
2017	COL	28	56	8	1	2	1	30	.154	.170	.231	.077	.333	1.8%	53.6%	.174	-7.0	-3	0.1

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	160	150	42	3	5	32	.280	.313	.413	.317	20.0%
vs RHB	433	405	128	24	24	74	.316	.358	.595	.407	17.1%

Pitch sequencing

What Kyle Freeland 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	23.5%	500	91.3	2,379	46.8%	13.2%	112	.357	1.122
Knuckle Curve	21.9%	466	82.4	2,364	45.1%	33.5%	128	.281	.881
Cutter	21.4%	454	87.6	2,373	48.9%	18.4%	111	.342	.942
Changeup	13.5%	286	86.2	1,649	37.1%	21.7%	86	.302	.783
Sweeper	10.0%	213	82.7	2,321	50.2%	32.0%	70	.157	.486
Sinker	9.7%	206	91.1	2,319	46.1%	13.4%	49	.388	1.024

Kyle Freeland'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.

Luis CastilloSEA

ERA: 5.85
FIP: 5.05
SO: 112
WAR: -0.0

Tanner GordonCOL

ERA: 6.68
FIP: 4.85
SO: 85
WAR: 0.3

Zac GallenAZ

ERA: 6.07
FIP: 5.34
SO: 64
WAR: -0.2

Mike BurrowsHOU

ERA: 5.99
FIP: 5.64
SO: 75
WAR: -0.5

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.