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Max Fried

Age: 32
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #54

Born: January 18, 1994 in Santa Monica, CA, United States
MLB debut: August 8, 2017
Drafted: 2012, round 1
High school: Harvard-Westlake
Salary, 2026: $14.5M

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dbWAR: 29.7
IP: 112.2
ERA: 2.80
FIP: 2.65
K/9: 8.3
FIP−: 63

Max Fried is a starting pitcher for the New York Yankees. In 2026 he struck out 104 batters over 112.2 innings across 20 appearances, 20 of them starts, going 5-5. His ERA of 2.80 was 33.1% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 7th of 17 on his team, and 70th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 2.65 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 25.0% of swings (11.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 24.0%. His 3.5 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 regular season.

FIP2.65

K/98.3

WHIP0.99

WAR3.5

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2026	NYY	20	20	112.2	5	5	79	35	104	33	2.80	2.65	0.99	8.3	2.6	67	63	3.5
2025	NYY	32	32	195.1	19	5	164	62	189	51	2.86	3.07	1.10	8.7	2.3	69	74	4.7
2024	ATL	29	29	174.1	11	10	146	63	166	57	3.25	3.33	1.16	8.6	2.9	80	82	3.6
2023	ATL	14	14	77.2	8	1	70	22	80	18	2.55	3.14	1.13	9.3	2.1	59	72	2.0
2022	ATL	30	30	185.1	14	7	156	51	170	32	2.48	2.70	1.01	8.3	1.6	62	68	5.0
2021	ATL	28	28	165.2	14	7	139	56	158	41	3.04	3.31	1.09	8.6	2.2	71	78	4.0
2020	ATL	11	11	56.0	7	0	42	14	50	19	2.25	3.10	1.09	8.0	3.1	51	70	1.6
2019	ATL	33	30	165.2	17	6	174	74	173	47	4.02	3.72	1.33	9.4	2.6	89	82	3.4
2018	ATL	14	5	33.2	1	4	26	11	44	20	2.94	3.67	1.37	11.8	5.3	71	88	0.5
2017	ATL	9	4	26.0	1	1	30	11	22	12	3.81	4.81	1.62	7.6	4.2	87	110	0.1

Batting Regular season

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


2021	ATL	31	67	15	5	4	18	.273	.322	.327	.055	.405	6.0%	26.9%	.291	-1.5	79	0.8
2019	ATL	34	65	11	4	5	16	.196	.262	.268	.071	.275	7.7%	24.6%	.238	-4.7	43	0.5
2018	ATL	5	8	1	0	0	3	.125	.125	.125	.000	.200	0.0%	37.5%	.110	-1.3	-43	0.0
2017	ATL	5	9	0	0	1	3	.000	.125	.000	.000	.000	11.1%	33.3%	.089	-1.8	-62	-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 Max Fried'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	NYY	Postseason total · through Oct 7	2	2	11.2	1	1	10	5	3	1	13	3.86	0.94	10.0
		Wild Card	1	1	6.0	1	0	3	1	1	1	6	1.50	0.67	9.0
		ALDS	1	1	5.2	0	1	7	4	2	0	7	6.35	1.24	11.1
2025 Post	NYY	Postseason total	2	2	9.1	0	1	12	7	1	5	7	6.75	1.82	6.8
		Wild Card	1	1	6.1	0	0	4	0	0	3	6	0.00	1.11	8.5
		ALDS	1	1	3.0	0	1	8	7	1	2	1	21.00	3.33	3.0
2024 Post	ATL	Wild Card	1	1	2.0	0	1	8	5	1	0	2	22.50	4.00	9.0
2023 Post	ATL	NLDS	1	1	4.0	0	0	6	3	1	4	3	6.75	2.50	6.8
2022 Post	ATL	NLDS	1	1	3.1	0	1	8	4	0	1	2	10.80	2.70	5.4
2021 Post	ATL	Postseason total	5	5	27.2	2	2	30	13	3	3	29	4.23	1.19	9.4
		NLDS	1	1	6.0	1	0	3	0	0	0	9	0.00	0.50	13.5
		NLCS	2	2	10.2	0	1	16	7	3	2	8	5.91	1.69	6.8
		World Series	2	2	11.0	1	1	11	6	0	1	12	4.91	1.09	9.8
2020 Post	ATL	Postseason total	4	4	23.2	0	1	24	8	4	6	23	3.04	1.27	8.7
		Wild Card	1	1	7.0	0	0	6	0	0	0	5	0.00	0.86	6.4
		NLDS	1	1	4.0	0	0	6	4	1	0	4	9.00	1.50	9.0
		NLCS	2	2	12.2	0	1	12	4	3	6	14	2.84	1.42	9.9
2019 Post	ATL	NLDS	4	0	4.0	0	0	5	4	0	3	6	9.00	2.00	13.5
2018 Post	ATL	NLDS	4	0	2.1	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	3.86	0.86	3.9
Career		Postseason total · 9 Octobers	24	16	88.0	3	7	104	50	14	24	86	5.11	1.45	8.8

Postseason batting

Postseason Max Fried'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
2021 Post	ATL	Postseason total	3	5	5	5	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	1	2	2	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	2	3	3	3	.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	103	92	16	0	9	22	.174	.245	.228	.222	21.4%
vs RHB	331	302	63	4	24	82	.209	.270	.288	.255	24.8%

Pitch sequencing

What Max Fried 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


Cutter	22.6%	384	91.8	2,290	53.6%	26.9%	83	.169	.480
Sinker	20.9%	355	93.1	2,068	41.1%	19.4%	91	.264	.658
Four-Seam Fastball	17.5%	297	94.8	2,119	50.2%	18.1%	67	.239	.806
Curveball	13.6%	231	73.7	2,812	41.1%	29.2%	57	.211	.452
Changeup	12.1%	206	85.6	1,645	38.3%	30.8%	62	.194	.445
Sweeper	12.0%	204	79.8	2,772	47.1%	31.3%	32	.031	.092
Slider	1.1%	19	84.6	2,429	31.6%	60.0%	3	—	—

Max Fried'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.

Shohei OhtaniLAD

ERA: 1.79
FIP: 2.61
SO: 95
WAR: 2.6

Ranger SuarezBOS

ERA: 3.22
FIP: 3.16
SO: 140
WAR: 3.6

Parker MessickCLE

ERA: 2.56
FIP: 3.07
SO: 193
WAR: 4.7

Michael SorokaAZ

ERA: 3.41
FIP: 3.19
SO: 114
WAR: 2.7

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.