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Lucas Giolito
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 6"
- Weight
- 245 lb
- Number
- #55
- Born
- July 14, 1994 in Santa Monica, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- June 28, 2016
- Drafted
- 2012, round 1
- High school
- Harvard-Westlake
- Salary, 2026
- $2.56M
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- dbWAR
- 11.6 Regular season, 14 season(s)
- IP
- 29.2
- ERA
- 5.16
- FIP
- 6.07
- K/9
- 5.5
- FIP−
- 145 100 = avg
Lucas Giolito is a starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2026 he struck out 18 batters over 29.2 innings across 7 appearances, 5 of them starts, going 2-3. His ERA of 5.16 was 23.3% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 15th of 19 on his team, and 413th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.07 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 24.0% of swings (9.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 16.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.0%. His -0.4 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.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | SD | 7 | 5 | 29.2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 17 | 18 | 23 | 5.16 | 6.07 | 1.85 | 5.5 | 7.0 | 123 | 145 | -0.4 | |
| 2025 | BOS | 26 | 26 | 145.0 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 131 | 55 | 121 | 56 | 3.41 | 4.17 | 1.29 | 7.5 | 3.5 | 82 | 100 | 1.7 | |
| 2023 | CWS/LAA/CLE | 33 | 33 | 184.1 | 8 | 15 | 0 | 169 | 100 | 204 | 73 | 4.88 | 5.27 | 1.31 | 10.0 | 3.6 | 113 | 122 | 0.3 | |
| 2022 | CWS | 30 | 30 | 161.2 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 171 | 88 | 177 | 61 | 4.90 | 4.06 | 1.44 | 9.9 | 3.4 | 123 | 102 | 1.9 | |
| 2021 | CWS | 31 | 31 | 178.2 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 145 | 70 | 201 | 52 | 3.53 | 3.79 | 1.10 | 10.1 | 2.6 | 83 | 89 | 3.2 | |
| 2020 | CWS | 12 | 12 | 72.1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 47 | 28 | 97 | 28 | 3.48 | 3.19 | 1.04 | 12.1 | 3.5 | 78 | 72 | 2.0 | |
| 2019 | CWS | 29 | 29 | 176.2 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 131 | 67 | 228 | 57 | 3.41 | 3.43 | 1.06 | 11.6 | 2.9 | 76 | 76 | 4.2 | |
| 2018 | CWS | 32 | 32 | 173.1 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 166 | 118 | 125 | 90 | 6.13 | 5.56 | 1.48 | 6.5 | 4.7 | 148 | 134 | -0.8 | |
| 2017 | CWS | 7 | 7 | 45.1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 31 | 12 | 34 | 12 | 2.38 | 4.94 | 0.95 | 6.8 | 2.4 | 55 | 113 | 0.2 | |
| 2016 | WSH | 6 | 4 | 21.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 6.75 | 8.21 | 1.78 | 4.6 | 5.1 | 161 | 196 | -0.8 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Post | CWS | ALDS | 1 | 1 | 4.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 8.31 | 1.85 | 8.3 |
| 2020 Post | CWS | Wild Card | 1 | 1 | 7.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1.29 | 0.43 | 10.3 |
| Career | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 2 | 2 | 11.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 3.97 | 0.97 | 9.5 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 71 | 57 | 20 | 1 | 13 | 5 | .351 | .479 | .456 | .426 | 7.0% |
| vs RHB | 67 | 57 | 12 | 3 | 10 | 13 | .211 | .328 | .368 | .319 | 19.4% |
Pitch sequencing
What Lucas Giolito 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.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 229 | 90.8 | 2,143 | 43.2% | 16.7% | 47 | .319 | .888 | |
| Changeup | 191 | 79.0 | 1,541 | 39.8% | 24.4% | 46 | .283 | .845 | |
| Slider | 94 | 83.2 | 1,827 | 31.9% | 48.6% | 12 | — | — | |
| Curveball | 37 | 76.9 | 2,226 | 21.6% | 7.1% | 9 | — | — |
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