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Walker Buehler

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 185 lb
Number: #10

Born: July 28, 1994 in Lexington, KY, United States
MLB debut: September 7, 2017
Drafted: 2015, round 1
College: Vanderbilt
High school: Henry Clay
Salary, 2026: $3M

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dbWAR: 15.0
IP: 153.2
ERA: 4.63
FIP: 4.51
K/9: 7.7
FIP−: 108

Walker Buehler is a starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2026 he struck out 131 batters over 153.2 innings across 32 appearances, 32 of them starts, going 9-6. His ERA of 4.63 was 10.7% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 12th of 19 on his team, and 363rd of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.51 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 19.5% of swings (8.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 20.1%. His 1.2 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.

FIP4.51

K/97.7

WHIP1.35

WAR1.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2026	SD	32	32	153.2	9	6	150	79	131	57	4.63	4.51	1.35	7.7	3.3	111	108	1.2
2025	BOS/PHI	26	24	126.0	10	7	130	69	92	61	4.93	5.66	1.52	6.6	4.4	119	136	-0.7
2024	LAD	16	16	75.1	1	6	89	45	64	28	5.38	5.54	1.55	7.6	3.3	132	136	-0.4
2022	LAD	12	12	65.0	6	3	67	29	58	17	4.02	3.80	1.29	8.0	2.4	101	96	0.9
2021	LAD	33	33	207.2	16	4	149	57	212	52	2.47	3.16	0.97	9.2	2.3	58	74	5.2
2020	LAD	8	8	36.2	1	0	24	14	42	11	3.44	4.36	0.95	10.3	2.7	77	98	0.5
2019	LAD	30	30	182.1	14	4	153	66	215	37	3.26	3.01	1.04	10.6	1.8	72	67	5.1
2018	LAD	24	23	137.1	8	5	95	40	151	37	2.62	3.04	0.96	9.9	2.4	63	73	3.3
2017	LAD	8	0	9.1	1	0	11	8	12	8	7.71	5.94	2.04	11.6	7.7	177	136	-0.1

Batting Regular season

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


2021	LAD	34	82	7	0	3	5	45	.101	.162	.130	.029	.292	6.1%	54.9%	.142	-12.1	-22	0.1
2019	LAD	29	66	5	1	2	4	33	.085	.143	.136	.051	.160	6.1%	50.0%	.132	-10.8	-31	-0.1
2018	LAD	22	47	7	0	1	2	21	.163	.200	.163	.000	.318	4.3%	44.7%	.168	-5.7	-4	0.2

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 Walker Buehler'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	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2026 Post	SD	NLDS · through Oct 7	1	1	3.0	0	0	0	3	1	0	2	0	3.00	1.67	0.0
2024 Post	LAD	Postseason total	4	3	15.0	1	1	1	12	6	1	5	13	3.60	1.13	7.8
		NLDS	1	1	5.0	0	1	0	7	6	1	1	0	10.80	1.60	0.0
		NLCS	1	1	4.0	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	6	0.00	1.25	13.5
		World Series	2	1	6.0	1	0	1	2	0	0	2	7	0.00	0.67	10.5
2021 Post	LAD	Postseason total	4	4	18.1	0	2	0	22	10	3	9	18	4.91	1.69	8.8
		NLDS	2	2	10.2	0	1	0	9	4	2	3	9	3.38	1.13	7.6
		NLCS	2	2	7.2	0	1	0	13	6	1	6	9	7.04	2.48	10.6
2020 Post	LAD	Postseason total	5	5	25.0	2	0	0	18	5	2	12	39	1.80	1.20	14.0
		Wild Card	1	1	4.0	0	0	0	3	2	1	2	8	4.50	1.25	18.0
		NLDS	1	1	4.0	0	0	0	2	1	0	4	8	2.25	1.50	18.0
		NLCS	2	2	11.0	1	0	0	10	1	1	5	13	0.82	1.36	10.6
		World Series	1	1	6.0	1	0	0	3	1	0	1	10	1.50	0.67	15.0
2019 Post	LAD	NLDS	2	2	12.2	1	0	0	5	1	0	6	15	0.71	0.87	10.7
2018 Post	LAD	Postseason total	4	4	23.2	0	1	0	16	10	3	4	29	3.80	0.85	11.0
		NLDS	1	1	5.0	0	0	0	2	5	1	3	7	9.00	1.00	12.6
		NLCS	2	2	11.2	0	1	0	12	5	2	1	15	3.86	1.11	11.6
		World Series	1	1	7.0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	7	0.00	0.29	9.0
Career		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	20	19	97.2	4	4	1	76	33	9	38	114	3.04	1.17	10.5

Postseason batting

Postseason Walker Buehler's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2021 Post	LAD	Postseason total	4	6	6	1	4	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	2	4	4	1	3	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	2	2	2	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2019 Post	LAD	NLDS	2	4	4	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
2018 Post	LAD	Postseason total	4	8	6	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	1	2	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	2	4	3	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
		World Series	1	2	2	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	10	18	16	1	11	.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	373	333	91	10	36	76	.273	.351	.417	.342	20.4%
vs RHB	278	252	59	12	21	55	.234	.300	.421	.317	19.8%

Pitch sequencing

What Walker Buehler 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	24.7%	645	90.4	2,370	46.7%	17.3%	132	.265	.788
Four-Seam Fastball	20.0%	522	94.0	2,179	46.7%	14.6%	100	.320	.899
Sinker	20.0%	521	94.2	2,097	49.5%	11.4%	116	.207	.565
Slider	10.3%	269	87.1	2,464	48.0%	23.3%	67	.134	.395
Changeup	9.5%	247	89.3	1,227	32.8%	26.6%	59	.356	1.038
Knuckle Curve	8.4%	219	78.3	2,469	39.3%	30.9%	59	.271	.796
Sweeper	7.0%	183	82.5	2,656	41.5%	26.5%	54	.222	.745

Walker Buehler'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.