Players · B · Pitcher · 2026 regular season
Paul Blackburn
- Age
- 33
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 196 lb
- Number
- #58
- Born
- December 4, 1993 in Antioch, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- July 1, 2017
- Drafted
- 2012, round C-A
- High school
- Heritage
- Salary, 2026
- $2M
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- dbWAR
- 5.1 Regular season, 12 season(s)
- IP
- 85.0
- ERA
- 1.69
- FIP
- 3.75
- K/9
- 7.3
- FIP−
- 90 100 = avg
Paul Blackburn is a relief pitcher for the New York Yankees. In 2026 he struck out 69 batters over 85.0 innings across 62 appearances, going 7-3. His ERA of 1.69 was 59.5% lower than the league average of 4.18 — the best on his team, and 8th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.75 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 22.8% of swings (10.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 20.5%. His 1.0 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 | NYY | 62 | 2 | 85.0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 60 | 16 | 69 | 33 | 1.69 | 3.75 | 1.09 | 7.3 | 3.5 | 41 | 90 | 1.0 | |
| 2025 | NYY/NYM | 15 | 4 | 39.0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 47 | 27 | 34 | 12 | 6.23 | 4.39 | 1.51 | 7.8 | 2.8 | 150 | 106 | 0.2 | |
| 2024 | OAK/NYM | 14 | 14 | 75.1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 76 | 39 | 59 | 21 | 4.66 | 4.63 | 1.29 | 7.0 | 2.5 | 114 | 113 | 0.4 | |
| 2023 | OAK | 21 | 20 | 103.2 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 117 | 51 | 104 | 43 | 4.43 | 3.96 | 1.54 | 9.0 | 3.7 | 102 | 91 | 1.6 | |
| 2022 | OAK | 21 | 21 | 111.1 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 110 | 53 | 89 | 30 | 4.28 | 4.21 | 1.26 | 7.2 | 2.4 | 108 | 106 | 1.0 | |
| 2021 | OAK | 9 | 9 | 38.1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 52 | 25 | 26 | 10 | 5.87 | 5.47 | 1.62 | 6.1 | 2.3 | 138 | 128 | -0.1 | |
| 2020 | OAK | 1 | 1 | 2.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 27.00 | 4.05 | 3.00 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 606 | 91 | 0.0 | |
| 2019 | OAK | 4 | 1 | 11.0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 10.64 | 6.67 | 2.09 | 6.5 | 3.3 | 236 | 148 | -0.2 | |
| 2018 | OAK | 6 | 6 | 27.2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 33 | 22 | 19 | 6 | 7.16 | 3.59 | 1.41 | 6.2 | 2.0 | 172 | 87 | 0.5 | |
| 2017 | OAK | 10 | 10 | 58.2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 58 | 21 | 22 | 16 | 3.22 | 4.38 | 1.26 | 3.4 | 2.5 | 74 | 101 | 0.7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Post | NYY | Postseason total · through Oct 7 | 4 | 0 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.33 | 0.0 |
| Wild Card | 1 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.60 | 0.0 | ||
| ALDS | 3 | 0 | 4.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.23 | 0.0 | ||
| 2025 Post | NYY | ALDS | 1 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27.00 | 4.50 | 0.0 |
| Career | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 5 | 0 | 7.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4.91 | 1.09 | 0.0 |
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 | 174 | 154 | 31 | 5 | 20 | 35 | .201 | .293 | .331 | .285 | 20.1% |
| vs RHB | 162 | 148 | 29 | 2 | 13 | 34 | .196 | .265 | .257 | .240 | 21.0% |
Pitch sequencing
What Paul Blackburn 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.
| Sinker | 421 | 94.3 | 2,028 | 47.5% | 11.4% | 104 | .269 | .698 | |
| Changeup | 265 | 87.5 | 1,792 | 41.5% | 29.9% | 79 | .101 | .299 | |
| Cutter | 243 | 91.8 | 2,467 | 39.9% | 16.8% | 49 | .286 | .801 | |
| Curveball | 179 | 81.1 | 2,710 | 45.8% | 41.1% | 37 | .081 | .333 | |
| Sweeper | 91 | 83.8 | 2,756 | 36.3% | 32.6% | 26 | .154 | .484 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 33 | 94.7 | 2,269 | 36.4% | 10.0% | 6 | — | — |
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