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José Alvarado

Philadelphia Phillies National League East

Age: 31
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 245 lb
Number: #46

Born: May 21, 1995 in Maracaibo, Venezuela
MLB debut: May 3, 2017
Salary, 2026: $500,000

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dbWAR: 7.0
IP: 58.1
ERA: 5.86
FIP: 3.82
K/9: 10.8
FIP−: 91

José Alvarado is a relief pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2026 he struck out 70 batters over 58.1 innings across 68 appearances, going 5-4. His ERA of 5.86 was 40.2% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 13th of 17 on his team, and 476th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.82 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 27.0% of swings (12.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 25.6%. His 0.7 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.

FIP3.82

K/910.8

WHIP1.65

WAR.7

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2026	PHI	68	0	58.1	5	4	1	65	38	70	31	5.86	3.82	1.65	10.8	4.8	140	91	0.7
2025	PHI	28	0	26.0	4	2	7	27	11	32	7	3.81	3.60	1.31	11.1	2.4	92	86	0.4
2024	PHI	66	0	61.2	2	5	13	49	28	63	28	4.09	3.80	1.25	9.2	4.1	100	93	0.6
2023	PHI	42	0	41.1	0	2	10	30	8	64	18	1.74	2.41	1.16	13.9	3.9	40	56	1.2
2022	PHI	59	0	51.0	4	2	2	38	18	81	24	3.18	1.92	1.22	14.3	4.2	80	48	1.6
2021	PHI	64	0	55.2	7	1	5	42	26	68	47	4.20	4.80	1.60	11.0	7.6	99	113	-0.0
2020	TB	9	0	9.0	0	0	0	9	6	13	6	6.00	5.86	1.67	13.0	6.0	135	132	-0.1
2019	TB	35	1	30.0	1	6	7	29	16	39	27	4.80	4.18	1.87	11.7	8.1	107	93	0.3
2018	TB	70	0	64.0	1	6	8	42	17	80	29	2.39	2.27	1.11	11.3	4.1	58	55	1.8
2017	TB	35	0	29.2	0	3	0	24	12	29	9	3.64	2.55	1.11	8.8	2.7	84	59	0.8

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2022	PHI	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-118	-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 José Alvarado's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	W	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2024 Post	PHI	NLDS	1	0.2	0	0	1	2	0	2	1	27.00	4.50	13.5
2023 Post	PHI	Postseason total	8	8.0	0	0	7	1	0	3	6	1.13	1.25	6.8
		Wild Card	1	1.0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0.00	1.00	18.0
		NLDS	3	3.0	0	0	1	0	0	2	2	0.00	1.00	6.0
		NLCS	4	4.0	0	0	5	1	0	1	2	2.25	1.50	4.5
2022 Post	PHI	Postseason total	12	11.1	1	1	9	7	3	5	14	5.56	1.24	11.1
		Wild Card	2	1.1	0	0	1	2	1	2	0	13.50	2.25	0.0
		NLDS	3	3.2	0	0	1	1	1	0	5	2.45	0.27	12.3
		NLCS	3	3.0	1	1	3	0	0	2	4	0.00	1.67	12.0
		World Series	4	3.1	0	0	4	4	1	1	5	10.80	1.50	13.5
2020 Post	TB	ALCS	2	1.2	0	0	1	0	0	3	4	0.00	2.40	21.6
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	23	21.2	1	1	18	10	3	13	25	4.15	1.43	10.4

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	119	101	34	2	11	25	.337	.432	.446	.395	21.0%
vs RHB	154	132	31	3	20	45	.235	.344	.379	.322	29.2%

Pitch sequencing

What José Alvarado 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


Sinker	63.2%	713	97.8	2,025	49.9%	20.6%	144	.313	.838
Cutter	32.2%	364	91.5	2,120	39.6%	39.1%	80	.225	.695
Curveball	2.7%	30	84.9	2,329	30.0%	30.0%	6	—	—
Four-Seam Fastball	1.9%	22	97.2	1,991	31.8%	22.2%	4	—	—

José Alvarado'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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Nearest 2026 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

José SuarezATH

ERA: 5.87
FIP: 3.85
SO: 61
WAR: 0.8

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Luke MurphyLAA

ERA: 6.75
FIP: 4.20
SO: 20
WAR: 0.1

Isaac MattsonPIT

ERA: 5.35
FIP: 3.72
SO: 36
WAR: 0.5

Luis MeyCIN

ERA: 6.23
FIP: 3.59
SO: 50
WAR: 0.4

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.