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A.J. Minter

Age: 33
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #33

Born: September 2, 1993 in Tyler, TX, United States
MLB debut: August 23, 2017
Drafted: 2012, round 38
College: Texas A&M
High school: Brook Hill
Salary, 2026: $11M

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dbWAR: 8.0
IP: 45.2
ERA: 2.76
FIP: 4.46
K/9: 8.1
FIP−: 107

A.J. Minter is a relief pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. In 2026 he struck out 41 batters over 45.2 innings across 48 appearances, going 2-2. His ERA of 2.76 was 34.0% lower than the league average of 4.18 — the best on his team, and 69th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.46 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 23.4% of swings (12.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 4.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 22.0%. His 0.1 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.

FIP4.46

K/98.1

WHIP1.07

WAR.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2026	MIN/NYM	48	45.2	2	2	1	41	14	41	8	2.76	4.46	1.07	8.1	1.6	66	107	0.1
2025	NYM	13	11.0	0	0	0	6	2	14	5	1.64	1.95	1.00	11.5	4.1	39	47	0.3
2024	ATL	39	34.1	5	4	1	24	10	35	11	2.62	4.45	1.02	9.2	2.9	64	109	0.0
2023	ATL	70	64.2	3	6	10	56	27	82	21	3.76	2.90	1.19	11.4	2.9	87	67	1.5
2022	ATL	75	70.0	5	4	5	49	16	94	15	2.06	2.13	0.91	12.1	1.9	52	54	1.9
2021	ATL	61	52.1	3	6	0	44	22	57	20	3.78	2.69	1.22	9.8	3.4	89	63	1.3
2020	ATL	22	21.2	1	1	0	15	2	24	9	0.83	2.82	1.11	10.0	3.7	19	63	0.5
2019	ATL	36	29.1	3	4	5	36	23	35	23	7.06	4.61	2.01	10.7	7.1	157	102	0.1
2018	ATL	65	61.1	4	3	15	57	22	69	22	3.23	2.72	1.29	10.1	3.2	78	66	1.4
2017	ATL	16	15.0	0	1	0	13	5	26	2	3.00	0.96	1.00	15.6	1.2	69	22	0.7

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2021	ATL	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-116	-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 A.J. Minter'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
2023 Post	ATL	NLDS	3	0	2.1	1	0	3	0	0	2	1	0.00	2.14	3.9
2022 Post	ATL	NLDS	2	0	2.2	0	0	1	2	0	0	4	6.75	0.38	13.5
2021 Post	ATL	Postseason total	8	0	12.0	1	1	8	4	0	4	18	3.00	1.00	13.5
		NLDS	1	0	1.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.00	0.00	20.3
		NLCS	4	0	6.0	0	0	2	0	0	2	8	0.00	0.67	12.0
		World Series	3	0	4.2	1	1	6	4	0	2	7	7.71	1.71	13.5
2020 Post	ATL	Postseason total	5	1	6.0	1	0	4	2	2	1	10	3.00	0.83	15.0
		Wild Card	1	0	0.2	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0.00	1.50	13.5
		NLDS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.00	9.0
		NLCS	3	1	4.1	0	0	4	2	2	0	8	4.15	0.92	16.6
2018 Post	ATL	NLDS	2	0	2.0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	0.00	1.00	13.5
Career		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	20	1	25.0	3	1	17	8	2	8	36	2.88	1.00	13.0

Postseason batting

Postseason A.J. Minter's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2021 Post	ATL	World Series	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.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	91	86	22	3	4	22	.256	.289	.407	.305	24.2%
vs RHB	95	90	19	6	4	19	.211	.253	.467	.303	20.0%

Pitch sequencing

What A.J. Minter 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	55.1%	373	89.0	2,550	45.8%	26.2%	102	.206	.645
Four-Seam Fastball	27.6%	187	93.5	2,446	44.4%	20.2%	47	.362	1.026
Changeup	12.9%	87	86.5	1,581	39.1%	19.0%	20	.150	.527
Sinker	4.4%	30	93.4	2,465	56.7%	15.4%	8	—	—

A.J. Minter'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.