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Drew Anderson

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #38

Born: March 22, 1994 in Reno, NV, United States
MLB debut: August 1, 2017
Drafted: 2012, round 21
High school: Galena
Salary, 2026: $7M

dbWAR: .9
IP: 108.0
ERA: 3.67
FIP: 4.28
K/9: 9.5
FIP−: 102

Drew Anderson is a relief pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 2026 he struck out 114 batters over 108.0 innings across 49 appearances, going 5-7. His ERA of 3.67 is 12.2% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 10th of 20 on his team, and 199th of 538 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.28 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 27.0% of swings (13.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 25.0%. His 0.6 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.

FIP4.28

K/99.5

WHIP1.26

WAR.6

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	DET	49	11	108.0	5	7	2	93	44	114	43	3.67	4.28	1.26	9.5	3.6	88	102	0.6
2021	TEX	9	1	22.0	1	1	0	20	8	9	6	3.27	3.90	1.18	3.7	2.5	77	91	0.2
2020	CWS	1	0	1.1	0	1	0	4	6	2	2	40.50	24.19	4.50	13.5	13.5	909	543	-0.3
2019	PHI	2	0	6.0	0	0	0	6	5	6	6	7.50	6.38	2.00	9.0	9.0	166	142	-0.1
2018	PHI	5	1	12.2	0	1	0	17	7	11	2	4.97	2.37	1.50	7.8	1.4	120	57	0.4
2017	PHI	2	0	2.1	0	0	0	6	6	2	1	23.14	2.73	3.00	7.7	3.9	531	63	0.1

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2019	PHI	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-117	-0.0
2018	PHI	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	25.0%	.000	-1.0	-119	-0.0

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	249	224	50	9	20	56	.223	.287	.375	.292	22.5%
vs RHB	208	179	43	7	24	58	.240	.346	.425	.345	27.9%

Pitch sequencing

What Drew Anderson 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


Four-Seam Fastball	40.6%	720	95.3	2,259	50.0%	18.6%	163	.209	.676
Changeup	31.0%	550	89.8	1,516	47.1%	36.1%	139	.223	.671
Curveball	21.9%	389	80.1	2,709	49.6%	33.3%	73	.247	.732
Slider	4.8%	85	88.1	2,573	47.1%	26.1%	21	.333	1.128
Sinker	1.6%	28	94.7	2,096	35.7%	0.0%	7	—	—

Drew Anderson'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.

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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.