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Zack Littell
- Age
- 31
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 250 lb
- Number
- #46
- Born
- October 5, 1995 in Burlington, NC, United States
- MLB debut
- June 5, 2018
- Drafted
- 2013, round 11
- High school
- Eastern Alamance
- Salary, 2026
- $3M
- dbWAR
- 2.9 Regular season, 10 season(s)
- IP
- 124.1
- ERA
- 5.21
- FIP
- 6.08
- K/9
- 5.3
- FIP−
- 145 100 = avg
Zack Littell is a starting pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2026 he struck out 73 batters over 124.1 innings across 26 appearances, 14 of them starts, going 8-8. His ERA of 5.21 was 24.6% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 12th of 18 on his team, and 418th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.08 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 16.2% of swings (8.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.5%. His -1.4 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 | WSH/AZ | 26 | 14 | 124.1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 136 | 72 | 73 | 39 | 5.21 | 6.08 | 1.41 | 5.3 | 2.8 | 125 | 145 | -1.4 | |
| 2025 | TB/CIN | 32 | 32 | 186.2 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 174 | 79 | 130 | 32 | 3.81 | 4.88 | 1.10 | 6.3 | 1.5 | 92 | 117 | 0.8 | |
| 2024 | TB | 29 | 29 | 156.1 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 164 | 63 | 141 | 31 | 3.63 | 3.88 | 1.25 | 8.1 | 1.8 | 89 | 95 | 2.2 | |
| 2023 | TB/BOS | 28 | 14 | 90.0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 94 | 41 | 74 | 12 | 4.10 | 4.02 | 1.18 | 7.4 | 1.2 | 95 | 93 | 1.1 | |
| 2022 | SF | 39 | 0 | 44.1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 48 | 25 | 39 | 13 | 5.08 | 4.65 | 1.38 | 7.9 | 2.6 | 128 | 117 | -0.1 | |
| 2021 | SF | 63 | 2 | 61.2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 46 | 20 | 63 | 24 | 2.92 | 3.87 | 1.14 | 9.2 | 3.5 | 68 | 91 | 0.7 | |
| 2020 | MIN | 6 | 0 | 6.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 9.95 | 14.40 | 2.37 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 223 | 323 | -0.7 | |
| 2019 | MIN | 29 | 0 | 37.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 11 | 32 | 9 | 2.68 | 3.62 | 1.16 | 7.8 | 2.2 | 59 | 80 | 0.6 | |
| 2018 | MIN | 8 | 2 | 20.1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 6.20 | 5.91 | 1.77 | 6.2 | 4.9 | 149 | 143 | -0.3 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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| 2021 | SF | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .000 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 75.0% | .219 | -0.3 | 32 | 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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Post | CIN | Wild Card | 1 | 1 | 3.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8.10 | 1.80 | 5.4 |
| 2023 Post | TB | Wild Card | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.0 |
| 2021 Post | SF | NLDS | 2 | 0 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 10.13 | 2.25 | 16.9 |
| 2019 Post | MIN | ALDS | 2 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 54.00 | 3.00 | 0.0 |
| Career | Postseason total · 4 Octobers | 6 | 1 | 8.1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8.64 | 1.56 | 11.9 |
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 | 302 | 274 | 80 | 22 | 24 | 36 | .292 | .349 | .584 | .397 | 11.9% |
| vs RHB | 238 | 215 | 56 | 8 | 15 | 37 | .260 | .307 | .419 | .315 | 15.5% |
Pitch sequencing
What Zack Littell 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.
| Slider | 559 | 88.2 | 2,111 | 45.6% | 19.0% | 121 | .256 | .783 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 504 | 91.7 | 2,016 | 47.8% | 14.7% | 122 | .320 | 1.092 | |
| Splitter | 456 | 84.1 | 1,145 | 36.6% | 17.1% | 131 | .237 | .622 | |
| Sinker | 286 | 91.4 | 1,957 | 45.5% | 11.8% | 78 | .333 | 1.013 | |
| Sweeper | 171 | 79.3 | 2,181 | 36.3% | 18.3% | 39 | .231 | .552 |
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