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Emilio Pagán

Age: 35
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 208 lb
Number: #15

Born: May 7, 1991 in Simpsonville, SC, United States
MLB debut: May 3, 2017
Drafted: 2013, round 10
College: Belmont Abbey
High school: James L. Mann
Salary, 2026: $10M

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dbWAR: 4.5
IP: 42.2
ERA: 3.38
FIP: 4.18
K/9: 9.5
FIP−: 100

Emilio Pagán is a relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2026 he struck out 45 batters over 42.2 innings across 45 appearances, going 5-1. His ERA of 3.38 was 19.3% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 5th of 20 on his team, and 151st of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.18 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 25.9% of swings (13.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 25.9%. His 0.2 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.

FIP4.18

K/99.5

WHIP1.03

WAR.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2026	CIN	45	0	42.2	5	1	25	33	16	45	11	3.38	4.18	1.03	9.5	2.3	81	100	0.2
2025	CIN	70	0	68.2	2	4	32	41	22	81	22	2.88	3.72	0.92	10.6	2.9	69	89	0.8
2024	CIN	38	1	38.0	4	5	1	40	19	44	11	4.50	3.77	1.34	10.4	2.6	110	92	0.4
2023	MIN	66	1	69.1	5	2	1	45	23	65	21	2.99	3.27	0.95	8.4	2.7	69	75	1.3
2022	MIN	59	0	63.0	4	6	9	60	31	84	26	4.43	4.21	1.37	12.0	3.7	112	106	0.2
2021	SD	67	0	63.1	4	3	0	56	34	69	18	4.83	5.22	1.17	9.8	2.6	113	122	-0.3
2020	SD	22	0	22.0	0	1	2	14	11	23	9	4.50	4.69	1.05	9.4	3.7	101	105	0.1
2019	TB	66	0	70.0	4	2	20	45	18	96	13	2.31	3.30	0.83	12.3	1.7	51	73	1.3
2018	OAK	55	0	62.0	3	1	0	55	30	63	19	4.35	4.92	1.19	9.1	2.8	105	119	-0.3
2017	SEA	34	0	50.1	2	3	0	39	18	56	8	3.22	3.28	0.93	10.0	1.4	74	75	0.9

Batting Regular season

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


2021	SD	2	2	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-123	-0.0
2019	TB	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-123	-0.0
2017	SEA	1	2	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-125	-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 Emilio Pagán's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	W	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2023 Post	MIN	ALDS	2	2.0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0.00	0.50	4.5
2020 Post	SD	Postseason total	5	5.0	1	2	0	0	2	3	0.00	0.80	5.4
		Wild Card	3	3.0	1	2	0	0	2	2	0.00	1.33	6.0
		NLDS	2	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.00	4.5
2019 Post	TB	Postseason total	4	3.0	0	5	2	2	2	2	6.00	2.33	6.0
		Wild Card	1	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.00	13.5
		ALDS	3	2.1	0	5	2	2	2	1	7.71	3.00	3.9
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	11	10.0	1	7	2	2	5	6	1.80	1.20	5.4

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	91	81	16	5	7	27	.198	.264	.432	.295	29.7%
vs RHB	83	74	17	2	4	18	.230	.293	.365	.293	21.7%

Pitch sequencing

What Emilio Pagán 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	62.9%	424	94.9	2,525	52.1%	20.6%	112	.196	.686
Cutter	19.4%	131	85.9	2,293	45.0%	36.5%	21	.190	.408
Splitter	17.7%	119	82.8	869	37.8%	41.2%	23	.304	.855

Emilio Pagán'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.

Rico GarciaBAL

ERA: 3.09
FIP: 3.89
SO: 68
WAR: 0.6

Very close

Will DionWSH

ERA: 3.62
FIP: 4.07
SO: 55
WAR: 0.4

Dylan DoddATL

ERA: 2.54
FIP: 3.83
SO: 53
WAR: 0.5

Kevin GinkelAZ

ERA: 4.12
FIP: 3.50
SO: 72
WAR: 0.9

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.