Players · J · Pitcher · 2026 regular season
Griffin Jax
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 195 lb
- Number
- #22
- Born
- November 22, 1994 in Phoenix, AZ, United States
- MLB debut
- June 8, 2021
- Drafted
- 2013, round 12
- College
- Air Force
- High school
- Cherry Creek
- Salary, 2026
- $3.56M
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- dbWAR
- 6.8 Regular season, 7 season(s)
- IP
- 112.1
- ERA
- 3.28
- FIP
- 3.76
- K/9
- 9.3
- FIP−
- 90 100 = avg
Griffin Jax is a starting pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2026 he struck out 116 batters over 112.1 innings across 34 appearances, 23 of them starts, going 8-10. His ERA of 3.28 was 21.4% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 6th of 16 on his team, and 132nd of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.76 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 30.0% of swings (14.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 25.3%. His 1.7 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.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | TB | 34 | 23 | 112.1 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 97 | 41 | 116 | 35 | 3.28 | 3.76 | 1.18 | 9.3 | 2.8 | 79 | 90 | 1.7 | |
| 2025 | MIN/TB | 73 | 2 | 66.0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 64 | 31 | 99 | 21 | 4.23 | 2.51 | 1.29 | 13.5 | 2.9 | 102 | 60 | 1.7 | |
| 2024 | MIN | 72 | 0 | 71.0 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 47 | 16 | 95 | 15 | 2.03 | 1.94 | 0.87 | 12.0 | 1.9 | 50 | 48 | 2.2 | |
| 2023 | MIN | 71 | 0 | 65.1 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 58 | 28 | 68 | 19 | 3.86 | 3.22 | 1.18 | 9.4 | 2.6 | 89 | 74 | 1.2 | |
| 2022 | MIN | 65 | 0 | 72.1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 56 | 27 | 78 | 20 | 3.36 | 3.17 | 1.05 | 9.7 | 2.5 | 85 | 80 | 1.1 | |
| 2021 | MIN | 18 | 14 | 82.0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 82 | 58 | 65 | 29 | 6.37 | 6.47 | 1.35 | 7.1 | 3.2 | 149 | 152 | -1.2 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | MIN | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 66.7% | .000 | -0.8 | -121 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Post | TB | Postseason total · through Oct 27 | 3 | 2 | 10.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 5.40 | 1.50 | 10.8 |
| ALDS | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4.50 | 1.00 | 18.0 | ||
| ALCS | 1 | 1 | 4.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6.75 | 1.75 | 4.5 | ||
| World Series | 1 | 1 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4.50 | 1.50 | 13.5 | ||
| 2023 Post | MIN | Postseason total | 4 | 0 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.00 | 0.27 | 12.3 |
| Wild Card | 2 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 0.50 | 9.0 | ||
| ALDS | 2 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.2 | ||
| Career | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 7 | 2 | 13.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 3.95 | 1.17 | 11.2 |
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 | 276 | 250 | 62 | 10 | 20 | 76 | .248 | .300 | .404 | .308 | 27.5% |
| vs RHB | 183 | 162 | 35 | 5 | 15 | 40 | .216 | .286 | .346 | .283 | 21.9% |
Pitch sequencing
What Griffin Jax 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.
| Sweeper | 432 | 87.5 | 3,023 | 48.6% | 35.7% | 73 | .219 | .693 | |
| Sinker | 391 | 95.3 | 2,528 | 48.1% | 11.9% | 118 | .254 | .745 | |
| Changeup | 389 | 90.8 | 1,886 | 47.6% | 41.9% | 117 | .222 | .526 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 312 | 95.9 | 2,539 | 46.8% | 26.9% | 65 | .246 | .792 | |
| Curveball | 150 | 84.9 | 3,017 | 44.0% | 42.6% | 30 | .167 | .367 | |
| Cutter | 50 | 92.8 | 2,680 | 34.0% | 12.5% | 13 | — | — |
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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.