Players · K · Pitcher · 2026 regular season
Michael King
- Age
- 31
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Number
- #34
- Born
- May 25, 1995 in Rochester, NY, United States
- MLB debut
- September 27, 2019
- Drafted
- 2016, round 12
- College
- Boston College
- High school
- Bishop Hendricken
- Salary, 2026
- $12M
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- dbWAR
- 10.8 Regular season, 8 season(s)
- IP
- 185.0
- ERA
- 3.21
- FIP
- 4.14
- K/9
- 7.7
- FIP−
- 99 100 = avg
Michael King is a starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2026 he struck out 159 batters over 185.0 innings across 32 appearances, 32 of them starts, going 12-10. His ERA of 3.21 was 23.2% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 7th of 19 on his team, and 123rd of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.14 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 24.5% of swings (11.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.0%. His 2.2 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.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | SD | 32 | 32 | 185.0 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 148 | 66 | 159 | 70 | 3.21 | 4.14 | 1.18 | 7.7 | 3.4 | 77 | 99 | 2.2 | |
| 2025 | SD | 15 | 15 | 73.1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 62 | 28 | 76 | 26 | 3.44 | 4.42 | 1.20 | 9.3 | 3.2 | 83 | 106 | 0.6 | |
| 2024 | SD | 31 | 30 | 173.2 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 144 | 57 | 201 | 63 | 2.95 | 3.33 | 1.19 | 10.4 | 3.3 | 72 | 82 | 3.6 | |
| 2023 | NYY | 49 | 9 | 104.2 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 88 | 32 | 127 | 32 | 2.75 | 3.13 | 1.15 | 10.9 | 2.8 | 64 | 72 | 2.2 | |
| 2022 | NYY | 34 | 0 | 51.0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 35 | 13 | 66 | 16 | 2.29 | 2.23 | 1.00 | 11.6 | 2.8 | 58 | 56 | 1.4 | |
| 2021 | NYY | 22 | 6 | 63.1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 57 | 25 | 62 | 24 | 3.55 | 3.86 | 1.28 | 8.8 | 3.4 | 83 | 91 | 0.8 | |
| 2020 | NYY | 9 | 4 | 26.2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 23 | 26 | 11 | 7.76 | 5.14 | 1.54 | 8.8 | 3.7 | 174 | 115 | 0.1 | |
| 2019 | NYY | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 2.21 | 1.00 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 0 | 49 | 0.1 |
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 | SD | Postseason total · through Oct 6 | 3 | 2 | 14.0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 0.64 | 0.71 | 9.6 |
| Wild Card | 1 | 1 | 7.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0.00 | 0.57 | 10.3 | ||
| NLDS | 2 | 1 | 7.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1.29 | 0.86 | 9.0 | ||
| 2025 Post | SD | Wild Card | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 27.0 |
| 2024 Post | SD | Postseason total | 2 | 2 | 12.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 3.75 | 0.92 | 11.3 |
| Wild Card | 1 | 1 | 7.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.00 | 0.71 | 15.4 | ||
| NLDS | 1 | 1 | 5.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9.00 | 1.20 | 5.4 | ||
| 2020 Post | NYY | ALDS | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.5 |
| Career | Postseason total · 4 Octobers | 7 | 4 | 29.0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 34 | 1.86 | 0.76 | 10.6 |
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 | 476 | 425 | 93 | 13 | 47 | 97 | .219 | .299 | .336 | .289 | 20.4% |
| vs RHB | 281 | 245 | 55 | 7 | 23 | 62 | .224 | .319 | .363 | .311 | 22.1% |
Pitch sequencing
What Michael King 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.
| Sinker | 829 | 93.2 | 2,256 | 50.8% | 16.8% | 173 | .249 | .817 | |
| Changeup | 788 | 86.5 | 1,865 | 39.3% | 27.0% | 225 | .204 | .535 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 606 | 94.3 | 2,354 | 50.2% | 27.7% | 112 | .223 | .693 | |
| Sweeper | 563 | 82.0 | 2,827 | 44.9% | 27.3% | 115 | .226 | .659 | |
| Slider | 195 | 85.5 | 2,541 | 42.6% | 24.4% | 47 | .170 | .448 |
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- Trevor Megill2026 NLDS
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- Peter Lambertsimilar 2026 seasons
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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.