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Cristopher Sánchez
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 6"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Number
- #61
- Born
- December 12, 1996 in La Romana, Dominican Republic
- MLB debut
- June 6, 2021
- Salary, 2026
- $3.5M
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- dbWAR
- 18.8 Regular season, 6 season(s)
- IP
- 207.0
- ERA
- 2.91
- FIP
- 2.80
- K/9
- 10.0
- FIP−
- 67 100 = avg
Cristopher Sánchez is a starting pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2026 he struck out 231 batters over 207.0 innings across 33 appearances, 33 of them starts, going 18-7. His ERA of 2.91 was 30.3% lower than the league average of 4.18 — the second best on his team, and 83rd of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 2.80 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 31.3% of swings (15.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 5.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 27.0%. His 6.1 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.
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| 2026 | PHI | 33 | 33 | 207.0 | 18 | 7 | 0 | 204 | 67 | 231 | 45 | 2.91 | 2.80 | 1.20 | 10.0 | 2.0 | 70 | 67 | 6.1 | |
| 2025 | PHI | 32 | 32 | 202.0 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 171 | 56 | 212 | 44 | 2.50 | 2.55 | 1.06 | 9.4 | 2.0 | 60 | 61 | 6.5 | |
| 2024 | PHI | 31 | 31 | 181.2 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 182 | 67 | 153 | 44 | 3.32 | 3.00 | 1.24 | 7.6 | 2.2 | 81 | 73 | 4.5 | |
| 2023 | PHI | 19 | 18 | 99.1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 88 | 38 | 96 | 16 | 3.44 | 3.99 | 1.05 | 8.7 | 1.4 | 79 | 92 | 1.6 | |
| 2022 | PHI | 15 | 3 | 40.0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 38 | 25 | 35 | 17 | 5.63 | 4.56 | 1.38 | 7.9 | 3.8 | 142 | 115 | 0.0 | |
| 2021 | PHI | 7 | 1 | 12.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 4.97 | 3.80 | 1.82 | 9.2 | 5.0 | 117 | 89 | 0.2 |
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 | PHI | Wild Card · through Sep 30 | 1 | 1 | 6.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 4.05 | 1.65 | 8.1 |
| 2025 Post | PHI | NLDS | 2 | 2 | 12.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 2.25 | 1.00 | 9.8 |
| 2024 Post | PHI | NLDS | 1 | 1 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3.60 | 1.20 | 9.0 |
| 2023 Post | PHI | NLCS | 1 | 1 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3.86 | 1.29 | 3.9 |
| Career | Postseason total · 4 Octobers | 5 | 5 | 26.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 25 | 3.12 | 1.23 | 8.7 |
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 | 192 | 187 | 32 | 1 | 4 | 67 | .171 | .188 | .203 | .176 | 34.9% |
| vs RHB | 665 | 613 | 172 | 18 | 41 | 164 | .281 | .331 | .421 | .332 | 24.7% |
Pitch sequencing
What Cristopher Sánchez 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 | 1,402 | 95.1 | 2,125 | 48.8% | 11.9% | 360 | .331 | .854 | |
| Changeup | 1,171 | 87.0 | 2,045 | 46.3% | 46.0% | 300 | .180 | .477 | |
| Slider | 585 | 86.3 | 2,061 | 51.8% | 43.1% | 140 | .221 | .604 |
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- Dylan Lee2026 Wild Card Series
- Cam Schlittler2026 leaders
- Michael Sorokasimilar 2026 seasons
- Didier Fuentes2026 Wild Card Series
- Jesús Luzardo2026 leaders
- Nathan Eovaldisimilar 2025 seasons
- Dylan Cease2026 leaders
- Bubba Chandlersimilar 2025 seasons
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Nearest 2026 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.