Players · C · Pitcher · 2026 regular season
Dylan Cease
- Age
- 31
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Number
- #84
- Born
- December 28, 1995 in Milton, GA, United States
- MLB debut
- July 3, 2019
- Drafted
- 2014, round 6
- High school
- Milton
- Salary, 2026
- $20.9M
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- dbWAR
- 24.2 Regular season, 9 season(s)
- IP
- 169.0
- ERA
- 2.40
- FIP
- 2.56
- K/9
- 12.7
- FIP−
- 61 100 = avg
Dylan Cease is a starting pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2026 he struck out 239 batters over 169.0 innings across 29 appearances, 29 of them starts, going 11-6. His ERA of 2.40 was 42.7% lower than the league average of 4.18 — the third best on his team, and 39th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 2.56 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 33.3% of swings (15.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 34.9%. His 5.3 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 | TOR | 29 | 29 | 169.0 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 108 | 45 | 239 | 78 | 2.40 | 2.56 | 1.10 | 12.7 | 4.2 | 57 | 61 | 5.3 | |
| 2025 | SD | 32 | 32 | 168.0 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 152 | 85 | 215 | 71 | 4.55 | 3.56 | 1.33 | 11.5 | 3.8 | 110 | 86 | 3.1 | |
| 2024 | SD | 33 | 33 | 189.1 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 137 | 73 | 224 | 65 | 3.47 | 3.10 | 1.07 | 10.6 | 3.1 | 85 | 76 | 4.4 | |
| 2023 | CWS | 33 | 33 | 177.0 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 172 | 90 | 214 | 79 | 4.58 | 3.72 | 1.42 | 10.9 | 4.0 | 106 | 86 | 3.4 | |
| 2022 | CWS | 32 | 32 | 184.0 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 126 | 45 | 227 | 78 | 2.20 | 3.10 | 1.11 | 11.1 | 3.8 | 55 | 78 | 4.3 | |
| 2021 | CWS | 32 | 32 | 165.2 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 139 | 72 | 226 | 68 | 3.91 | 3.41 | 1.25 | 12.3 | 3.7 | 92 | 80 | 3.7 | |
| 2020 | CWS | 12 | 12 | 58.1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 50 | 26 | 44 | 34 | 4.01 | 6.36 | 1.44 | 6.8 | 5.2 | 90 | 143 | -0.5 | |
| 2019 | CWS | 14 | 14 | 73.0 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 78 | 47 | 81 | 35 | 5.79 | 5.19 | 1.55 | 10.0 | 4.3 | 129 | 115 | 0.3 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | CWS | 3 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .375 | .375 | .500 | .125 | .600 | 0.0% | 37.5% | .376 | +0.4 | 140 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Post | SD | Wild Card | 1 | 1 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.00 | 1.09 | 12.3 |
| 2024 Post | SD | NLDS | 2 | 2 | 5.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 14.40 | 2.60 | 10.8 |
| 2021 Post | CWS | ALDS | 1 | 1 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 16.20 | 3.00 | 10.8 |
| 2020 Post | CWS | Wild Card | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.0 |
| Career | Postseason total · 4 Octobers | 5 | 4 | 11.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 8.74 | 1.94 | 10.3 |
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 | 398 | 347 | 58 | 8 | 46 | 144 | .167 | .267 | .271 | .252 | 36.2% |
| vs RHB | 287 | 252 | 50 | 3 | 32 | 95 | .198 | .289 | .270 | .262 | 33.1% |
Pitch sequencing
What Dylan Cease 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.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 1,072 | 96.8 | 2,456 | 52.3% | 25.4% | 219 | .201 | .669 | |
| Slider | 870 | 88.7 | 2,717 | 52.5% | 44.2% | 216 | .144 | .409 | |
| Changeup | 330 | 81.4 | 1,738 | 38.8% | 48.0% | 61 | .131 | .350 | |
| Knuckle Curve | 292 | 81.7 | 2,663 | 42.8% | 28.6% | 32 | .219 | .555 | |
| Sinker | 228 | 95.8 | 2,393 | 47.8% | 14.2% | 58 | .207 | .613 | |
| Sweeper | 101 | 83.4 | 2,832 | 42.6% | 22.6% | 17 | .353 | .941 |
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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.