Players · G · Pitcher · 2026 regular season
Kevin Ginkel
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 235 lb
- Number
- #37
- Born
- March 24, 1994 in San Diego, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- August 5, 2019
- Drafted
- 2014, round 16
- College
- Arizona
- Salary, 2026
- $2.75M
- dbWAR
- 4.8 Regular season, 8 season(s)
- IP
- 67.2
- ERA
- 4.12
- FIP
- 3.50
- K/9
- 9.6
- FIP−
- 84 100 = avg
Kevin Ginkel is a relief pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2026 he struck out 72 batters over 67.2 innings across 74 appearances, going 6-4. His ERA of 4.12 was 1.4% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 8th of 16 on his team, and 288th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.50 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 29.3% of swings (14.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 26.2%. His 0.9 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 | AZ | 74 | 0 | 67.2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 59 | 31 | 72 | 17 | 4.12 | 3.50 | 1.12 | 9.6 | 2.3 | 99 | 84 | 0.9 | |
| 2025 | AZ | 29 | 0 | 25.2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 29 | 21 | 29 | 13 | 7.36 | 3.64 | 1.64 | 10.2 | 4.6 | 177 | 88 | 0.3 | |
| 2024 | AZ | 72 | 0 | 70.0 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 69 | 25 | 77 | 15 | 3.21 | 2.85 | 1.20 | 9.9 | 1.9 | 79 | 70 | 1.5 | |
| 2023 | AZ | 60 | 0 | 65.1 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 41 | 18 | 70 | 23 | 2.48 | 2.86 | 0.98 | 9.6 | 3.2 | 57 | 66 | 1.5 | |
| 2022 | AZ | 30 | 0 | 29.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 11 | 30 | 11 | 3.38 | 2.74 | 1.30 | 9.2 | 3.4 | 85 | 69 | 0.6 | |
| 2021 | AZ | 32 | 0 | 28.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 20 | 31 | 14 | 6.35 | 5.89 | 1.55 | 9.8 | 4.4 | 149 | 138 | -0.3 | |
| 2020 | AZ | 19 | 0 | 16.0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 12 | 18 | 13 | 6.75 | 5.82 | 2.13 | 10.1 | 7.3 | 152 | 131 | -0.1 | |
| 2019 | AZ | 25 | 0 | 24.1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 4 | 28 | 9 | 1.48 | 3.09 | 0.99 | 10.4 | 3.3 | 33 | 69 | 0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Post | AZ | Postseason total | 10 | 0 | 11.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 0.00 | 1.11 | 11.6 |
| Wild Card | 2 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.00 | 1.71 | 19.3 | ||
| NLDS | 2 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 13.5 | ||
| NLCS | 4 | 0 | 4.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.00 | 0.43 | 9.6 | ||
| World Series | 2 | 0 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0.00 | 1.88 | 6.8 |
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 | 156 | 139 | 34 | 4 | 13 | 37 | .245 | .303 | .388 | .302 | 23.7% |
| vs RHB | 119 | 113 | 25 | 5 | 4 | 35 | .221 | .252 | .416 | .287 | 29.4% |
Pitch sequencing
What Kevin Ginkel 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.
| Slider | 532 | 85.7 | 2,398 | 46.2% | 41.1% | 133 | .165 | .482 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 507 | 95.7 | 2,407 | 49.7% | 18.8% | 102 | .294 | .885 | |
| Sinker | 60 | 95.2 | 2,270 | 46.7% | 10.3% | 19 | .368 | .874 |
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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.