Players · S · Pitcher · 2025 regular season
Erik Swanson
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Born
- September 4, 1993 in Fargo, ND, United States
- MLB debut
- April 11, 2019
- Drafted
- 2014, round 8
- College
- Iowa Western CC
- High school
- Mariemont
- Salary, 2025
- $3M
- dbWAR
- 1.2 Regular season, 8 season(s)
- IP
- 5.1
- ERA
- 15.19
- FIP
- 10.26
- K/9
- 5.1
- FIP−
- 247 100 = avg
Erik Swanson was a relief pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2025 he struck out 3 batters over 5.1 innings across 6 appearances, going 1-0. His ERA of 15.19 was 265.2% higher than the league average of 4.16. Stripping out defence, his 10.26 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 18.6% of swings (8.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 16.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 10.0%. His -0.3 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, 2025 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | TOR | 6 | 0 | 5.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 15.19 | 10.26 | 2.44 | 5.1 | 8.4 | 365 | 247 | -0.3 | |
| 2024 | TOR | 45 | 0 | 39.1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 36 | 22 | 37 | 14 | 5.03 | 6.06 | 1.27 | 8.5 | 3.2 | 123 | 149 | -0.7 | |
| 2023 | TOR | 69 | 0 | 66.2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 52 | 22 | 75 | 21 | 2.97 | 3.51 | 1.09 | 10.1 | 2.8 | 69 | 81 | 1.0 | |
| 2022 | SEA | 57 | 1 | 53.2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 39 | 10 | 70 | 10 | 1.68 | 1.85 | 0.91 | 11.7 | 1.7 | 42 | 47 | 1.7 | |
| 2021 | SEA | 33 | 2 | 35.1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 28 | 13 | 35 | 10 | 3.31 | 3.96 | 1.08 | 8.9 | 2.5 | 78 | 93 | 0.3 | |
| 2020 | SEA | 9 | 0 | 7.2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 12.91 | 7.50 | 1.70 | 10.6 | 2.3 | 290 | 168 | -0.2 | |
| 2019 | SEA | 27 | 8 | 58.0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 56 | 37 | 52 | 12 | 5.74 | 5.96 | 1.17 | 8.1 | 1.9 | 127 | 132 | -0.5 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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| 2019 | SEA | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .000 | -0.6 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Post | TOR | Wild Card | 2 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0.00 | 2.25 | 13.5 |
| 2022 Post | SEA | ALDS | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.0 |
| Career | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 3 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0.00 | 1.29 | 11.6 |
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 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .111 | .308 | .222 | .263 | 0.0% |
| vs RHB | 17 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | .538 | .588 | 1.154 | .668 | 17.6% |
Pitch sequencing
What Erik Swanson 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 | 59 | 92.9 | 2,295 | 50.8% | 7.4% | 13 | — | — | |
| Splitter | 56 | 83.3 | 1,214 | 42.9% | 31.0% | 6 | — | — | |
| Slider | 13 | 86.4 | 2,351 | 23.1% | 0.0% | 3 | — | — |
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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.