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Patrick Sandoval
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Number
- #43
- Born
- October 18, 1996 in Mission Viejo, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- August 5, 2019
- Drafted
- 2015, round 11
- High school
- Mission Viejo
- Salary, 2026
- $12.8M
- dbWAR
- 9.3 Regular season, 9 season(s)
- IP
- 70.1
- ERA
- 5.12
- FIP
- 3.77
- K/9
- 9.3
- FIP−
- 90 100 = avg
Patrick Sandoval is a starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2026 he struck out 73 batters over 70.1 innings across 15 appearances, 13 of them starts, going 1-7. His ERA of 5.12 was 22.4% higher than the league average of 4.18 — the second worst on his team, and 410th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.77 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 25.3% of swings (12.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 22.7%. His 1.2 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.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | BOS | 15 | 13 | 70.1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 86 | 40 | 73 | 32 | 5.12 | 3.77 | 1.68 | 9.3 | 4.1 | 122 | 90 | 1.2 | |
| 2024 | LAA | 16 | 16 | 79.2 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 85 | 45 | 81 | 35 | 5.08 | 3.87 | 1.51 | 9.2 | 4.0 | 125 | 95 | 1.2 | |
| 2023 | LAA | 28 | 28 | 144.2 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 145 | 66 | 128 | 74 | 4.11 | 4.18 | 1.51 | 8.0 | 4.6 | 95 | 97 | 2.0 | |
| 2022 | LAA | 27 | 27 | 148.2 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 139 | 48 | 151 | 60 | 2.91 | 3.09 | 1.34 | 9.1 | 3.6 | 73 | 78 | 3.4 | |
| 2021 | LAA | 17 | 14 | 87.0 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 69 | 35 | 94 | 36 | 3.62 | 4.03 | 1.21 | 9.7 | 3.7 | 85 | 95 | 1.2 | |
| 2020 | LAA | 9 | 6 | 36.2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 37 | 23 | 33 | 12 | 5.65 | 5.92 | 1.34 | 8.1 | 2.9 | 127 | 133 | -0.2 | |
| 2019 | LAA | 10 | 9 | 39.1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 35 | 22 | 42 | 19 | 5.03 | 4.59 | 1.37 | 9.6 | 4.3 | 112 | 102 | 0.4 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
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 | 89 | 78 | 28 | 3 | 9 | 23 | .359 | .432 | .526 | .422 | 25.8% |
| vs RHB | 232 | 204 | 58 | 4 | 23 | 50 | .284 | .353 | .407 | .338 | 21.6% |
Pitch sequencing
What Patrick Sandoval 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.
| Changeup | 342 | 83.2 | 1,698 | 45.3% | 39.7% | 88 | .170 | .406 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 309 | 93.4 | 2,054 | 53.7% | 16.4% | 73 | .356 | 1.023 | |
| Slider | 252 | 86.6 | 2,547 | 42.5% | 27.5% | 50 | .300 | .788 | |
| Sinker | 207 | 93.9 | 2,057 | 46.4% | 13.2% | 45 | .400 | 1.118 | |
| Sweeper | 61 | 80.4 | 2,652 | 37.7% | 20.6% | 23 | .478 | 1.130 | |
| Curveball | 48 | 75.6 | 2,698 | 35.4% | 22.2% | 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.