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Brendon Little

Age: 30
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #54

Born: August 11, 1996 in Bryn Mawr, PA, United States
MLB debut: August 30, 2022
Drafted: 2017, round 1
College: State College of Florida
High school: Conestoga

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dbWAR: 1.0
IP: 28.1
ERA: 6.35
FIP: 4.94
K/9: 14.0
FIP−: 118

Brendon Little is a relief pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2026 he struck out 44 batters over 28.1 innings across 30 appearances, going 0-3. His ERA of 6.35 was 51.9% higher than the league average of 4.18 — the worst on his team, and 505th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.94 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 41.6% of swings (17.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 18.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 33.3%. His -0.1 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.

FIP4.94

K/914.0

WHIP1.91

WAR-.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	TOR	30	28.1	0	3	0	29	20	44	25	6.35	4.94	1.91	14.0	7.9	152	118	-0.1
2025	TOR	79	68.1	4	2	1	48	23	91	45	3.03	2.92	1.36	12.0	5.9	73	70	1.4
2024	TOR	49	45.2	1	2	1	41	19	36	19	3.74	4.90	1.31	7.1	3.7	92	120	-0.1
2022	CHC	1	0.2	0	1	0	2	3	0	1	40.50	31.61	4.50	0.0	13.5	1,021	797	-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

Postseason Brendon Little's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2025 Post	TOR	Postseason total	6	4.0	2	7	5	2	5	3	11.25	3.00	6.8
		ALDS	3	2.2	0	3	1	0	2	1	3.38	1.88	3.4
		ALCS	2	0.1	1	2	3	1	2	1	81.00	12.00	27.0
		World Series	1	1.0	1	2	1	1	1	1	9.00	3.00	9.0

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.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	62	50	7	3	11	22	.140	.295	.340	.295	35.5%
vs RHB	70	56	22	2	14	22	.393	.514	.589	.461	31.4%

Pitch sequencing

What Brendon Little throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Knuckle curveSliderSinkerFour-seam

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Knuckle Curve	28.3%	156	86.6	2,068	41.0%	48.6%	39	.179	.527
Slider	27.5%	152	88.9	2,458	48.0%	50.8%	25	.240	.886
Sinker	27.0%	149	94.5	2,006	45.0%	22.0%	29	.448	1.239
Four-Seam Fastball	16.8%	93	96.0	2,140	55.9%	44.7%	15	.200	.788

Brendon Little's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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How these are computed

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.