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Tyler Holton

Age: 30
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #87

Born: June 13, 1996 in Tallahassee, FL, United States
MLB debut: April 28, 2022
Drafted: 2018, round 9
College: Florida State
High school: Lincoln
Salary, 2026: $1.57M

dbWAR: 3.7
IP: 72.0
ERA: 2.75
FIP: 4.06
K/9: 6.9
FIP−: 97

Tyler Holton is a relief pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 2026 he struck out 55 batters over 72.0 innings across 67 appearances, going 2-5. His ERA of 2.75 is 34.2% lower than the league average of 4.18 — the third best on his team, and 70th of 538 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.06 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 23.4% of swings (11.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.3%. His 0.5 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.

FIP4.06

K/96.9

WHIP1.25

WAR.5

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	DET	67	3	72.0	2	5	2	71	22	55	19	2.75	4.06	1.25	6.9	2.4	66	97	0.5
2025	DET	70	6	78.2	6	5	0	65	32	64	17	3.66	4.64	1.04	7.3	1.9	88	111	0.1
2024	DET	66	9	94.1	7	2	8	57	23	77	17	2.19	3.17	0.78	7.3	1.6	54	78	1.7
2023	DET	59	1	85.1	3	2	1	56	20	74	18	2.11	3.56	0.87	7.8	1.9	49	82	1.3
2022	AZ	10	0	9.0	0	0	0	8	3	6	2	3.00	4.22	1.11	6.0	2.0	76	106	0.0

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	129	118	31	3	9	27	.263	.320	.381	.314	20.9%
vs RHB	172	156	40	5	10	28	.256	.322	.397	.321	16.3%

Pitch sequencing

What Tyler Holton 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.

Season


Cutter	31.7%	359	87.7	2,392	49.6%	20.9%	93	.258	.690
Sinker	20.3%	230	91.0	2,074	47.4%	10.5%	60	.333	.845
Changeup	16.4%	186	83.4	1,478	36.6%	33.3%	49	.224	.633
Sweeper	15.4%	174	79.9	2,796	40.2%	42.3%	42	.167	.472
Four-Seam Fastball	12.7%	144	91.5	2,182	47.2%	13.6%	26	.269	.732
Curveball	3.4%	38	79.1	2,783	23.7%	33.3%	5	—	—

Tyler Holton'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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Nearest 2026 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Brent SuterLAA

ERA: 3.48
FIP: 3.61
SO: 75
WAR: 1.0

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Casey LeguminaTB

ERA: 3.82
FIP: 3.98
SO: 55
WAR: 0.7

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Brennan BernardinoCOL

ERA: 2.87
FIP: 3.56
SO: 48
WAR: 0.9

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JoJo RomeroSTL

ERA: 3.13
FIP: 4.11
SO: 51
WAR: 0.3

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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.