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Phil Maton

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 206 lb
Number: #88

Born: March 25, 1993 in Paducah, KY, United States
MLB debut: June 11, 2017
Drafted: 2015, round 20
College: Louisiana Tech
Salary, 2026: $5.5M

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dbWAR: 4.7
IP: 27.2
ERA: 6.18
FIP: 5.49
K/9: 10.1
FIP−: 131

Phil Maton is a relief pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2026 he struck out 31 batters over 27.2 innings across 31 appearances, going 0-1. His ERA of 6.18 was 47.8% higher than the league average of 4.18 — the worst on his team, and 497th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.49 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 25.7% of swings (12.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 22.8%. His -0.2 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.

FIP5.49

K/910.1

WHIP1.81

WAR-.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2026	CHC	31	0	27.2	0	1	0	34	19	31	16	6.18	5.49	1.81	10.1	5.2	148	131	-0.2
2025	STL/TEX	63	0	61.1	4	5	5	42	19	81	23	2.79	2.60	1.06	11.9	3.4	67	62	1.4
2024	TB/NYM	71	0	64.0	3	3	3	47	26	60	24	3.66	4.26	1.11	8.4	3.4	90	104	0.2
2023	HOU	68	0	66.0	4	3	1	49	22	74	25	3.00	3.74	1.12	10.1	3.4	69	86	0.8
2022	HOU	67	0	65.2	0	2	0	58	28	73	24	3.84	4.33	1.25	10.0	3.3	97	109	0.1
2021	CLE/HOU	65	1	66.2	6	0	0	65	35	85	32	4.72	3.50	1.45	11.5	4.3	111	82	1.0
2020	CLE	23	0	21.2	3	3	0	23	11	32	6	4.57	2.22	1.34	13.3	2.5	103	50	0.7
2019	SD/CLE	30	0	36.2	0	0	0	38	25	33	12	6.14	5.04	1.36	8.1	2.9	136	112	-0.0
2018	SD	45	0	47.1	0	2	0	50	23	55	23	4.37	3.24	1.54	10.5	4.4	105	78	0.8
2017	SD	46	0	43.0	3	2	1	41	20	46	14	4.19	5.09	1.28	9.6	2.9	96	117	-0.1

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2021	CLE	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-122	-0.0
2019	SD	4	4	1	0	1	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.000	.500	0.0%	50.0%	.218	-0.4	30	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

Postseason Phil Maton'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
2024 Post	NYM	Postseason total	6	6.1	1	11	6	4	4	6	8.53	2.37	8.5
		Wild Card	1	1.0	1	4	3	2	0	0	27.00	4.00	0.0
		NLDS	2	1.2	0	3	1	0	1	3	5.40	2.40	16.2
		NLCS	3	3.2	0	4	2	2	3	3	4.91	1.91	7.4
2023 Post	HOU	Postseason total	6	6.0	0	1	0	0	1	7	0.00	0.33	10.5
		ALDS	2	1.2	0	0	0	0	1	2	0.00	0.60	10.8
		ALCS	4	4.1	0	1	0	0	0	5	0.00	0.23	10.4
2021 Post	HOU	Postseason total	12	12.1	0	9	1	1	3	14	0.73	0.97	10.2
		ALDS	3	3.0	0	1	0	0	0	3	0.00	0.33	9.0
		ALCS	4	3.2	0	1	1	1	1	3	2.45	0.55	7.4
		World Series	5	5.2	0	7	0	0	2	8	0.00	1.59	12.7
2020 Post	CLE	Wild Card	2	3.1	0	1	1	0	1	1	2.70	0.60	2.7
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	26	28.0	1	22	8	5	9	28	2.57	1.11	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	59	48	15	3	8	12	.313	.424	.625	.445	20.3%
vs RHB	77	63	19	2	8	19	.302	.395	.429	.369	24.7%

Pitch sequencing

What Phil Maton 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	36.8%	201	89.5	2,561	50.7%	23.2%	40	.325	.775
Curveball	28.9%	158	75.6	3,117	44.9%	32.1%	44	.250	.835
Sinker	19.0%	104	90.2	2,303	56.7%	14.0%	17	.294	.991
Sweeper	15.2%	83	83.2	2,736	51.8%	32.4%	10	—	—

Phil Maton'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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Similar players

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

Bennett SousaHOU

ERA: 6.00
FIP: 4.94
SO: 32
WAR: -0.1

Very close

Gus VarlandWSH

ERA: 6.55
FIP: 5.29
SO: 32
WAR: -0.2

Alex LangeKC

ERA: 6.75
FIP: 5.87
SO: 60
WAR: -0.7

Caleb FergusonCIN

ERA: 5.18
FIP: 4.92
SO: 31
WAR: -0.1

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.