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Cristian Javier

Age: 29
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #53

Born: March 26, 1997 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: July 25, 2020
Salary, 2026: $21.4M

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dbWAR: 6.5
IP: 63.0
ERA: 5.14
FIP: 4.72
K/9: 8.4
FIP−: 113

Cristian Javier is a starting pitcher for the Houston Astros. In 2026 he struck out 59 batters over 63.0 innings across 17 appearances, 12 of them starts, going 2-6. His ERA of 5.14 was 23.0% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 13th of 20 on his team, and 412th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.72 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 29.0% of swings (14.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.4%. 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.

FIP4.72

K/98.4

WHIP1.46

WAR.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2026	HOU	17	12	63.0	2	6	0	64	36	59	28	5.14	4.72	1.46	8.4	4.0	123	113	0.2
2025	HOU	8	8	37.0	2	4	0	32	19	34	15	4.62	3.65	1.27	8.3	3.6	111	88	0.7
2024	HOU	7	7	34.2	3	1	0	30	15	27	19	3.89	4.75	1.41	7.0	4.9	95	117	0.2
2023	HOU	31	31	162.0	10	5	0	143	82	159	62	4.56	4.58	1.27	8.8	3.4	105	106	1.5
2022	HOU	30	25	148.2	11	9	0	89	42	194	52	2.54	3.16	0.95	11.7	3.1	64	80	3.1
2021	HOU	36	9	101.1	4	1	2	67	40	130	53	3.55	4.43	1.18	11.5	4.7	83	104	0.6
2020	HOU	12	10	54.1	5	2	0	36	21	54	18	3.48	4.94	0.99	8.9	3.0	78	111	0.3

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 Cristian Javier's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2023 Post	HOU	Postseason total	3	3	11.0	2	1	8	5	2	7	12	4.09	1.36	9.8
		ALDS	1	1	5.0	1	0	1	0	0	5	9	0.00	1.20	16.2
		ALCS	2	2	6.0	1	1	7	5	2	2	3	7.50	1.50	4.5
2022 Post	HOU	Postseason total	3	2	12.2	2	0	2	1	1	5	16	0.71	0.55	11.4
		ALDS	1	0	1.1	0	0	1	1	1	0	2	6.75	0.75	13.5
		ALCS	1	1	5.1	1	0	1	0	0	3	5	0.00	0.75	8.4
		World Series	1	1	6.0	1	0	0	0	0	2	9	0.00	0.33	13.5
2021 Post	HOU	Postseason total	6	0	10.2	0	1	7	4	3	6	19	3.38	1.22	16.0
		ALDS	1	0	2.2	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	0.00	0.75	20.3
		ALCS	2	0	5.0	0	0	3	0	0	2	7	0.00	1.00	12.6
		World Series	3	0	3.0	0	1	4	4	3	2	6	12.00	2.00	18.0
2020 Post	HOU	Postseason total	5	0	9.1	2	0	5	3	1	5	13	2.89	1.07	12.5
		Wild Card	1	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	0.00	0.67	6.0
		ALDS	2	0	3.1	1	0	3	0	0	1	6	0.00	1.20	16.2
		ALCS	2	0	3.0	0	0	2	3	1	2	5	9.00	1.33	15.0
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	17	5	43.2	6	2	22	13	7	23	60	2.68	1.03	12.4

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	140	128	33	3	11	26	.258	.321	.383	.315	18.6%
vs RHB	136	117	31	7	17	33	.265	.360	.487	.371	24.3%

Pitch sequencing

What Cristian Javier 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


Four-Seam Fastball	47.2%	524	93.2	2,191	49.0%	27.0%	104	.298	.863
Sweeper	26.8%	297	81.3	2,525	46.5%	37.1%	62	.161	.551
Changeup	16.1%	178	85.5	2,301	41.0%	29.9%	54	.241	.651
Cutter	6.9%	77	88.8	2,307	57.1%	21.2%	18	.389	1.177
Knuckle Curve	1.4%	16	77.6	2,979	31.3%	20.0%	1	—	—
Sinker	1.1%	12	93.1	2,292	25.0%	16.7%	4	—	—

Cristian Javier'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.