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Gavin Williams
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 6' 6"
- Weight
- 250 lb
- Number
- #32
- Born
- July 26, 1999 in Fayetteville, NC, United States
- MLB debut
- June 21, 2023
- Drafted
- 2017, round 30
- College
- East Carolina
- High school
- Cape Fear
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- dbWAR
- 8.0 Regular season, 4 season(s)
- IP
- 184.1
- ERA
- 3.76
- FIP
- 3.48
- K/9
- 12.1
- FIP−
- 83 100 = avg
Gavin Williams is a starting pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians. In 2026 he struck out 248 batters over 184.1 innings across 32 appearances, 32 of them starts, going 14-8. His ERA of 3.76 was 10.1% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 8th of 15 on his team, and 215th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.48 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 32.8% of swings (16.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 33.2%. His 3.8 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 — postseason games are listed separately below.
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Post | CLE | Postseason total · through Oct 15 | 4 | 3 | 16.2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 33 | 2.16 | 0.84 | 17.8 |
| ALDS | 3 | 2 | 11.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 24 | 1.54 | 0.94 | 18.5 | ||
| ALCS | 1 | 1 | 5.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3.60 | 0.60 | 16.2 | ||
| 2025 Post | CLE | Wild Card | 1 | 1 | 6.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 12.0 |
| 2024 Post | CLE | ALCS | 1 | 1 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 11.57 | 1.29 | 15.4 |
| Career | Postseason total · 3 Octobers | 6 | 5 | 25.0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 45 | 2.52 | 0.92 | 16.2 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 445 | 402 | 79 | 14 | 34 | 157 | .197 | .268 | .353 | .277 | 35.3% |
| vs RHB | 301 | 273 | 65 | 14 | 27 | 91 | .238 | .309 | .418 | .321 | 30.2% |
Pitch sequencing
What Gavin Williams 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.
| Sweeper | 851 | 87.5 | 2,302 | 53.5% | 44.0% | 196 | .158 | .517 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 809 | 97.6 | 2,300 | 52.3% | 31.8% | 167 | .192 | .603 | |
| Curveball | 665 | 82.6 | 2,467 | 49.0% | 31.3% | 155 | .213 | .640 | |
| Sinker | 461 | 97.0 | 2,049 | 53.1% | 16.1% | 107 | .318 | .929 | |
| Cutter | 174 | 92.4 | 2,226 | 50.6% | 25.3% | 42 | .262 | .973 | |
| Unknown | 31 | — | — | 64.5% | 35.3% | 10 | — | — |
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Or read one already written — Gavin Williams against:
- Drew Rasmussen2026 ALCS
- Jacob Misiorowski2026 leaders
- Joey Cantillo2026 Cleveland Guardians
- Jared Jonessimilar 2026 seasons
- Nick Martinez2026 ALCS
- Cam Schlittler2026 leaders
- Cade Smith2025 Cleveland Guardians
- Johan Oviedosimilar 2025 seasons
- Griffin Jax2026 ALCS
- Cristopher Sánchez2026 leaders
- Tanner Bibee2025 Cleveland Guardians
- Kodai Sengasimilar 2025 seasons
Similar players
Nearest 2026 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.