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Shane Bieber

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #57

Born: May 31, 1995 in Orange, CA, United States
MLB debut: May 31, 2018
Drafted: 2016, round 4
College: UC Santa Barbara
High school: Laguna Hills
Salary, 2026: $4M

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dbWAR: 21.9
IP: 55.2
ERA: 4.53
FIP: 5.15
K/9: 7.1
FIP−: 123

Shane Bieber is a starting pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2026 he struck out 44 batters over 55.2 innings across 11 appearances, 11 of them starts, going 5-2. His ERA of 4.53 was 8.3% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 12th of 16 on his team, and 348th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.15 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 23.5% of swings (10.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.2%. 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.

FIP5.15

K/97.1

WHIP1.44

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	11	11	55.2	5	2	56	28	44	24	4.53	5.15	1.44	7.1	3.9	108	123	0.1
2025	TOR	7	7	40.1	4	2	34	16	37	7	3.57	4.47	1.02	8.3	1.6	86	108	0.3
2024	CLE	2	2	12.0	2	0	10	0	20	1	0.00	0.08	0.92	15.0	0.8	0	2	0.7
2023	CLE	21	21	128.0	6	6	124	54	107	34	3.80	3.87	1.23	7.5	2.4	88	89	2.1
2022	CLE	31	31	200.0	13	8	172	64	198	36	2.88	2.87	1.04	8.9	1.6	73	72	5.0
2021	CLE	16	16	96.2	7	4	84	34	134	33	3.17	3.03	1.21	12.5	3.1	74	71	2.5
2020	CLE	12	12	77.1	8	1	46	14	122	21	1.63	2.07	0.87	14.2	2.4	37	46	3.1
2019	CLE	34	33	214.1	15	8	186	78	259	40	3.28	3.32	1.05	10.9	1.7	73	74	5.3
2018	CLE	20	19	114.2	11	5	130	58	118	23	4.55	3.23	1.33	9.3	1.8	110	78	2.7

Batting Regular season

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


2021	CLE	2	6	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.6	-122	-0.0
2019	CLE	2	5	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	60.0%	.000	-1.4	-120	-0.1
2018	CLE	2	5	1	1	2	.250	.400	.500	.250	.500	20.0%	40.0%	.397	+0.3	149	0.1

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 Shane Bieber'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
2025 Post	TOR	Postseason total	5	4	18.2	2	1	21	8	3	6	18	3.86	1.45	8.7
		ALDS	1	1	2.2	0	0	5	2	0	1	2	6.75	2.25	6.8
		ALCS	2	2	9.2	1	0	11	4	2	2	13	3.72	1.34	12.1
		World Series	2	1	6.1	1	1	5	2	1	3	3	2.84	1.26	4.3
2022 Post	CLE	Postseason total	2	2	13.1	1	0	8	3	2	4	15	2.02	0.90	10.1
		Wild Card	1	1	7.2	1	0	3	1	1	1	8	1.17	0.52	9.4
		ALDS	1	1	5.2	0	0	5	2	1	3	7	3.18	1.41	11.1
2020 Post	CLE	Wild Card	1	1	4.2	0	1	9	7	2	2	7	13.50	2.36	13.5
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	8	7	36.2	3	2	38	18	7	12	40	4.42	1.36	9.8

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	133	114	23	6	18	22	.202	.308	.412	.320	16.5%
vs RHB	109	103	33	4	6	22	.320	.358	.476	.365	20.2%

Pitch sequencing

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

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Four-seamChangeupKnuckle curveCutterSliderSinker

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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	36.6%	340	92.3	2,371	45.0%	11.8%	62	.210	.764
Knuckle Curve	18.5%	172	82.6	2,508	45.3%	36.1%	50	.380	.946
Changeup	18.4%	171	88.2	1,419	35.7%	24.3%	37	.135	.526
Cutter	12.2%	113	87.4	2,580	38.9%	21.4%	21	.286	.919
Slider	10.0%	93	85.3	2,598	40.9%	36.5%	34	.324	.861
Sinker	4.4%	41	92.2	2,304	31.7%	10.0%	13	—	—

Shane Bieber'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.

Andrew AbbottCIN

ERA: 4.66
FIP: 4.93
SO: 131
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ERA: 4.38
FIP: 5.00
SO: 28
WAR: 0.1

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ERA: 4.94
FIP: 5.33
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FIP: 5.33
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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.