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Anthony Bender

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #37

Born: February 3, 1995 in Petaluma, CA, United States
MLB debut: May 5, 2021
Drafted: 2016, round 20
College: Santa Rosa Junior College
High school: Casa Grande
Salary, 2026: $2.81M

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dbWAR: 3.6
IP: 34.1
ERA: 2.62
FIP: 2.40
K/9: 10.7
FIP−: 57

Anthony Bender is a relief pitcher for the Miami Marlins. In 2026 he struck out 41 batters over 34.1 innings across 35 appearances, going 1-1. His ERA of 2.62 was 37.3% lower than the league average of 4.18 — the best on his team, and 52nd of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 2.40 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 24.0% of swings (9.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 29.3%. His 0.9 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.

FIP2.40

K/910.7

WHIP0.96

WAR.9

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.


2026	MIA	35	0	34.1	1	1	2	21	10	41	12	2.62	2.40	0.96	10.7	3.1	63	57	0.9
2025	MIA	51	0	50.0	3	5	4	32	12	42	21	2.16	3.62	1.06	7.6	3.8	52	87	0.6
2024	MIA	59	0	53.0	5	2	1	50	24	59	18	4.08	2.92	1.28	10.0	3.1	100	72	1.1
2022	MIA	22	0	19.1	1	3	6	17	7	17	8	3.26	4.77	1.29	7.9	3.7	82	120	-0.1
2021	MIA	60	1	61.1	3	2	3	45	19	71	20	2.79	3.19	1.06	10.4	2.9	65	75	1.1

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

																					Trend
2021	MIA	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-122	-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	59	50	10	0	8	19	.200	.322	.220	.261	32.2%
vs RHB	81	74	11	1	4	22	.149	.210	.230	.203	27.2%

Pitch sequencing

What Anthony Bender 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


Sweeper	51.8%	279	83.5	2,860	55.6%	26.8%	77	.143	.362
Sinker	31.7%	171	96.4	2,313	53.8%	18.2%	33	.212	.714
Slider	12.8%	69	86.6	2,753	37.7%	23.3%	12	—	—
Changeup	2.2%	12	88.6	1,426	25.0%	33.3%	2	—	—

Anthony Bender'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.

Tayler SaucedoLAA

ERA: 2.53
FIP: 2.68
SO: 26
WAR: 0.5

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Adrian MorejonSD

ERA: 2.83
FIP: 2.37
SO: 107
WAR: 2.3

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Juan MorilloAZ

ERA: 2.24
FIP: 2.71
SO: 74
WAR: 1.5

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Edgardo HenriquezLAD

ERA: 2.85
FIP: 2.50
SO: 71
WAR: 1.5

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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.