Players · S · Pitcher · 2026 regular season
John Schreiber
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 224 lb
- Number
- #56
- Born
- March 5, 1994 in Wyandotte, MI, United States
- MLB debut
- August 9, 2019
- Drafted
- 2016, round 15
- College
- Northwestern Ohio
- High school
- Oscar A. Carlson
- Salary, 2026
- $3.71M
- dbWAR
- 3.7 Regular season, 8 season(s)
- IP
- 60.1
- ERA
- 3.28
- FIP
- 4.63
- K/9
- 6.0
- FIP−
- 111 100 = avg
John Schreiber is a relief pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2026 he struck out 40 batters over 60.1 innings across 66 appearances, going 2-4. His ERA of 3.28 was 21.5% lower than the league average of 4.18 — the second best on his team, and 131st of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.63 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 20.9% of swings (9.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.3%. 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.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | KC/NYY | 66 | 0 | 60.1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 49 | 22 | 40 | 26 | 3.28 | 4.63 | 1.24 | 6.0 | 3.9 | 78 | 111 | 0.1 | |
| 2025 | KC | 74 | 0 | 64.0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 57 | 27 | 62 | 19 | 3.80 | 4.17 | 1.19 | 8.7 | 2.7 | 91 | 100 | 0.3 | |
| 2024 | KC | 59 | 0 | 51.2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 48 | 21 | 46 | 20 | 3.66 | 3.03 | 1.32 | 8.0 | 3.5 | 90 | 74 | 1.0 | |
| 2023 | BOS | 46 | 2 | 46.2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 41 | 20 | 53 | 25 | 3.86 | 4.52 | 1.41 | 10.2 | 4.8 | 89 | 104 | 0.2 | |
| 2022 | BOS | 64 | 0 | 65.0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 45 | 16 | 74 | 19 | 2.22 | 2.50 | 0.98 | 10.2 | 2.6 | 56 | 63 | 1.6 | |
| 2021 | BOS | 1 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3.00 | 0.84 | 1.67 | 15.0 | 3.0 | 70 | 20 | 0.1 | |
| 2020 | DET | 15 | 0 | 15.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 6.32 | 4.02 | 1.47 | 8.0 | 2.3 | 142 | 90 | 0.2 | |
| 2019 | DET | 13 | 0 | 13.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 19 | 4 | 6.23 | 4.44 | 1.54 | 13.2 | 2.8 | 138 | 99 | 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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Post | NYY | Postseason total · through Oct 5 | 2 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.0 |
| Wild Card | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.0 | ||
| ALDS | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.0 | ||
| 2024 Post | KC | Postseason total | 5 | 0 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0.00 | 1.09 | 9.8 |
| Wild Card | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.0 | ||
| ALDS | 4 | 0 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0.00 | 1.50 | 6.8 | ||
| Career | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 7 | 0 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0.00 | 0.71 | 9.5 |
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 | 119 | 100 | 31 | 5 | 19 | 11 | .310 | .420 | .550 | .413 | 9.2% |
| vs RHB | 127 | 116 | 18 | 2 | 7 | 29 | .155 | .206 | .233 | .200 | 22.8% |
Pitch sequencing
What John Schreiber 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.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 281 | 93.8 | 2,270 | 46.6% | 24.6% | 65 | .185 | .643 | |
| Sweeper | 270 | 82.4 | 2,666 | 46.7% | 26.7% | 46 | .217 | .794 | |
| Sinker | 255 | 93.3 | 2,219 | 40.0% | 13.8% | 71 | .282 | .682 | |
| Cutter | 126 | 89.6 | 2,457 | 55.6% | 17.9% | 20 | .200 | .611 | |
| Changeup | 65 | 86.7 | 1,228 | 26.2% | 15.4% | 16 | .188 | .500 |
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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.