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Cade Smith
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 5"
- Weight
- 230 lb
- Number
- #36
- Born
- May 9, 1999 in Vancouver, BC, Canada
- MLB debut
- March 30, 2024
- Drafted
- 2017, round 16
- College
- Hawaii
- High school
- M.E.I.
Compare with…vs Drew Rasmussenvs Tanner Bibeevs Mason Miller
- dbWAR
- 7.4 Regular season, 3 season(s)
- IP
- 74.0
- ERA
- 1.95
- FIP
- 2.18
- K/9
- 13.0
- FIP−
- 52 100 = avg
Cade Smith is a relief pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians. In 2026 he struck out 107 batters over 74.0 innings across 69 appearances, going 6-1. His ERA of 1.95 was 53.5% lower than the league average of 4.18 — the best on his team, and 21st of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 2.18 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 34.5% of swings (17.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 36.3%. His 2.2 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.
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 19 | 9 | 0 | 11.1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 2.38 | 0.53 | 11.1 |
| ALDS | 5 | 0 | 6.2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 1.35 | 0.45 | 14.8 | ||
| ALCS | 4 | 0 | 4.2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3.86 | 0.64 | 5.8 | ||
| 2025 Post | CLE | Wild Card | 3 | 0 | 3.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0.00 | 0.60 | 10.8 |
| 2024 Post | CLE | Postseason total | 9 | 0 | 10.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 3.60 | 0.70 | 14.4 |
| ALDS | 5 | 0 | 6.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 1.42 | 0.47 | 17.1 | ||
| ALCS | 4 | 0 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7.36 | 1.09 | 9.8 | ||
| Career | Postseason total · 3 Octobers | 21 | 0 | 24.2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 34 | 2.55 | 0.61 | 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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 170 | 154 | 25 | 3 | 12 | 64 | .162 | .218 | .253 | .210 | 37.6% |
| vs RHB | 125 | 109 | 23 | 2 | 11 | 43 | .211 | .306 | .312 | .287 | 34.4% |
Pitch sequencing
What Cade Smith 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 | 789 | 97.5 | 2,371 | 58.2% | 29.9% | 174 | .213 | .607 | |
| Splitter | 308 | 87.1 | 578 | 43.2% | 45.3% | 65 | .092 | .257 | |
| Sweeper | 129 | 85.5 | 2,150 | 47.3% | 35.4% | 20 | .200 | .788 | |
| Unknown | 12 | — | — | 66.7% | 62.5% | 4 | — | — |
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Or read one already written — Cade Smith against:
- Drew Rasmussen2026 ALCS
- Tanner Bibee2025 Cleveland Guardians
- Mason Miller2026 relievers
- Josh Hadersimilar 2026 seasons
- Nick Martinez2026 ALCS
- Gavin Williams2025 Cleveland Guardians
- Louis Varland2026 relievers
- Mason Montgomerysimilar 2026 seasons
- Griffin Jax2026 ALCS
- Spencer Miles2026 relievers
- Tanner Scottsimilar 2026 seasons
- Sean Burke2026 ALDS
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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.