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Keider Montero

Age: 26
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 145 lb
Number: #54

Born: July 6, 2000 in Santa Teresa del Tuy, Venezuela
MLB debut: May 29, 2024

dbWAR: 1.9
IP: 155.0
ERA: 3.48
FIP: 3.98
K/9: 6.2
FIP−: 95

Keider Montero is a starting pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 2026 he struck out 107 batters over 155.0 innings across 32 appearances, 25 of them starts, going 10-9. His ERA of 3.48 is 16.6% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 8th of 20 on his team, and 164th of 538 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.98 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 18.4% of swings (8.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 5.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.1%. His 2.0 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.

FIP3.98

K/96.2

WHIP1.04

WAR2.0

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	DET	32	25	155.0	10	9	1	124	60	107	37	3.48	3.98	1.04	6.2	2.1	83	95	2.0
2025	DET	20	12	90.2	5	3	0	95	44	72	31	4.37	4.93	1.39	7.1	3.1	105	119	0.1
2024	DET	19	16	98.1	6	6	0	100	52	77	31	4.76	5.15	1.33	7.0	2.8	117	126	-0.1

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	362	333	74	12	25	53	.222	.278	.381	.289	14.6%
vs RHB	263	241	50	5	12	54	.207	.257	.328	.260	20.5%

Pitch sequencing

What Keider Montero 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


Four-Seam Fastball	30.0%	691	94.3	2,231	46.9%	13.6%	164	.207	.619
Sinker	23.0%	529	94.6	2,233	44.2%	10.0%	136	.235	.656
Slider	19.6%	451	86.0	2,575	49.9%	28.1%	107	.196	.528
Knuckle Curve	13.8%	319	80.3	2,872	40.1%	19.3%	84	.274	.847
Changeup	13.6%	314	87.0	1,993	38.9%	26.5%	84	.167	.490

Keider Montero'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.

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Sandy AlcantaraMIA

ERA: 3.89
FIP: 4.10
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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.