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James Karinchak

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #00

Born: September 22, 1995 in Newburgh, NY, United States
MLB debut: September 14, 2019
Drafted: 2017, round 9
College: Bryant

dbWAR: 2.6
IP: 9.2
ERA: 1.86
FIP: 4.34
K/9: 7.4
FIP−: 104

James Karinchak is a relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2026 he struck out 8 batters over 9.2 innings across 9 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 1.86 was 55.5% lower than the league average of 4.18. Stripping out defence, his 4.34 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 26.6% of swings (10.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 13.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.6%. His 0.0 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 regular season.

FIP4.34

K/97.4

WHIP0.93

WAR.0

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2026	ATL	9	9.2	0	0	0	4	2	8	5	1.86	4.34	0.93	7.4	4.7	45	104	0.0
2023	CLE	44	39.0	2	5	0	24	14	52	28	3.23	4.97	1.33	12.0	6.5	75	115	-0.1
2022	CLE	38	39.0	2	0	3	22	9	62	21	2.08	2.29	1.10	14.3	4.8	52	58	1.0
2021	CLE	60	55.1	7	4	11	35	25	78	32	4.07	4.31	1.21	12.7	5.2	95	101	0.3
2020	CLE	27	27.0	1	2	1	14	8	53	16	2.67	1.52	1.11	17.7	5.3	60	34	1.1
2019	CLE	5	5.1	0	0	0	3	1	8	1	1.69	0.78	0.75	13.5	1.7	37	17	0.2

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 James Karinchak's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2022 Post	CLE	Postseason total	4	5.0	3	0	0	4	6	0.00	1.40	10.8
		Wild Card	1	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	0.00	1.00	0.0
		ALDS	3	4.0	3	0	0	3	6	0.00	1.50	13.5
2020 Post	CLE	Wild Card	1	0.0	1	1	1	2	0	—	—	—
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	5	5.0	4	1	1	6	6	1.80	2.00	10.8

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	14	12	3	1	2	3	.250	.357	.583	.401	21.4%
vs RHB	23	19	1	0	3	5	.053	.174	.053	.133	21.7%

Pitch sequencing

What James Karinchak 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	60.5%	98	95.0	2,407	46.9%	24.4%	21	.143	.460
Curveball	39.5%	64	84.0	2,503	40.6%	31.6%	10	—	—

James Karinchak'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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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.