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Joey Cantillo

Cleveland Guardians American League Central

Age: 27
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #54

Born: December 18, 1999 in Honolulu, HI, United States
MLB debut: July 28, 2024
Drafted: 2017, round 16
High school: Kailua

dbWAR: 4.2
IP: 159.0
ERA: 3.62
FIP: 3.98
K/9: 9.7
FIP−: 95

Joey Cantillo is a starting pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians. In 2026 he struck out 171 batters over 159.0 innings across 33 appearances, 30 of them starts, going 11-9. His ERA of 3.62 is 13.3% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 7th of 15 on his team, and 187th 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 29.1% of swings (12.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 24.9%. His 2.3 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/99.7

WHIP1.42

WAR2.3

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	CLE	33	30	159.0	11	9	0	144	64	171	81	3.62	3.98	1.42	9.7	4.6	87	95	2.3
2025	CLE	34	13	95.1	5	3	1	78	34	108	42	3.21	3.55	1.26	10.2	4.0	77	85	1.5
2024	CLE	9	8	38.2	2	4	0	35	21	44	15	4.89	4.07	1.29	10.2	3.5	120	100	0.5

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	171	150	35	3	19	29	.233	.327	.360	.313	17.0%
vs RHB	516	445	109	14	62	142	.245	.340	.393	.330	27.5%

Pitch sequencing

What Joey Cantillo 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	32.8%	900	92.2	1,875	44.7%	14.8%	188	.282	.888
Curveball	30.7%	843	80.0	2,657	48.4%	36.0%	195	.200	.534
Changeup	24.4%	670	81.0	1,445	45.8%	38.9%	139	.194	.638
Cutter	8.2%	224	87.1	2,006	46.0%	25.2%	55	.327	.911
Slider	4.0%	111	82.8	2,325	49.5%	26.8%	21	.333	.915

Joey Cantillo'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.

Hunter BrownHOU

ERA: 3.19
FIP: 3.77
SO: 124
WAR: 1.8

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ERA: 4.59
FIP: 4.10
SO: 102
WAR: 1.1

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Hunter DobbinsSTL

ERA: 3.67
FIP: 4.31
SO: 52
WAR: 0.4

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Luis SeverinoATH

ERA: 4.16
FIP: 4.47
SO: 65
WAR: 0.7

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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.