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Joey Cantillo
- 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
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- dbWAR
- 4.2 Regular season, 3 season(s)
- IP
- 159.0
- ERA
- 3.62
- FIP
- 3.98
- K/9
- 9.7
- FIP−
- 95 100 = avg
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 was 13.4% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 7th of 15 on his team, and 181st of 539 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 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 | 4 | 0 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3.60 | 2.00 | 3.6 |
| ALDS | 1 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5.40 | 1.80 | 5.4 | ||
| ALCS | 3 | 0 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2.70 | 2.10 | 2.7 | ||
| 2025 Post | CLE | Wild Card | 1 | 0 | 2.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3.38 | 1.50 | 10.1 |
| 2024 Post | CLE | Postseason total | 3 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3.86 | 1.71 | 11.6 |
| ALDS | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.0 | ||
| ALCS | 2 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6.75 | 3.00 | 13.5 | ||
| Career | Postseason total · 3 Octobers | 8 | 0 | 10.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 3.60 | 1.80 | 7.2 |
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 | 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.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 900 | 92.2 | 1,875 | 44.7% | 14.8% | 188 | .282 | .888 | |
| Curveball | 843 | 80.0 | 2,657 | 48.4% | 36.0% | 195 | .200 | .534 | |
| Changeup | 670 | 81.0 | 1,445 | 45.8% | 38.9% | 139 | .194 | .638 | |
| Cutter | 224 | 87.1 | 2,006 | 46.0% | 25.2% | 55 | .327 | .911 | |
| Slider | 111 | 82.8 | 2,325 | 49.5% | 26.8% | 21 | .333 | .915 |
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- Jack Flahertysimilar 2026 seasons
- Nick Martinez2026 ALCS
- Gavin Williams2026 Cleveland Guardians
- Luis Severinosimilar 2026 seasons
- Griffin Jax2026 ALCS
- Hunter Brownsimilar 2026 seasons
- Sean Burke2026 ALDS
- Hunter Dobbinssimilar 2026 seasons
- Davis Martin2026 ALDS
- Tatsuya Imaisimilar 2026 seasons
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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.