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Will Vest
- Age
- 31
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 180 lb
- Number
- #19
- Born
- June 6, 1995 in Houston, TX, United States
- MLB debut
- April 1, 2021
- Drafted
- 2017, round 12
- College
- Stephen F. Austin State
- Salary, 2026
- $3.95M
- dbWAR
- 5.7 Regular season, 6 season(s)
- IP
- 26.2
- ERA
- 6.07
- FIP
- 3.40
- K/9
- 9.1
- FIP−
- 81 100 = avg
Will Vest is a relief pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 2026 he struck out 27 batters over 26.2 innings across 27 appearances, going 3-5. His ERA of 6.07 was 45.3% higher than the league average of 4.18 — the worst on his team, and 491st of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.40 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 27.2% of swings (13.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 23.3%. His 0.4 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.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DET | 27 | 0 | 26.2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 28 | 18 | 27 | 10 | 6.07 | 3.40 | 1.43 | 9.1 | 3.4 | 145 | 81 | 0.4 | |
| 2025 | DET | 64 | 0 | 68.2 | 6 | 5 | 23 | 61 | 23 | 75 | 22 | 3.01 | 2.71 | 1.21 | 9.8 | 2.9 | 72 | 65 | 1.6 | |
| 2024 | DET | 69 | 0 | 70.1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 61 | 22 | 63 | 18 | 2.82 | 2.83 | 1.12 | 8.1 | 2.3 | 69 | 69 | 1.5 | |
| 2023 | DET | 48 | 4 | 48.1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 40 | 16 | 56 | 13 | 2.98 | 2.55 | 1.10 | 10.4 | 2.4 | 69 | 59 | 1.3 | |
| 2022 | DET | 59 | 2 | 63.0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 62 | 28 | 63 | 22 | 4.00 | 3.54 | 1.33 | 9.0 | 3.1 | 101 | 89 | 0.7 | |
| 2021 | SEA | 32 | 0 | 35.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 24 | 27 | 18 | 6.17 | 4.17 | 1.60 | 6.9 | 4.6 | 145 | 98 | 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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Post | DET | Postseason total | 5 | 0 | 8.0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.00 | 0.25 | 10.1 |
| Wild Card | 2 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 0.33 | 6.0 | ||
| ALDS | 3 | 0 | 5.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.00 | 0.20 | 12.6 | ||
| 2024 Post | DET | Postseason total | 6 | 0 | 6.0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1.50 | 0.50 | 13.5 |
| Wild Card | 2 | 0 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.9 | ||
| ALDS | 4 | 0 | 3.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2.70 | 0.90 | 10.8 | ||
| Career | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 11 | 0 | 14.0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0.64 | 0.36 | 11.6 |
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 | 59 | 49 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 17 | .245 | .345 | .265 | .291 | 28.8% |
| vs RHB | 57 | 53 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 10 | .302 | .351 | .491 | .367 | 17.5% |
Pitch sequencing
What Will Vest 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 | 214 | 95.8 | 2,250 | 55.1% | 19.2% | 47 | .362 | .986 | |
| Slider | 140 | 87.8 | 2,663 | 42.9% | 41.4% | 32 | .250 | .555 | |
| Sinker | 75 | 95.3 | 2,147 | 50.7% | 5.6% | 17 | .176 | .535 | |
| Changeup | 55 | 89.4 | 1,617 | 36.4% | 54.5% | 6 | — | — |
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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.