Players · B · Pitcher · 2026 regular season
Ben Brown
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 6"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Number
- #32
- Born
- September 9, 1999 in East Setauket, NY, United States
- MLB debut
- March 30, 2024
- Drafted
- 2017, round 33
- High school
- Ward Melville
Compare with…vs Shota Imanagavs Spencer Milesvs Matthew Boyd
- dbWAR
- 4.1 Regular season, 3 season(s)
- IP
- 68.0
- ERA
- 1.85
- FIP
- 2.50
- K/9
- 8.6
- FIP−
- 60 100 = avg
Ben Brown is a relief pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2026 he struck out 65 batters over 68.0 innings across 20 appearances, going 4-2. His ERA of 1.85 was 55.7% lower than the league average of 4.18 — the best on his team, and 15th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 2.50 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 27.3% of swings (12.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 24.5%. His 1.9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Post | CHC | NLDS | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0.00 | 1.50 | 13.5 |
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 | 143 | 127 | 27 | 0 | 15 | 38 | .213 | .294 | .276 | .265 | 26.6% |
| vs RHB | 122 | 115 | 18 | 2 | 4 | 27 | .157 | .197 | .217 | .189 | 22.1% |
Pitch sequencing
What Ben Brown 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 | 371 | 96.3 | 2,213 | 50.9% | 15.6% | 81 | .247 | .661 | |
| Knuckle Curve | 366 | 86.8 | 2,306 | 48.4% | 44.3% | 97 | .124 | .351 | |
| Sinker | 207 | 96.4 | 2,148 | 43.0% | 13.0% | 49 | .224 | .528 | |
| Changeup | 60 | 90.1 | 1,290 | 28.3% | 34.8% | 15 | .133 | .400 |
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- Matthew Boyd2026 Chicago Cubs
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- David Bednarsimilar 2026 seasons
- Juan Morillosimilar 2026 seasons
- Robert Suarezsimilar 2026 seasons
- J.T. Ginnsimilar 2025 seasons
- Zebby Matthewssimilar 2025 seasons
- Ryan Gustosimilar 2025 seasons
- Aaron Nolasimilar 2025 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.