Players · B · Pitcher · 2026 regular season
Justin Bruihl
- Age
- 29
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 215 lb
- Number
- #47
- Born
- June 26, 1997 in Petaluma, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- August 8, 2021
- College
- Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
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- dbWAR
- .9 Regular season, 7 season(s)
- IP
- 77.2
- ERA
- 3.71
- FIP
- 3.95
- K/9
- 6.1
- FIP−
- 95 100 = avg
Justin Bruihl is a relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2026 he struck out 53 batters over 77.2 innings across 73 appearances, going 1-1. His ERA of 3.71 was 11.3% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 6th of 16 on his team, and 208th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.95 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 17.6% of swings (8.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.3%. His 0.6 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.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | STL | 73 | 0 | 77.2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 75 | 32 | 53 | 28 | 3.71 | 3.95 | 1.33 | 6.1 | 3.2 | 89 | 95 | 0.6 | |
| 2025 | TOR | 15 | 0 | 13.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 8 | 18 | 7 | 5.27 | 4.16 | 1.90 | 11.9 | 4.6 | 127 | 100 | 0.1 | |
| 2024 | PIT | 7 | 0 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 9.53 | 4.75 | 1.76 | 7.9 | 1.6 | 234 | 117 | -0.0 | |
| 2023 | LAD/COL | 27 | 0 | 28.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 17 | 22 | 11 | 5.46 | 4.11 | 1.39 | 7.1 | 3.5 | 126 | 95 | 0.2 | |
| 2022 | LAD | 24 | 0 | 23.2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 3.80 | 5.35 | 1.18 | 4.9 | 2.3 | 96 | 135 | -0.2 | |
| 2021 | LAD | 21 | 2 | 18.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 2.89 | 3.97 | 1.07 | 5.3 | 3.4 | 68 | 93 | 0.2 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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| 2021 | LAD | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | — | — | 100.0% | 0.0% | .725 | +0.3 | 388 | 0.1 | — |
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 | TOR | ALDS | 1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 54.00 | 9.00 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Post | LAD | NLCS | 3 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.00 | 0.50 | 22.5 |
| Career | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 4 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7.71 | 1.71 | 19.3 |
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 | 188 | 161 | 37 | 2 | 12 | 26 | .230 | .317 | .317 | .292 | 13.8% |
| vs RHB | 158 | 135 | 38 | 2 | 16 | 27 | .281 | .357 | .400 | .332 | 17.1% |
Pitch sequencing
What Justin Bruihl 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.
| Sinker | 574 | 90.2 | 2,168 | 48.4% | 8.9% | 132 | .280 | .735 | |
| Sweeper | 536 | 77.9 | 2,547 | 47.2% | 23.6% | 122 | .221 | .607 | |
| Changeup | 112 | 80.3 | 1,428 | 27.7% | 29.8% | 25 | .120 | .388 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 80 | 91.7 | 2,256 | 32.5% | 21.9% | 14 | — | — | |
| Cutter | 12 | 86.9 | 2,425 | 33.3% | 14.3% | 3 | — | — |
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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.