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Slade Cecconi

Cleveland Guardians American League Central

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 219 lb
Number: #44

Born: June 24, 1999 in Oviedo, FL, United States
MLB debut: August 2, 2023
Drafted: 2018, round 38
College: Miami
High school: Trinity Prep

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dbWAR: 1.9
IP: 121.0
ERA: 4.91
FIP: 4.55
K/9: 7.4
FIP−: 109

Slade Cecconi is a starting pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians. In 2026 he struck out 99 batters over 121.0 innings across 28 appearances, 21 of them starts, going 5-7. His ERA of 4.91 was 17.4% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 13th of 15 on his team, and 389th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.55 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 20.8% of swings (9.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.8%. His 0.8 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.

FIP4.55

K/97.4

WHIP1.43

WAR.8

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	CLE	28	21	121.0	5	7	134	66	99	39	4.91	4.55	1.43	7.4	2.9	117	109	0.8
2025	CLE	23	23	132.0	7	7	125	63	109	32	4.30	4.64	1.19	7.4	2.2	103	112	0.9
2024	AZ	20	13	77.0	2	7	92	57	64	17	6.66	5.02	1.42	7.5	2.0	163	123	-0.0
2023	AZ	7	4	27.0	0	1	27	13	20	4	4.33	4.37	1.15	6.7	1.3	100	101	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

Postseason Slade Cecconi's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2026 Post	CLE	ALCS · through Oct 17	2	0	2.0	2	1	0	4	4.50	1.00	18.0
2025 Post	CLE	Wild Card	1	1	2.1	2	1	1	3	3.86	1.29	11.6
2023 Post	AZ	NLCS	2	0	2.0	2	0	0	1	0.00	1.00	4.5
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	5	1	6.1	6	2	1	8	2.84	1.11	11.4

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.

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	299	268	73	9	25	58	.272	.334	.422	.332	19.4%
vs RHB	229	211	61	10	14	41	.289	.333	.493	.357	17.9%

Pitch sequencing

What Slade Cecconi 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	26.9%	539	93.6	2,374	47.9%	18.3%	125	.280	.788
Cutter	25.7%	515	88.5	2,256	48.3%	23.0%	118	.229	.721
Sinker	20.1%	403	93.5	2,274	43.9%	11.7%	127	.346	.910
Curveball	14.8%	296	76.1	2,430	38.9%	28.0%	55	.255	.730
Slider	5.3%	107	83.7	2,549	40.2%	32.1%	24	.083	.203
Sweeper	5.0%	100	82.6	2,480	39.0%	29.2%	20	.350	1.114
Changeup	2.0%	41	83.1	1,425	29.3%	27.8%	11	—	—

Slade Cecconi'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.

Patrick CorbinTOR

ERA: 5.51
FIP: 4.64
SO: 63
WAR: 0.5

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ERA: 4.44
FIP: 4.76
SO: 129
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ERA: 5.17
FIP: 4.38
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ERA: 5.40
FIP: 4.67
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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.