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Braxton Ashcraft

Pittsburgh Pirates National League Central

Age: 27
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 218 lb
Number: #35

Born: October 5, 1999 in Waco, TX, United States
MLB debut: May 26, 2025
Drafted: 2018, round 2
High school: Robinson

dbWAR: 5.2
IP: 165.1
ERA: 3.70
FIP: 3.50
K/9: 9.4
FIP−: 84

Braxton Ashcraft is a starting pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2026 he struck out 173 batters over 165.1 innings across 28 appearances, 28 of them starts, going 14-6. His ERA of 3.70 is 11.4% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 5th of 15 on his team, and 206th of 538 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.50 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 25.6% of swings (13.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 5.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 25.9%. His 3.5 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.

FIP3.50

K/99.4

WHIP1.09

WAR3.5

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2026	PIT	28	28	165.1	14	6	0	146	68	173	35	3.70	3.50	1.09	9.4	1.9	89	84	3.5
2025	PIT	26	8	69.2	4	4	0	63	21	71	24	2.71	2.78	1.25	9.2	3.1	65	67	1.7

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	374	338	84	16	25	101	.249	.306	.438	.325	27.0%
vs RHB	293	278	62	6	10	72	.223	.253	.327	.256	24.6%

Pitch sequencing

What Braxton Ashcraft 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	30.6%	739	97.3	2,346	53.3%	17.2%	172	.314	.955
Curveball	26.4%	638	85.0	2,731	54.4%	38.7%	156	.135	.418
Slider	22.2%	536	91.8	2,595	52.6%	30.5%	140	.264	.721
Sinker	16.5%	398	97.1	2,310	43.0%	17.6%	130	.208	.529
Splitter	4.2%	102	91.8	1,909	37.3%	9.1%	19	.368	.737

Braxton Ashcraft'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.

Joe RyanMIN

ERA: 3.79
FIP: 3.70
SO: 159
WAR: 2.5

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Bryan WooSEA

ERA: 4.01
FIP: 3.25
SO: 175
WAR: 3.8

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Logan GilbertSEA

ERA: 3.81
FIP: 3.92
SO: 197
WAR: 2.6

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Ryan WeathersNYY

ERA: 3.60
FIP: 3.62
SO: 143
WAR: 2.7

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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.