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Luinder Avila

Kansas City Royals American League Central

Age: 25
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #58

Born: August 21, 2001 in Caracas, Venezuela
MLB debut: August 13, 2025

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dbWAR: .9
IP: 70.0
ERA: 5.53
FIP: 4.55
K/9: 7.8
FIP−: 109

Luinder Avila is a starting pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2026 he struck out 61 batters over 70.0 innings across 21 appearances, 12 of them starts, going 5-4. His ERA of 5.53 was 32.2% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 15th of 19 on his team, and 450th 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 23.9% of swings (10.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 13.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.7%. His 0.5 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 regular season.

FIP4.55

K/97.8

WHIP1.61

WAR.5

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

																				Trend
2026	KC	21	12	70.0	5	4	0	71	43	61	42	5.53	4.55	1.61	7.8	5.4	132	109	0.5
2025	KC	13	0	14.0	1	1	0	7	2	16	6	1.29	2.14	0.93	10.3	3.9	31	51	0.4

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	188	167	43	3	18	39	.257	.326	.371	.313	20.7%
vs RHB	121	94	28	4	24	22	.298	.450	.521	.430	18.2%

Pitch sequencing

What Luinder Avila 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


Sinker	27.4%	354	96.4	2,409	44.4%	18.5%	76	.276	.757
Four-Seam Fastball	26.0%	336	96.1	2,490	43.2%	16.2%	72	.292	.810
Slider	21.7%	280	88.1	2,702	43.9%	34.8%	58	.207	.789
Curveball	14.7%	190	83.0	2,716	48.9%	24.0%	30	.333	1.005
Changeup	10.3%	133	89.4	2,064	34.6%	37.0%	28	.250	.597

Luinder Avila'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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Similar players

Nearest 2026 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Elmer RodríguezNYY

ERA: 5.40
FIP: 4.87
SO: 21
WAR: 0.1

Juan MejiaCOL

ERA: 5.27
FIP: 4.17
SO: 66
WAR: 0.5

Jackson KentWSH

ERA: 5.94
FIP: 4.23
SO: 30
WAR: 0.4

Cody BoltonHOU

ERA: 5.40
FIP: 5.10
SO: 22
WAR: -0.1

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.