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Mike Burrows

Age
27
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 1"
Weight
200 lb
Number
#50
Born
November 8, 1999 in Waterford, CT, United States
MLB debut
September 28, 2024
Drafted
2018, round 11
High school
Waterford
dbWAR
.6
3 season(s)
IP
94.2
ERA
5.99
FIP
5.64
K/9
7.1
FIP−
135
100 = avg

Mike Burrows is a starting pitcher for the Houston Astros. In 2026 he struck out 75 batters over 94.2 innings across 18 appearances, 17 of them starts, going 4-9. His ERA of 5.99 is 43.4% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 16th of 20 on his team, and 484th of 538 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.64 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 21.5% of swings (10.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.7%. 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.

FIP5.64
K/97.1
WHIP1.55
WAR-.5

WAR by season

1.20.4-0.5242526

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026HOU181794.24901126375355.995.641.557.13.3143135-0.5
2025PIT231996.0240884297313.944.001.249.12.995961.2
2024PIT103.110021232.708.571.505.48.166210-0.2

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB24321669142637.319.395.574.41915.2%
vs RHB180168437938.256.306.423.32021.1%

Pitch sequencing

What Mike Burrows 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 Fastball28.5%44795.02,27747.9%12.7%96.3131.080
Changeup27.1%42486.71,48243.2%31.4%105.248.652
Slider16.5%25889.52,52746.9%26.8%73.301.858
Curveball14.4%22679.02,90941.2%24.4%41.195.681
Sinker13.5%21294.52,16544.8%9.9%70.371.992
Mike Burrows'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.

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.