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Brandon Young

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #63

Born: August 19, 1998 in Lumberton, TX, United States
MLB debut: April 19, 2025
College: Louisiana-Lafayette

dbWAR: 1.2
IP: 156.2
ERA: 3.56
FIP: 4.47
K/9: 7.6
FIP−: 107

Brandon Young is a starting pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2026 he struck out 133 batters over 156.2 innings across 28 appearances, 28 of them starts, going 9-6. His ERA of 3.56 is 14.8% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 6th of 17 on his team, and 174th of 538 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.47 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 24.3% of swings (11.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.9%. His 1.3 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.

FIP4.47

K/97.6

WHIP1.35

WAR1.3

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2026	BAL	28	28	156.2	9	6	0	150	62	133	61	3.56	4.47	1.35	7.6	3.5	85	107	1.3
2025	BAL	12	12	57.2	1	7	0	67	40	47	22	6.24	5.35	1.54	7.3	3.4	150	129	-0.1

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	404	349	78	13	49	73	.223	.318	.390	.317	18.1%
vs RHB	265	247	72	9	12	60	.291	.331	.437	.337	22.6%

Pitch sequencing

What Brandon Young 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	40.1%	1,014	94.4	2,239	51.7%	21.3%	220	.223	.707
Splitter	18.9%	478	84.5	1,433	35.4%	28.2%	117	.265	.689
Slider	15.5%	393	84.5	2,045	45.8%	41.6%	112	.196	.553
Sinker	13.8%	349	93.9	1,877	43.3%	9.0%	105	.333	.940
Curveball	11.7%	296	75.2	2,708	41.9%	24.7%	45	.289	.870

Brandon Young'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.

Grant HolmesATL

ERA: 3.44
FIP: 4.76
SO: 115
WAR: 0.9

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J.T. GinnATH

ERA: 3.71
FIP: 4.38
SO: 121
WAR: 1.7

Very close

Freddy PeraltaNYM

ERA: 4.42
FIP: 4.29
SO: 156
WAR: 1.8

Very close

Walker BuehlerSD

ERA: 4.56
FIP: 4.46
SO: 128
WAR: 1.2

Very close

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.