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Carson Whisenhunt

San Francisco Giants National League West

Age: 26
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #88

Born: October 20, 2000 in Winston-Salem, NC, United States
MLB debut: July 28, 2025
Drafted: 2022, round 2
College: East Carolina
High school: Davie County

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dbWAR: -.5
IP: 34.2
ERA: 6.49
FIP: 5.38
K/9: 6.8
FIP−: 129

Carson Whisenhunt is a starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. In 2026 he struck out 26 batters over 34.2 innings across 8 appearances, 8 of them starts, going 3-4. His ERA of 6.49 was 55.2% higher than the league average of 4.18 — the second worst on his team, and 509th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.38 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 28.2% of swings (12.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 12.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.9%. His -0.1 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.

FIP5.38

K/96.8

WHIP1.79

WAR-.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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

																				Trend
2026	SF	8	8	34.2	3	4	0	41	25	26	21	6.49	5.38	1.79	6.8	5.5	155	129	-0.1
2025	SF	5	5	23.1	2	1	0	22	13	16	12	5.01	6.91	1.46	6.2	4.6	121	166	-0.5

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	36	25	4	0	10	4	.160	.389	.160	.300	11.1%
vs RHB	128	115	37	5	11	22	.322	.383	.530	.396	17.2%

Pitch sequencing

What Carson Whisenhunt 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


Changeup	35.1%	216	83.4	1,908	44.4%	39.2%	61	.213	.666
Four-Seam Fastball	34.9%	215	92.8	2,252	37.7%	12.7%	39	.436	1.197
Slider	16.4%	101	85.1	2,466	49.5%	28.0%	21	.238	.714
Sinker	9.1%	56	92.9	2,198	48.2%	16.7%	13	—	—
Slurve	2.6%	16	81.0	2,780	37.5%	0.0%	1	—	—
Curveball	1.9%	12	80.4	2,742	25.0%	42.9%	5	—	—

Carson Whisenhunt'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.

Jack KochanowiczLAA

ERA: 6.19
FIP: 4.98
SO: 47
WAR: 0.1

Trey GibsonBAL

ERA: 6.13
FIP: 5.65
SO: 37
WAR: -0.2

Simeon Woods RichardsonMIN

ERA: 6.68
FIP: 5.83
SO: 40
WAR: -0.7

Grayson RodriguezLAA

ERA: 6.02
FIP: 5.01
SO: 85
WAR: 0.2

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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.