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Grant Taylor
- Age
- 24
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 230 lb
- Number
- #31
- Born
- May 20, 2002 in Florence, AL, United States
- MLB debut
- June 10, 2025
- Drafted
- 2023, round 2
- College
- Louisiana State
- High school
- Florence
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- dbWAR
- 3.3 Regular season, 2 season(s)
- IP
- 84.0
- ERA
- 2.25
- FIP
- 2.77
- K/9
- 11.4
- FIP−
- 66 100 = avg
Grant Taylor is a relief pitcher for the Chicago White Sox. In 2026 he struck out 106 batters over 84.0 innings across 60 appearances, going 7-3. His ERA of 2.25 was 46.2% lower than the league average of 4.18 — the second best on his team, and 34th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 2.77 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 29.4% of swings (13.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 31.5%. His 1.9 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.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
Separate from the regular season
Postseason Postseason
Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.
Postseason pitching
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Post | CWS | Postseason total · through Oct 10 | 5 | 0 | 8.2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 4.15 | 1.62 | 11.4 |
| Wild Card | 1 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.00 | 1.29 | 19.3 | ||
| ALDS | 4 | 0 | 6.1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 5.68 | 1.74 | 8.5 |
Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.
Platoon splits
How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 176 | 159 | 33 | 5 | 16 | 58 | .208 | .278 | .340 | .278 | 33.0% |
| vs RHB | 160 | 144 | 27 | 2 | 14 | 48 | .188 | .263 | .264 | .244 | 30.0% |
Pitch sequencing
What Grant Taylor 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 Fastball | 583 | 98.1 | 2,338 | 53.5% | 28.0% | 139 | .230 | .706 | |
| Curveball | 361 | 83.8 | 2,517 | 51.2% | 33.3% | 74 | .162 | .441 | |
| Slider | 221 | 89.5 | 2,618 | 48.0% | 36.4% | 56 | .179 | .457 | |
| Sinker | 164 | 98.9 | 2,304 | 51.2% | 19.0% | 33 | .152 | .464 |
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- Parker Messick2026 ALDS
- Sean Burke2026 Chicago White Sox
- Aroldis Chapmansimilar 2026 seasons
- Gavin Williams2026 ALDS
- Davis Martin2026 Chicago White Sox
- Brent Headricksimilar 2026 seasons
- Joey Cantillo2026 ALDS
- Adrian Houser2025 Chicago White Sox
- Didier Fuentessimilar 2026 seasons
- Cade Smith2026 ALDS
- Shane Smith2025 Chicago White Sox
- Tayler Saucedosimilar 2026 seasons
Similar players
Nearest 2026 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.