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Daniel Palencia

Age: 26
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 160 lb
Number: #48

Born: February 5, 2000 in San Carlos, Venezuela
MLB debut: July 4, 2023

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dbWAR: 1.6
IP: 29.2
ERA: 3.64
FIP: 4.05
K/9: 9.1
FIP−: 97

Daniel Palencia is a relief pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2026 he struck out 30 batters over 29.2 innings across 32 appearances, going 2-2. His ERA of 3.64 was 12.9% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 6th of 16 on his team, and 188th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.05 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 27.0% of swings (13.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 24.4%. His 0.2 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.

FIP4.05

K/99.1

WHIP1.21

WAR.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	CHC	32	29.2	2	2	3	25	12	30	11	3.64	4.05	1.21	9.1	3.3	87	97	0.2
2025	CHC	54	52.2	1	6	22	44	17	61	16	2.91	3.08	1.14	10.4	2.7	70	74	1.0
2024	CHC	10	14.2	0	1	1	14	10	16	12	6.14	3.64	1.77	9.8	7.4	150	89	0.1
2023	CHC	27	28.1	5	3	0	22	14	33	14	4.45	4.00	1.27	10.5	4.4	103	92	0.3

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

Postseason Daniel Palencia's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	W	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2026 Post	CHC	Wild Card · through Sep 30	1	1.2	0	1	1	1	0	2	5.40	0.60	10.8
2025 Post	CHC	Postseason total	6	7.2	3	5	3	1	2	3	3.52	0.91	3.5
		Wild Card	2	3.0	2	2	0	0	1	2	0.00	1.00	6.0
		NLDS	4	4.2	1	3	3	1	1	1	5.79	0.86	1.9
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	7	9.1	3	6	4	2	2	5	3.86	0.86	4.8

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.

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	59	50	17	4	9	14	.340	.441	.640	.458	23.7%
vs RHB	64	60	8	0	2	16	.133	.172	.167	.157	25.0%

Pitch sequencing

What Daniel Palencia 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	66.5%	317	99.2	2,368	47.6%	22.7%	71	.197	.562
Slider	24.1%	115	90.2	2,308	48.7%	43.1%	25	.320	.993
Splitter	5.7%	27	89.4	1,176	40.7%	33.3%	5	—	—
Sinker	3.8%	18	98.8	2,280	16.7%	9.1%	9	—	—

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

Jacob WebbCHC

ERA: 3.36
FIP: 4.03
SO: 73
WAR: 0.5

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Greg WeissertBOS

ERA: 3.26
FIP: 3.98
SO: 60
WAR: 0.5

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Orlando RibaltaWSH

ERA: 3.77
FIP: 3.92
SO: 42
WAR: 0.4

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Brooks RaleyNYM

ERA: 3.25
FIP: 3.96
SO: 51
WAR: 0.4

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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.