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Bubba Chandler

Pittsburgh Pirates National League Central

Age: 24
B/T: S/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 206 lb
Number: #36

Born: September 14, 2002 in Lawrenceville, GA, United States
MLB debut: August 22, 2025
Drafted: 2021, round 3
High school: North Oconee

dbWAR: 2.7
IP: 154.0
ERA: 4.62
FIP: 4.25
K/9: 8.2
FIP−: 102

Bubba Chandler is a starting pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2026 he struck out 140 batters over 154.0 innings across 31 appearances, 30 of them starts, going 8-10. His ERA of 4.62 is 10.5% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 10th of 15 on his team, and 361st of 538 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.25 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 22.2% of swings (10.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 20.8%. 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.

FIP4.25

K/98.2

WHIP1.40

WAR1.9

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2026	PIT	31	30	154.0	8	10	0	136	79	140	80	4.62	4.25	1.40	8.2	4.7	111	102	1.9
2025	PIT	7	4	31.1	4	1	1	25	14	31	4	4.02	2.66	0.93	8.9	1.1	97	64	0.8

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	378	323	76	12	48	79	.235	.337	.424	.337	20.9%
vs RHB	296	258	60	3	32	61	.233	.325	.310	.296	20.6%

Pitch sequencing

What Bubba Chandler 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	48.4%	1,301	98.3	2,396	47.8%	22.2%	266	.233	.738
Slider	20.7%	556	91.2	2,390	47.3%	23.9%	142	.254	.722
Changeup	14.3%	383	91.4	1,955	38.6%	25.0%	95	.200	.546
Sinker	8.1%	218	97.7	2,269	50.9%	14.4%	40	.275	.825
Curveball	4.5%	122	86.6	2,376	40.2%	14.3%	23	.217	.756
Sweeper	3.9%	106	87.7	2,498	40.6%	25.6%	15	.200	.502

Bubba Chandler'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.

Kyle BradishBAL

ERA: 4.12
FIP: 4.36
SO: 142
WAR: 1.5

Very close

Yusei KikuchiLAA

ERA: 4.88
FIP: 4.12
SO: 60
WAR: 0.7

Very close

Landen RouppSF

ERA: 4.01
FIP: 3.73
SO: 143
WAR: 2.6

Very close

David PetersonNYM

ERA: 4.79
FIP: 3.97
SO: 137
WAR: 1.9

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.