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Parker Messick

Cleveland Guardians American League Central

Age: 26
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #77

Born: October 26, 2000 in Plant City, FL, United States
MLB debut: August 20, 2025
Drafted: 2022, round 2
College: Florida State

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dbWAR: 5.8
IP: 186.1
ERA: 2.56
FIP: 3.07
K/9: 9.3
FIP−: 73

Parker Messick is a starting pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians. In 2026 he struck out 193 batters over 186.1 innings across 32 appearances, 32 of them starts, going 12-9. His ERA of 2.56 was 38.8% lower than the league average of 4.18 — the second best on his team, and 50th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.07 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 25.5% of swings (12.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 25.8%. His 4.7 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.

FIP3.07

K/99.3

WHIP1.06

WAR4.7

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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

																				Trend
2026	CLE	32	32	186.1	12	9	0	149	53	193	49	2.56	3.07	1.06	9.3	2.4	61	73	4.7
2025	CLE	7	7	39.2	3	1	0	46	12	38	6	2.72	2.98	1.31	8.6	1.4	65	72	1.0

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 Parker Messick's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2026 Post	CLE	Postseason total · through Oct 18	4	4	13.2	3	17	6	1	10	17	3.95	1.98	11.2
		ALDS	2	2	6.2	1	6	4	1	6	11	5.40	1.80	14.8
		ALCS	2	2	7.0	2	11	2	0	4	6	2.57	2.14	7.7

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	205	188	46	5	13	49	.245	.300	.388	.306	23.9%
vs RHB	542	500	103	12	36	144	.206	.261	.338	.265	26.6%

Pitch sequencing

What Parker Messick 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	41.8%	1,231	94.4	2,181	53.8%	25.1%	285	.186	.550
Changeup	23.6%	696	85.9	1,860	41.2%	35.6%	195	.210	.542
Sinker	15.0%	442	92.8	2,067	45.7%	10.7%	115	.226	.592
Curveball	8.4%	247	79.3	2,288	42.5%	11.9%	34	.324	1.096
Slider	6.4%	188	86.9	2,380	39.4%	27.2%	39	.308	.973
Cutter	4.9%	144	90.5	2,161	41.7%	33.3%	21	.286	1.062

Parker Messick'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.

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ERA: 3.03
FIP: 3.04
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FIP: 3.02
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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.