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Payton Tolle
- Age
- 24
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 6"
- Weight
- 250 lb
- Number
- #70
- Born
- November 1, 2002 in Stillwater, OK, United States
- MLB debut
- August 29, 2025
- Drafted
- 2024, round 2
- College
- Texas Christian
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- dbWAR
- 3.6 Regular season, 2 season(s)
- IP
- 148.2
- ERA
- 3.03
- FIP
- 3.04
- K/9
- 10.4
- FIP−
- 73 100 = avg
Payton Tolle is a starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2026 he struck out 171 batters over 148.2 innings across 26 appearances, 26 of them starts, going 9-6. His ERA of 3.03 was 27.6% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 6th of 19 on his team, and 97th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.04 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 27.9% of swings (15.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 28.4%. His 3.8 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 | BOS | Wild Card · through Sep 29 | 1 | 1 | 4.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1.93 | 1.29 | 7.7 |
| 2025 Post | BOS | Wild Card | 1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.0 |
| Career | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 2 | 1 | 5.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1.80 | 1.20 | 7.2 |
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 | 173 | 161 | 40 | 6 | 9 | 39 | .248 | .301 | .404 | .309 | 22.5% |
| vs RHB | 430 | 393 | 83 | 9 | 31 | 132 | .211 | .273 | .351 | .278 | 30.7% |
Pitch sequencing
What Payton Tolle 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 | 1,017 | 96.1 | 2,269 | 55.1% | 30.5% | 229 | .188 | .593 | |
| Sinker | 549 | 94.8 | 2,264 | 47.4% | 17.1% | 137 | .314 | .835 | |
| Cutter | 439 | 88.6 | 2,365 | 53.1% | 28.3% | 106 | .226 | .617 | |
| Curveball | 212 | 82.9 | 2,435 | 54.7% | 43.4% | 70 | .157 | .452 | |
| Changeup | 65 | 88.6 | 1,006 | 33.8% | 17.9% | 13 | — | — |
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- Ranger Suarez2026 Boston Red Sox
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- Max Fried2026 Wild Card Series
- Tarik Skubal2026 AL Cy Young race
- Sonny Gray2026 Boston Red Sox
- Jesús Luzardosimilar 2026 seasons
- Will Warren2026 Wild Card Series
- Drew Rasmussen2026 AL Cy Young race
- Cade Cavallisimilar 2026 seasons
- Parker Messick2026 AL Cy Young race
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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.