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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

dbWAR: 3.6
IP: 148.2
ERA: 3.03
FIP: 3.04
K/9: 10.4
FIP−: 73

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 is 27.6% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 6th of 19 on his team, and 97th of 538 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.

FIP3.04

K/910.4

WHIP1.10

WAR3.8

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2026	BOS	26	26	148.2	9	6	0	123	50	171	40	3.03	3.04	1.10	10.4	2.4	72	73	3.8
2025	BOS	7	3	16.1	0	1	0	18	11	19	8	6.06	6.26	1.59	10.5	4.4	146	150	-0.3

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	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.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	44.6%	1,017	96.1	2,269	55.1%	30.5%	229	.188	.593
Sinker	24.1%	549	94.8	2,264	47.4%	17.1%	137	.314	.835
Cutter	19.2%	439	88.6	2,365	53.1%	28.3%	106	.226	.617
Curveball	9.3%	212	82.9	2,435	54.7%	43.4%	70	.157	.452
Changeup	2.8%	65	88.6	1,006	33.8%	17.9%	13	—	—

Payton Tolle'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.

Cade CavalliWSH

ERA: 3.02
FIP: 3.26
SO: 200
WAR: 4.1

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Reid DetmersLAA

ERA: 3.36
FIP: 3.02
SO: 211
WAR: 4.5

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Jesús LuzardoPHI

ERA: 2.97
FIP: 2.78
SO: 221
WAR: 5.3

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Parker MessickCLE

ERA: 2.55
FIP: 3.07
SO: 191
WAR: 4.7

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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.