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Fernando Nieve

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #64

Born: July 15, 1982 in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
MLB debut: April 4, 2006

dbWAR: -.6
IP: 42.0
ERA: 6.00
FIP: 6.08
K/9: 8.1
FIP−: 149

Fernando Nieve was a relief pitcher for the New York Mets. In 2010 he struck out 38 batters over 42.0 innings across 40 appearances, going 2-4. His ERA of 6.00 was 47.1% higher than the league average of 4.08 — 15th of 18 on his team, and 429th of 467 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.08 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 21.5% of swings (9.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 20.5%. His -0.8 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, 2010 regular season.

FIP6.08

K/98.1

WHIP1.40

WAR-.8

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.


2010	NYM	40	1	42.0	2	4	37	28	38	22	6.00	6.08	1.40	8.1	4.7	147	149	-0.8
2009	NYM	8	7	36.2	3	3	36	12	23	19	2.95	4.90	1.50	5.6	4.7	68	113	0.1
2008	HOU	11	0	10.2	0	1	17	10	12	2	8.44	3.88	1.78	10.1	1.7	195	90	0.1
2006	HOU	40	11	96.1	3	3	87	45	70	41	4.20	5.46	1.33	6.5	3.8	93	121	-0.2

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.


2010	NYM	2	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-129	-0.0
2009	NYM	6	9	3	1	0	3	.333	.333	.333	.000	.500	0.0%	33.3%	.300	-0.2	79	0.1
2008	HOU	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-126	-0.0
2006	HOU	12	23	2	1	2	8	.125	.222	.125	.000	.250	8.7%	34.8%	.181	-3.0	-4	0.0

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2010. 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	57	50	12	6	5	10	.240	.316	.700	.422	17.5%
vs RHB	128	108	25	4	17	28	.231	.341	.389	.332	21.9%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2010.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2010.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .257.

Pitch sequencing

What Fernando Nieve 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	56.9%	430	93.0	2,233	49.3%	21.3%	92	.217	.822
Slider	17.2%	130	82.5	970	41.5%	25.9%	31	.290	.817
Sinker	9.8%	74	93.3	2,715	43.2%	21.4%	14	—	—
Changeup	9.5%	72	83.5	1,830	37.5%	19.4%	17	.176	.721
Curveball	4.9%	37	77.6	1,617	32.4%	14.3%	4	—	—

Fernando Nieve'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 2010 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Juan GutierrezAZ

ERA: 5.08
FIP: 5.83
SO: 47
WAR: -0.8

Chad GaudinNYY

ERA: 5.65
FIP: 6.16
SO: 53
WAR: -1.1

Brian TalletTOR

ERA: 6.40
FIP: 6.70
SO: 53
WAR: -1.8

Alfredo SimonBAL

ERA: 4.93
FIP: 5.67
SO: 37
WAR: -0.6

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.