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Dustin Nippert
- Age
- 29
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 8"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Number
- #57
- Born
- May 6, 1981 in Wheeling, WV, United States
- MLB debut
- September 8, 2005
- dbWAR
- .5 Regular season, 10 season(s)
- IP
- 56.2
- ERA
- 4.29
- FIP
- 5.09
- K/9
- 7.5
- FIP−
- 125 100 = avg
Dustin Nippert was a relief pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2010 he struck out 47 batters over 56.2 innings across 38 appearances, going 4-5. His ERA of 4.29 was 5.1% higher than the league average of 4.08 — 12th of 16 on his team, and 271st of 467 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.09 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 21.1% of swings (9.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 13.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.9%. His -0.3 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.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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| 2010 | TEX | 38 | 2 | 56.2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 61 | 27 | 47 | 34 | 4.29 | 5.09 | 1.68 | 7.5 | 5.4 | 105 | 125 | -0.3 | |
| 2009 | TEX | 20 | 10 | 69.2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 64 | 30 | 54 | 29 | 3.88 | 4.27 | 1.33 | 7.0 | 3.7 | 90 | 99 | 0.7 | |
| 2008 | TEX | 20 | 6 | 71.2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 92 | 51 | 55 | 37 | 6.40 | 5.00 | 1.80 | 6.9 | 4.6 | 148 | 116 | 0.1 | |
| 2007 | AZ | 36 | 0 | 45.1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 48 | 28 | 38 | 16 | 5.56 | 4.06 | 1.41 | 7.5 | 3.2 | 124 | 91 | 0.5 | |
| 2006 | AZ | 2 | 2 | 10.0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 11.70 | 9.95 | 2.20 | 8.1 | 6.3 | 258 | 220 | -0.5 | |
| 2005 | AZ | 3 | 3 | 14.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 5.52 | 5.27 | 1.57 | 6.8 | 8.0 | 129 | 123 | 0.0 |
Batting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 Post | TEX | ALDS | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18.00 | 2.00 | 0.0 |
| 2007 Post | AZ | NLCS | 2 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 0.43 | 7.7 |
| Career | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 3 | 0 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5.40 | 0.90 | 5.4 |
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 | 107 | 82 | 25 | 2 | 22 | 16 | .305 | .448 | .439 | .403 | 15.0% |
| vs RHB | 155 | 138 | 36 | 5 | 12 | 31 | .261 | .342 | .428 | .343 | 20.0% |
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.
Pitch sequencing
What Dustin Nippert 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 | 606 | 93.2 | 2,278 | 46.9% | 18.2% | 133 | .263 | .760 | |
| Changeup | 187 | 82.9 | 1,738 | 40.6% | 25.8% | 39 | .231 | .631 | |
| Curveball | 162 | 74.7 | 1,135 | 41.4% | 22.4% | 29 | .379 | 1.138 | |
| Sinker | 55 | 92.3 | 2,669 | 40.0% | 28.6% | 11 | — | — | |
| Cutter | 27 | 92.7 | 2,082 | 29.6% | 50.0% | 4 | — | — | |
| Intentional Ball | 12 | 73.6 | 1,712 | 0.0% | — | 0 | — | — |
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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.