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Ricky Nolasco

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 235 lb
Number: #47

Born: December 13, 1982 in Corona, CA, United States
MLB debut: April 5, 2006

dbWAR: 3.7
IP: 181.0
ERA: 4.92
FIP: 5.10
K/9: 7.1
FIP−: 117

Ricky Nolasco was a starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2017 he struck out 143 batters over 181.0 innings across 33 appearances, 33 of them starts, going 6-15. His ERA of 4.92 was 13.0% higher than the league average of 4.36 — 17th of 20 on his team, and 366th of 527 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.10 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 25.4% of swings (11.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.2%. His 0.6 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, 2017.

FIP5.10

K/97.1

WHIP1.45

WAR.6

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	LAA	33	33	181.0	6	15	205	99	143	58	4.92	5.10	1.45	7.1	2.9	113	117	0.6
2016	MIN/LAA	32	32	197.2	8	14	202	97	144	44	4.42	4.14	1.24	6.6	2.0	105	99	2.5
2015	MIN	9	8	37.1	5	2	50	28	35	14	6.75	3.51	1.71	8.4	3.4	170	89	0.6

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	LAA	3	7	2	2	.000	.286	.000	.000	.000	28.6%	28.6%	.203	-0.7	17	0.0
2016	LAA/MIN	2	5	2	1	.000	.400	.000	.000	.000	40.0%	20.0%	.279	-0.2	70	0.1
2015	MIN	1	3	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.8	-123	-0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2017. 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	392	354	97	13	32	56	.274	.338	.452	.340	14.3%
vs RHB	395	362	108	22	26	87	.298	.344	.564	.383	22.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2017.

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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 .254.

Pitch sequencing

What Ricky Nolasco 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


Sinker	29.1%	897	90.8	2,008	40.4%	12.8%	245	.343	1.005
Slider	27.3%	843	81.0	2,318	45.0%	33.8%	194	.284	.838
Four-Seam Fastball	19.2%	594	91.0	2,124	43.4%	14.9%	128	.273	.893
Splitter	15.0%	462	80.9	1,379	43.5%	42.2%	98	.204	.536
Knuckle Curve	9.3%	287	73.6	2,544	38.7%	33.0%	52	.212	.568

Ricky Nolasco'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 2017 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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ERA: 4.77
FIP: 5.04
SO: 93
WAR: 0.5

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ERA: 4.33
FIP: 4.90
SO: 21
WAR: 0.2

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Matt AndrieseTB

ERA: 4.50
FIP: 4.93
SO: 76
WAR: 0.4

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Joe RossWSH

ERA: 5.01
FIP: 4.99
SO: 68
WAR: 0.4

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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.