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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: 25.7
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 regular season.

FIP5.10

K/97.1

WHIP1.45

WAR.6

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


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
2014	MIN	27	27	159.0	6	12	203	95	115	38	5.38	4.30	1.52	6.5	2.2	144	115	0.9
2013	MIA/LAD	34	33	199.1	13	11	195	82	165	46	3.70	3.34	1.21	7.4	2.1	96	87	3.6
2012	MIA	31	31	191.0	12	13	214	95	125	47	4.48	3.87	1.37	5.9	2.2	112	97	2.5
2011	FLA	33	33	206.0	10	12	244	107	148	44	4.67	3.54	1.40	6.5	1.9	119	90	3.3
2010	FLA	26	26	157.2	14	9	169	79	147	33	4.51	3.86	1.28	8.4	1.9	111	95	2.3
2009	FLA	31	31	185.0	13	9	188	104	195	44	5.06	3.35	1.25	9.5	2.1	117	78	4.4
2008	FLA	34	32	212.1	15	8	192	83	186	42	3.52	3.77	1.10	7.9	1.8	81	87	3.7
2007	FLA	5	4	21.1	1	2	26	13	11	9	5.48	5.44	1.64	4.6	3.8	123	122	0.0
2006	FLA	35	22	140.0	11	11	157	75	99	41	4.82	4.68	1.41	6.4	2.6	107	103	1.0

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2017	LAA	3	7	0	0	0	2	2	.000	.286	.000	.000	.000	28.6%	28.6%	.203	-0.7	17	0.0
2016	LAA/MIN	2	5	0	0	0	2	1	.000	.400	.000	.000	.000	40.0%	20.0%	.279	-0.2	70	0.1
2015	MIN	1	3	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.8	-123	-0.0
2014	MIN	1	2	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-118	-0.0
2013	MIA/LAD	29	64	6	0	1	6	24	.120	.214	.160	.040	.231	9.4%	37.5%	.186	-6.5	8	0.2
2012	MIA	30	70	9	0	8	4	27	.161	.217	.214	.054	.310	5.7%	38.6%	.199	-6.6	18	0.3
2011	FLA	30	71	5	0	1	3	22	.089	.150	.125	.036	.147	4.2%	31.0%	.135	-10.2	-28	-0.2
2010	FLA	23	55	8	0	3	2	16	.170	.204	.234	.064	.258	3.6%	29.1%	.200	-5.5	13	0.1
2009	FLA	28	62	7	0	3	2	25	.140	.173	.140	.000	.280	3.2%	40.3%	.149	-9.3	-24	-0.1
2008	FLA	31	75	9	0	5	2	35	.143	.169	.175	.032	.321	2.7%	46.7%	.159	-10.7	-19	-0.1
2007	FLA	4	7	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	42.9%	.000	-2.0	-125	-0.1
2006	FLA	22	49	7	1	5	2	19	.171	.209	.244	.073	.286	4.1%	38.8%	.206	-5.4	13	0.2

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

Postseason Ricky Nolasco's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2013 Post	LAD	NLCS	1	1	4.0	0	1	0	3	3	1	1	4	6.75	1.00	9.0

Postseason batting

Postseason Ricky Nolasco's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2013 Post	LAD	NLCS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

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.

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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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.