P · 2019

Iván Nova

Chicago White Sox American League CentralP

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 250 lb

Born: January 12, 1987 in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: May 13, 2010

Age shown as of the 2020 season.

dbWAR: 1.7
PA: 5
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -120

Iván Nova is a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 5 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 63.9 mph off the bat and made contact on 41.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -120 wRC+ puts his offence 220% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.4 runs with the bat, +0.0 on the bases, +0.0 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2019.

wRC+-120

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -1.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	3	5	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	80.0%	.000	-1.4	-120	-0.1
2018	27	56	1	30	.019	.019	.019	.000	.043	0.0%	53.6%	.017	-13.7	-113	-1.2
2017	28	60	1	31	.020	.020	.020	.000	.050	0.0%	51.7%	.017	-15.4	-112	-1.3
2016	13	28	3	18	.115	.115	.115	.000	.375	0.0%	64.3%	.101	-4.9	-49	-0.4

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2020	4	4	19.0	1	1	0	22	18	9	9	8.53	6.40	1.63	4.3	4.3	191	144	-0.2
2019	34	34	187.0	11	12	0	225	98	114	47	4.72	4.98	1.45	5.5	2.3	105	111	0.8
2018	29	29	161.0	9	9	0	171	75	114	35	4.19	4.57	1.28	6.4	2.0	101	110	0.9
2017	31	31	187.0	11	14	0	203	86	131	36	4.14	4.46	1.28	6.3	1.7	95	102	1.6
2016	32	26	162.0	12	8	1	175	75	127	28	4.17	4.11	1.25	7.1	1.6	99	98	1.6
2015	17	17	94.0	6	11	0	99	53	63	33	5.07	4.87	1.40	6.0	3.2	128	123	-0.0

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2019. 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 LHP	5	5	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	80.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2019. 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	407	379	111	17	23	57	.293	.335	.496	.349	14.0%
vs RHB	399	364	114	13	24	57	.313	.365	.470	.357	14.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 63.9
Max exit velo: 63.9
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 100.0%
Launch angle: 21.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity63.9 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate41.7%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2019.

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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 .252.

Situational hitting

How Iván Nova hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	5	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	5	5	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2019.

Pitch sequencing

What Iván Nova 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, and how often it misses in 2019.


Sinker	36.6%	1,101	92.3	2,162	45.1%	10.6%
Four-Seam Fastball	17.6%	528	92.5	2,246	43.0%	11.1%
Curveball	16.8%	504	79.9	2,257	38.7%	31.3%
Changeup	16.0%	481	86.2	1,999	41.0%	22.5%
Cutter	13.0%	391	86.7	2,142	41.7%	34.2%

Iván Nova'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.

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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.