P · 2021

Jimmy Nelson

Los Angeles Dodgers National League WestP

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 250 lb
Number: #52

Born: June 5, 1989 in Klamath Falls, OR, USA
MLB debut: September 6, 2013

dbWAR: 3.7
PA: 3
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -122

Jimmy Nelson is a pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 3 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He made contact on 33.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -122 wRC+ puts his offence 222% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -0.8 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, 2021.

wRC+-122

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	3	3	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.8	-122	-0.1
2019	2	3	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.8	-120	-0.1
2017	27	60	6	2	1	35	.105	.121	.105	.000	.273	1.7%	58.3%	.103	-11.1	-51	-0.9
2016	30	59	4	3	2	32	.080	.115	.080	.000	.222	3.4%	54.2%	.094	-10.7	-54	-0.9
2015	26	59	6	2	1	34	.109	.125	.127	.018	.286	1.7%	57.6%	.114	-9.5	-41	-0.8

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	28	1	29.0	1	2	14	6	44	13	1.86	1.89	0.93	13.7	4.0	44	44	0.9
2019	10	3	22.0	0	2	25	17	26	17	6.95	5.80	1.91	10.6	7.0	154	129	-0.2
2017	29	29	175.1	12	6	171	68	199	48	3.49	3.05	1.25	10.2	2.5	80	70	4.2
2016	32	32	179.1	8	16	186	92	140	86	4.62	5.12	1.52	7.0	4.3	110	122	-0.1
2015	30	30	177.1	11	13	163	81	148	65	4.11	4.10	1.29	7.5	3.3	104	104	1.6

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2021. 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	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	100.0%
vs RHP	2	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	100.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2021. 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	56	46	8	0	8	18	.174	.309	.196	.253	32.1%
vs RHB	60	52	6	0	5	26	.115	.233	.173	.204	43.3%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2021.

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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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Jimmy Nelson 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	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	3	3	0	0	0	0	3	.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, 2021.

Pitch sequencing

What Jimmy Nelson 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 2021.


Knuckle Curve	33.5%	175	85.0	2,930	47.4%	47.0%
Four-Seam Fastball	31.7%	166	93.8	2,613	46.4%	23.0%
Slider	31.7%	166	86.4	2,971	54.2%	41.7%
Unknown	3.1%	16	—	—	56.3%	28.6%

Jimmy Nelson'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.