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Vidal Nuño

Age: 31
B/T: L/L
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #54

Born: July 26, 1987 in National City, CA, United States
MLB debut: April 29, 2013

dbWAR: -.4
IP: 33.0
ERA: 1.64
FIP: 4.46
K/9: 7.9
FIP−: 108

Vidal Nuño was a relief pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2018 he struck out 29 batters over 33.0 innings across 17 appearances, going 3-0. His ERA of 1.64 was 60.6% lower than the league average of 4.15 — the best on his team, and 8th of 530 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.46 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 23.8% of swings (12.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.6%. His 0.1 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, 2018.

FIP4.46

K/97.9

WHIP1.03

WAR.1

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	TB	17	0	33.0	3	0	24	6	29	10	1.64	4.46	1.03	7.9	2.7	39	108	0.1
2017	BAL	12	0	14.2	0	1	23	17	13	10	10.43	9.63	2.25	8.0	6.1	239	221	-0.8
2016	SEA	55	1	58.2	1	1	67	23	51	11	3.53	4.51	1.33	7.8	1.7	84	108	0.1
2015	SEA/AZ	35	10	89.0	1	5	90	37	81	22	3.74	4.41	1.26	8.2	2.2	94	111	0.1

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	TB	1	2	2	1	1.000	1.000	1.000	.000	1.000	0.0%	0.0%	.879	+0.9	499	0.1
2017	BAL	1	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-121	-0.0
2015	AZ/SEA	3	7	1	1	.143	.143	.143	.000	.143	0.0%	0.0%	.126	-1.1	-34	-0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2018. 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	35	31	7	2	3	5	.226	.286	.484	.325	14.3%
vs RHB	99	90	17	3	7	24	.189	.263	.311	.245	24.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2018.

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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 .247.

Pitch sequencing

What Vidal Nuño 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


Slider	67.0%	335	84.9	2,495	53.7%	21.8%	84	.155	.426
Four-Seam Fastball	17.4%	87	89.0	2,336	41.4%	28.6%	12	—	—
Changeup	9.2%	46	81.7	1,607	32.6%	27.3%	13	—	—
Curveball	6.4%	32	80.0	2,584	37.5%	33.3%	12	—	—

Vidal Nuño'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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Similar players

Nearest 2018 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Corbin BurnesMIL

ERA: 2.61
FIP: 3.79
SO: 35
WAR: 0.4

Victor AlcántaraDET

ERA: 2.40
FIP: 4.53
SO: 21
WAR: 0.0

Raisel IglesiasCIN

ERA: 2.38
FIP: 4.23
SO: 80
WAR: 0.4

Kelvin HerreraKC

ERA: 2.44
FIP: 3.95
SO: 38
WAR: 0.4

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.