Players · N · Pitcher · 2026 regular season
Aaron Nola
- Age
- 33
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Number
- #27
- Born
- June 4, 1993 in Baton Rouge, LA, United States
- MLB debut
- July 21, 2015
- Drafted
- 2011, round 22
- College
- Louisiana State
- High school
- Catholic
- Salary, 2026
- $24.6M
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- dbWAR
- 35.9 Regular season, 18 season(s)
- IP
- 175.1
- ERA
- 4.67
- FIP
- 4.87
- K/9
- 9.1
- FIP−
- 117 100 = avg
Aaron Nola is a starting pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2026 he struck out 177 batters over 175.1 innings across 33 appearances, 33 of them starts, going 7-12. His ERA of 4.67 was 11.7% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 9th of 17 on his team, and 365th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.87 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 27.1% of swings (12.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 23.8%. His 0.9 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, 2026 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | PHI | 33 | 33 | 175.1 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 177 | 91 | 177 | 59 | 4.67 | 4.87 | 1.35 | 9.1 | 3.0 | 112 | 117 | 0.9 | |
| 2025 | PHI | 17 | 17 | 94.1 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 99 | 63 | 97 | 28 | 6.01 | 4.58 | 1.35 | 9.3 | 2.7 | 145 | 110 | 0.8 | |
| 2024 | PHI | 33 | 33 | 199.1 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 189 | 79 | 197 | 50 | 3.57 | 3.94 | 1.20 | 8.9 | 2.3 | 87 | 97 | 2.7 | |
| 2023 | PHI | 32 | 32 | 193.2 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 178 | 96 | 202 | 45 | 4.46 | 4.03 | 1.15 | 9.4 | 2.1 | 103 | 93 | 3.0 | |
| 2022 | PHI | 32 | 32 | 205.0 | 11 | 13 | 0 | 168 | 74 | 235 | 29 | 3.25 | 2.58 | 0.96 | 10.3 | 1.3 | 82 | 65 | 6.0 | |
| 2021 | PHI | 32 | 32 | 180.2 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 165 | 93 | 223 | 39 | 4.63 | 3.37 | 1.13 | 11.1 | 1.9 | 109 | 79 | 4.1 | |
| 2020 | PHI | 12 | 12 | 71.1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 54 | 26 | 96 | 23 | 3.28 | 3.19 | 1.08 | 12.1 | 2.9 | 74 | 72 | 1.9 | |
| 2019 | PHI | 34 | 34 | 202.1 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 176 | 87 | 229 | 80 | 3.87 | 4.03 | 1.27 | 10.2 | 3.6 | 86 | 90 | 3.6 | |
| 2018 | PHI | 33 | 33 | 212.1 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 149 | 56 | 224 | 58 | 2.37 | 3.01 | 0.97 | 9.5 | 2.5 | 57 | 73 | 5.4 | |
| 2017 | PHI | 27 | 27 | 168.0 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 154 | 66 | 184 | 49 | 3.54 | 3.27 | 1.21 | 9.9 | 2.6 | 81 | 75 | 4.2 | |
| 2016 | PHI | 20 | 20 | 111.0 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 116 | 59 | 121 | 29 | 4.78 | 3.08 | 1.31 | 9.8 | 2.4 | 114 | 74 | 2.6 | |
| 2015 | PHI | 13 | 13 | 77.2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 74 | 31 | 68 | 19 | 3.59 | 4.03 | 1.20 | 7.9 | 2.2 | 91 | 102 | 0.9 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | PHI | 31 | 63 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 29 | .143 | .232 | .184 | .041 | .333 | 9.5% | 46.0% | .201 | -6.2 | 19 | 0.4 | |
| 2019 | PHI | 32 | 70 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 35 | .119 | .200 | .153 | .034 | .292 | 8.6% | 50.0% | .170 | -9.1 | -4 | 0.1 | |
| 2018 | PHI | 32 | 70 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 36 | .048 | .063 | .065 | .016 | .115 | 1.4% | 51.4% | .059 | -14.7 | -78 | -0.5 | |
| 2017 | PHI | 25 | 54 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 25 | .083 | .154 | .083 | .000 | .174 | 7.4% | 46.3% | .122 | -9.1 | -38 | -0.0 | |
| 2016 | PHI | 18 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17 | .033 | .147 | .067 | .033 | .077 | 8.6% | 48.6% | .120 | -5.6 | -38 | -0.1 | |
| 2015 | PHI | 13 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16 | .087 | .125 | .087 | .000 | .286 | 3.8% | 61.5% | .103 | -4.4 | -50 | -0.1 |
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Post | PHI | Wild Card · through Oct 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 16.20 | 2.40 | 5.4 |
| 2025 Post | PHI | NLDS | 1 | 1 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | 0.50 | 13.5 |
| 2024 Post | PHI | NLDS | 1 | 1 | 5.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7.20 | 1.40 | 14.4 |
| 2023 Post | PHI | Postseason total | 4 | 4 | 23.0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 2.35 | 0.96 | 9.0 |
| Wild Card | 1 | 1 | 7.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.00 | 0.57 | 3.9 | ||
| NLDS | 1 | 1 | 5.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3.18 | 1.24 | 14.3 | ||
| NLCS | 2 | 2 | 10.1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 3.48 | 1.06 | 9.6 | ||
| 2022 Post | PHI | Postseason total | 5 | 5 | 25.2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 29 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 27 | 4.91 | 1.32 | 9.5 |
| Wild Card | 1 | 1 | 6.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0.00 | 0.75 | 8.1 | ||
| NLDS | 1 | 1 | 6.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0.00 | 1.17 | 9.0 | ||
| NLCS | 1 | 1 | 4.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 11.57 | 1.50 | 11.6 | ||
| World Series | 2 | 2 | 8.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8.64 | 1.80 | 9.7 | ||
| Career | Postseason total · 5 Octobers | 12 | 12 | 57.1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 55 | 27 | 9 | 13 | 62 | 4.24 | 1.19 | 9.7 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 458 | 403 | 101 | 22 | 50 | 101 | .251 | .332 | .464 | .346 | 22.1% |
| vs RHB | 286 | 273 | 76 | 15 | 9 | 76 | .278 | .303 | .509 | .347 | 26.6% |
Pitch sequencing
What Aaron Nola 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.
| Knuckle Curve | 980 | 78.4 | 2,628 | 53.0% | 41.1% | 250 | .176 | .561 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 706 | 92.3 | 2,354 | 48.2% | 14.1% | 134 | .328 | 1.051 | |
| Sinker | 535 | 91.6 | 2,270 | 42.1% | 12.2% | 138 | .333 | 1.053 | |
| Changeup | 481 | 85.6 | 1,558 | 35.8% | 25.6% | 100 | .200 | .532 | |
| Cutter | 223 | 86.2 | 2,299 | 45.7% | 25.6% | 49 | .429 | 1.104 | |
| Slider | 21 | 83.2 | 2,312 | 52.4% | 26.7% | 7 | — | — |
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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.