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Nick Martinez

Age: 36
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #28

Born: August 5, 1990 in Miami, FL, United States
MLB debut: April 5, 2014
Drafted: 2011, round 18
College: Fordham
High school: Belen Jesuit Prep
Salary, 2026: $9M

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dbWAR: 6.1
IP: 180.0
ERA: 3.10
FIP: 3.96
K/9: 5.5
FIP−: 95

Nick Martinez is a starting pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2026 he struck out 109 batters over 180.0 innings across 31 appearances, 31 of them starts, going 15-6. His ERA of 3.10 was 25.9% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 5th of 16 on his team, and 106th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.96 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 17.4% of swings (8.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 3.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.1%. His 2.7 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.

FIP3.96

K/95.5

WHIP1.09

WAR2.7

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2026	TB	31	31	180.0	15	6	0	171	62	109	26	3.10	3.96	1.09	5.5	1.3	74	95	2.7
2025	CIN	40	26	165.2	11	14	0	158	82	116	42	4.45	4.33	1.21	6.3	2.3	107	104	1.3
2024	CIN	42	16	142.1	10	7	0	128	49	116	18	3.10	3.21	1.03	7.3	1.1	76	79	2.8
2023	SD	63	9	110.1	6	4	1	99	42	106	40	3.43	3.92	1.26	8.6	3.3	79	90	1.2
2022	SD	47	10	106.1	4	4	8	96	41	95	41	3.47	4.43	1.29	8.0	3.5	87	112	0.0
2017	TEX	23	18	111.1	3	8	0	124	70	67	28	5.66	5.80	1.37	5.4	2.3	130	133	-0.5
2016	TEX	12	5	38.2	2	3	0	45	24	16	19	5.59	6.87	1.66	3.7	4.4	133	164	-0.8
2015	TEX	24	21	125.0	7	7	0	135	55	77	46	3.96	4.98	1.45	5.5	3.3	100	126	-0.0
2014	TEX	29	24	140.1	5	12	0	150	71	77	55	4.55	4.94	1.46	4.9	3.5	122	132	-0.6

Batting Regular season

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


2017	TEX	1	2	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.000	—	50.0%	50.0%	.355	+0.1	114	0.0
2016	TEX	1	2	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-112	-0.0
2015	TEX	2	4	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	25.0%	.000	-1.0	-118	-0.1
2014	TEX	3	3	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	66.7%	.000	-0.7	-120	-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

Postseason Nick Martinez'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	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2026 Post	TB	Postseason total · through Oct 27	4	3	16.0	1	1	13	5	0	3	12	2.81	1.00	6.8
		ALDS	1	1	3.2	0	0	5	2	0	1	3	4.91	1.64	7.4
		ALCS	1	1	5.1	1	0	2	1	0	2	3	1.69	0.75	5.1
		World Series	2	1	7.0	0	1	6	2	0	0	6	2.57	0.86	7.7
2025 Post	CIN	Wild Card	1	0	0.1	0	0	4	3	0	1	0	81.00	15.00	0.0
2022 Post	SD	Postseason total	7	0	11.0	0	1	3	1	1	1	11	0.82	0.36	9.0
		Wild Card	1	0	2.2	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	3.38	0.75	0.0
		NLDS	3	0	2.1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	0.00	0.43	11.6
		NLCS	3	0	6.0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	0.00	0.17	12.0
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	12	3	27.1	1	2	20	9	1	5	23	2.96	0.91	7.6

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, 2026. 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	419	399	94	13	17	66	.236	.266	.393	.287	15.8%
vs RHB	303	288	77	9	9	43	.267	.295	.410	.307	14.2%

Pitch sequencing

What Nick Martinez 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	31.7%	801	92.4	2,300	50.7%	9.3%	231	.277	.726
Changeup	25.8%	651	78.3	1,865	40.1%	30.7%	179	.184	.528
Cutter	21.9%	553	89.2	2,323	44.8%	13.1%	162	.241	.643
Four-Seam Fastball	12.7%	320	92.7	2,266	45.0%	16.4%	84	.250	.796
Curveball	4.1%	103	80.0	2,512	39.8%	16.7%	11	—	—
Slider	3.8%	96	85.2	2,398	38.5%	24.4%	20	.500	1.150

Nick Martinez'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 2026 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Keider MonteroDET

ERA: 3.48
FIP: 3.98
SO: 107
WAR: 2.0

Jake BennettBOS

ERA: 3.65
FIP: 3.51
SO: 91
WAR: 2.3

Zac ThorntonNYM

ERA: 3.42
FIP: 4.51
SO: 63
WAR: 0.7

Brandon PfaadtAZ

ERA: 3.77
FIP: 3.90
SO: 94
WAR: 1.8

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.