Pitcher · 2025
Nestor Cortes
- Age
- 31
- B/T
- R/L
- Height
- 5' 10"
- Weight
- 225 lb
- Number
- #65
- Born
- December 10, 1994 in Surgidero de Batabano, Cuba
- MLB debut
- March 31, 2018
- Drafted
- 2013, round 36
- High school
- Hialeah
- Salary, 2025
- $7.6M
- dbWAR
- 1.0 2 season(s)
- IP
- 34.1
- ERA
- 6.29
- FIP
- 8.29
- K/9
- 7.6
- FIP−
- 199 100 = avg
Nestor Cortes is a starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2025 he struck out 29 batters over 34.1 innings across 8 appearances, 8 of them starts, going 2-4. His ERA of 6.29 was 51.3% higher than the league average of 4.16 — the worst on his team, and 491st of 542 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 8.29 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 25.0% of swings (10.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 12.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.5%. His -1.2 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, 2025.
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 | 39 | 35 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 8 | .400 | .436 | .914 | .546 | 20.5% |
| vs RHB | 118 | 99 | 22 | 7 | 17 | 21 | .222 | .347 | .475 | .360 | 17.8% |
Pitch sequencing
What Nestor Cortes 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 2025.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 228 | 90.1 | 2,248 | 45.6% | 19.4% | |
| Cutter | 207 | 86.7 | 2,326 | 44.4% | 21.6% | |
| Changeup | 83 | 82.2 | 1,337 | 30.1% | 48.6% | |
| Sweeper | 80 | 78.1 | 2,522 | 48.8% | 25.7% |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | 8 | 34.1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 36 | 24 | 29 | 20 | 6.29 | 8.29 | 1.63 | 7.6 | 5.2 | 151 | 199 | -1.2 | |
| 2024 | 31 | 30 | 174.1 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 162 | 73 | 162 | 39 | 3.77 | 3.84 | 1.15 | 8.4 | 2.0 | 92 | 94 | 2.2 |
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Nearest 2025 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.