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Nick Nelson

Age
29
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 1"
Weight
205 lb
Born
December 5, 1995 in Panama City, FL, United States
MLB debut
August 1, 2020
Drafted
2014, round 31
College
Gulf Coast CC
High school
Rutherford

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dbWAR
1.4
Regular season, 5 season(s)
IP
5.1
ERA
5.06
FIP
1.85
K/9
13.5
FIP−
45
100 = avg

Nick Nelson was a relief pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2024 he struck out 8 batters over 5.1 innings across 4 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 5.06 was 24.1% higher than the league average of 4.08. Stripping out defence, his 1.85 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 22.7% of swings (10.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 30.8%. His 0.2 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, 2024 regular season.

FIP1.85
K/913.5
WHIP1.88
WAR.2

WAR by season

1.20.6-0.12021222324

Pitching Regular season

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

Trend
2024PHI405.100083825.061.851.8813.53.4124450.2
2023PHI105.110021321.695.690.755.13.439131-0.0
2022PHI47268.2321663769364.853.041.499.04.7122771.2
2021NYY11214.1020151422168.794.082.1613.810.0206960.1
2020NYY11020.2100201118114.795.561.507.84.8108125-0.1

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 Nelson's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2022 PostPHIWorld Series101.0000000200.002.000.0
2020 PostNYYALDS202.0000100020.000.509.0
CareerPostseason total · 2 Octobers303.0000100220.001.006.0

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.

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2024. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB982013.250.333.250.27633.3%
vs RHB17156015.400.471.533.44129.4%

Pitch sequencing

What Nick 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, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Sinker30.2%2993.61,95144.8%0.0%8——
Four-Seam Fastball26.0%2594.41,90256.0%0.0%5——
Slider24.0%2386.92,32756.5%44.4%4——
Changeup17.7%1787.31,96435.3%55.6%5——
Nick 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. 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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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.