P · 2018
Jacob Nix
- Age
- 22
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 220 lb
- Born
- January 9, 1996 in Los Alamitos, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- August 10, 2018
- dbWAR
- -.7 2 season(s)
- PA
- 16
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -119 100 = avg
Jacob Nix is a pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 16 plate appearances in 8 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 92.7 mph off the bat, hit 25.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 67.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -119 wRC+ puts his offence 219% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -4.1 runs with the bat, +0.0 on the bases, +0.0 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.
League context
Percentile among qualified batters, 2018.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -3.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 68.8% | .000 | -4.1 | -119 | -0.4 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 9 | 9 | 42.1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 52 | 33 | 21 | 13 | 7.02 | 5.83 | 1.54 | 4.5 | 2.8 | 169 | 140 | -0.4 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 60.0% |
| vs RHP | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 72.7% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 111 | 100 | 32 | 6 | 8 | 14 | .320 | .378 | .600 | .416 | 12.6% |
| vs RHB | 79 | 71 | 20 | 2 | 5 | 7 | .282 | .342 | .465 | .351 | 8.9% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 4 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 92.7 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 98.5 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 25.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 25.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -4.0° average
A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.
Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2018.
Situational hitting
How Jacob Nix hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2018.
Pitch sequencing
What Jacob Nix 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 2018.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 410 | 92.9 | 2,231 | 40.7% | 12.1% | |
| Curveball | 129 | 76.7 | 2,078 | 45.0% | 23.5% | |
| Changeup | 93 | 80.5 | 2,339 | 36.6% | 22.0% | |
| Slider | 24 | 81.1 | 2,318 | 45.8% | 10.0% |
Head to head
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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.