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Nick Lodolo

Age: 28
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 216 lb
Number: #40

Born: February 5, 1998 in La Verne, CA, United States
MLB debut: April 13, 2022
Drafted: 2019, round 1
College: Texas Christian
High school: Damien
Salary, 2026: $4.72M

dbWAR: 4.9
IP: 108.2
ERA: 4.97
FIP: 5.71
K/9: 6.9
FIP−: 137

Nick Lodolo is a starting pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2026 he struck out 83 batters over 108.2 innings across 21 appearances, 21 of them starts, going 3-6. His ERA of 4.97 is 18.9% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 13th of 20 on his team, and 408th of 538 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.71 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 21.5% of swings (9.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.1%. His -0.7 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.

FIP5.71

K/96.9

WHIP1.48

WAR-.7

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	CIN	21	21	108.2	3	6	115	60	83	46	4.97	5.71	1.48	6.9	3.8	119	137	-0.7
2025	CIN	29	28	156.2	9	8	138	58	156	31	3.33	3.81	1.08	9.0	1.8	80	92	2.5
2024	CIN	21	21	115.1	9	6	101	61	122	37	4.76	3.95	1.20	9.5	2.9	117	97	1.7
2023	CIN	7	7	34.1	2	1	50	24	47	10	6.29	5.79	1.75	12.3	2.6	145	134	-0.1
2022	CIN	19	19	103.1	4	7	90	42	131	39	3.66	3.90	1.25	11.4	3.4	92	98	1.5

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	115	98	32	4	11	24	.327	.417	.531	.415	20.9%
vs RHB	371	314	83	16	35	59	.264	.352	.487	.365	15.9%

Pitch sequencing

What Nick Lodolo 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


Four-Seam Fastball	27.4%	521	93.8	2,271	43.8%	18.1%	104	.260	.835
Sinker	25.6%	486	93.6	2,296	48.8%	8.1%	128	.320	1.084
Curveball	24.4%	463	82.4	2,574	42.3%	40.6%	82	.244	.701
Changeup	22.6%	429	88.0	1,878	38.9%	22.3%	101	.267	.717

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

Merrill KellyAZ

ERA: 4.94
FIP: 5.32
SO: 113
WAR: -0.2

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Shane BieberTOR

ERA: 4.53
FIP: 5.15
SO: 44
WAR: 0.1

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Ryan JohnsonLAA

ERA: 4.93
FIP: 5.39
SO: 76
WAR: -0.4

Very close

Ryan FeltnerCOL

ERA: 5.64
FIP: 5.12
SO: 89
WAR: 0.2

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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.