Hideo Nomo

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 210 lb

BornAugust 31, 1968 · Osaka, Osaka, Japan

MLB debutMay 2, 1995

Final gameApril 18, 2008

Seasons12 (1995–2008)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1995–1998; New York Mets 1998; Milwaukee Brewers 1999; Detroit Tigers 2000; Boston Red Sox 2001; Los Angeles Dodgers 2002–2004; Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2005; Kansas City Royals 2008

Percentile snapshot

2003 season — qualified pitchers

53.8

80.2

15.4

53.8

SHO

85.7

175

83.5

84.6

3.3

177

84.6

31.9

218.3

86.8

ERA

3.09

91.2

WHIP

1.250

K/9

7.30

80.2

FIP

4.14

54.9

FIP-

102.0

ERA+

131.4

82.4

sWAR

4.6

83.5

of 92 qualified 2003 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

98.2

30.7

sWAR

17.8

92.6

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1995	28	72	66	2	6	0	0	0	4	0	33	.091	.090	.091	.180	-62.2	-50.1	.082	4.3
1996	33	87	75	1	10	4	0	0	3	2	38	.133	.156	.187	.343	-11.0	-6.3	.157	4.0
1997	33	75	69	3	11	5	0	0	2	1	32	.159	.171	.232	.403	-0.4	8.6	.180	1.4
1998	29	55	50	4	9	0	0	1	5	1	17	.180	.196	.240	.436	7.6	16.0	.196	0.2
1999	29	64	56	3	12	2	1	0	5	1	22	.214	.228	.286	.514	23.1	30.0	.229	1.9
2000	32	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-117.0	-100.0	.000	2.0
2001	33	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	.200	.200	.200	.400	-3.0	6.3	.179	2.0
2002	34	74	63	3	4	2	0	1	3	5	32	.063	.132	.143	.275	-33.4	-25.2	.136	3.3
2003	33	74	65	4	9	1	0	1	3	3	25	.138	.176	.200	.376	-6.4	0.9	.174	4.6
2004	18	27	26	2	3	0	0	1	1	0	17	.115	.115	.231	.346	-26.6	-11.5	.146	-3.0
2005	19	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.4	-100.0	.000	-2.3
2008	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1995	28	28	13	6	4	3	124	54	78	236	14	191.3	2.54	1.056	11.10	2.85	73.8	152.2	4.3
1996	33	33	16	11	3	2	180	81	85	234	23	228.3	3.19	1.161	9.22	3.50	89.2	122.7	4.0
1997	33	33	14	12	1	0	193	98	92	233	23	207.3	4.25	1.375	10.11	3.73	95.3	92.0	1.4
1998	29	28	6	12	3	0	130	86	94	167	19	157.3	4.92	1.424	9.55	4.38	106.9	83.3	0.2
1999	28	28	12	8	0	0	173	89	78	161	27	176.3	4.54	1.423	8.22	4.62	102.2	99.5	1.9
2000	32	31	8	12	1	0	191	100	89	181	31	190.0	4.74	1.474	8.57	4.89	101.8	101.4	2.0
2001	33	33	13	10	2	2	171	99	96	220	26	198.0	4.50	1.348	10.00	4.08	90.8	99.9	2.0
2002	34	34	16	6	0	0	189	83	101	193	26	220.3	3.39	1.316	7.88	4.06	104.5	114.7	3.3
2003	33	33	16	13	2	2	175	75	98	177	24	218.3	3.09	1.250	7.30	4.14	102.0	131.4	4.6
2004	18	18	4	11	0	0	105	77	42	54	19	84.0	8.25	1.750	5.79	6.25	151.2	50.1	-3.0
2005	19	19	5	8	0	0	127	81	51	59	16	100.7	7.24	1.768	5.27	5.53	127.9	59.7	-2.3
2008	3	0	0	0	0	0	10	9	4	3	3	4.3	18.69	3.231	6.23	13.55	309.3	23.4	-0.6

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

324

543

485

RBI

222

.1340

OBP

.1563

SLG

.1918

OPS

.3481

Pitching

G (P)

323

318

300th-most career GS

123

424th-most career W

109

450th-most career L

SHO

1,976

463rd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,918

108th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

908

157th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.244

WHIP

1.3540

K/9

8.73

48th-highest career K/9

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	TB
2003-07-17	STL @ LAD Gameday	2	1	2	1	1	3	6
1996-06-09	CIN @ LAD Gameday	2	0	2	2	0	0	4
1998-04-28	MIL @ LAD Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4
2002-09-26	SD @ LAD Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4
2004-06-19	NYY @ LAD Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1996-04-13	MIA @ LAD Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	3	17	1
1995-06-14	LAD @ PIT Gameday	8.0	6	3	2	2	16	0
2001-05-25	TOR @ BOS Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	0	14	0
1995-05-17	PIT @ LAD Gameday	7.0	2	0	0	3	14	0
1995-06-24	SF @ LAD Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	3	13	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

1× Rookie of the Year1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.