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Ivan Nova

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 250 lb

BornJanuary 12, 1987 · San Cristobal, San Cristóbal, D.R.

MLB debutMay 13, 2010

Final gameAugust 14, 2020

Seasons11 (2010–2020)

New York Yankees 2010–2016; Pittsburgh Pirates 2016–2018; Chicago White Sox 2019; Detroit Tigers 2020

Percentile snapshot

2019 season — qualified pitchers

88.3

26.7

16.7

86.7

SHO

225

1.7

6.7

68.3

114

1.7

187.0

63.3

ERA

4.72

8.3

WHIP

1.455

K/9

5.49

1.7

FIP

5.02

3.3

FIP-

110.3

6.7

ERA+

96.5

8.3

sWAR

1.5

8.3

of 61 qualified 2019 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

95.6

20.3

sWAR

9.3

86.2

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	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2010	10	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
2011	28	5	4	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.7	-100.0	.000	2.6
2012	28	9	7	0	1	6	.143	.143	.143	.286	-37.6	-21.6	.127	0.0
2013	23	3	3	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.8	-100.0	.000	2.8
2014	4	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.9
2015	17	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
2016	32	28	26	1	3	18	.115	.115	.115	.231	-55.7	-37.5	.103	1.6
2017	31	60	51	0	1	31	.020	.020	.020	.039	-113.3	-89.5	.017	1.6
2018	29	56	53	1	1	30	.019	.019	.019	.038	-113.8	-89.6	.017	0.7
2019	34	5	5	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-117.7	-100.0	.000	1.5
2020	4	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2010	10	7	1	2	0	0	0	44	21	17	26	4	42.0	4.50	1.452	5.57	4.33	101.8	94.6	0.3
2011	28	27	16	4	0	0	0	163	68	57	98	13	165.3	3.70	1.331	5.33	4.04	95.7	114.1	2.6
2012	28	28	12	8	0	0	0	194	95	56	153	28	170.3	5.02	1.468	8.08	4.55	109.0	83.2	0.0
2013	23	20	9	6	0	3	2	135	48	44	116	9	139.3	3.10	1.285	7.49	3.50	87.6	128.9	2.8
2014	4	4	2	2	0	0	0	32	19	6	12	6	20.7	8.27	1.839	5.23	6.94	180.7	46.4	-0.9
2015	17	17	6	11	0	0	0	99	53	33	63	13	94.0	5.07	1.404	6.03	4.84	120.7	79.0	-0.2
2016	32	26	12	8	1	3	0	175	75	28	127	23	162.0	4.17	1.253	7.06	4.10	97.5	100.5	1.6
2017	31	31	11	14	0	2	1	203	86	36	131	29	187.0	4.14	1.278	6.30	4.48	105.4	102.7	1.6
2018	29	29	9	9	0	0	0	171	75	35	114	26	161.0	4.19	1.280	6.37	4.53	114.9	94.1	0.7
2019	34	34	11	12	0	2	0	225	98	47	114	30	187.0	4.72	1.455	5.49	5.02	110.3	96.5	1.5
2020	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	22	18	9	9	4	19.0	8.53	1.632	4.26	6.38	146.0	51.2	-0.7

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

240

166

149

RBI

.0403

OBP

.0403

SLG

.0403

OPS

.0806

Pitching

G (P)

240

227

SHO

1,348

SO (P)

963

BB allowed

368

ERA

4.381

WHIP

1.3586

K/9

6.43

294th-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	TB
2012-06-11	NYY @ ATL Gameday	3	0	1	1
2016-08-06	CIN @ PIT Gameday	3	1	1	1
2016-08-17	PIT @ SF Gameday	1	0	1	1
2016-09-08	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	0	1	1
2017-05-30	AZ @ PIT Gameday	2	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2012-05-19	CIN @ NYY Gameday	6.0	7	5	5	2	12	1
2013-07-05	BAL @ NYY Gameday	9.0	3	2	2	1	11	1
2016-09-13	PIT @ PHI Gameday	6.0	5	2	1	1	11	0
2011-08-04	NYY @ CWS Gameday	7.2	6	1	1	0	10	0
2012-08-11	NYY @ TOR Gameday	7.1	5	2	2	1	10	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.