Joe Nuxhall

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 195 lb

BornJuly 30, 1928 · Hamilton, OH, USA

MLB debutJune 10, 1944

Final gameOctober 2, 1966

Seasons16 (1944–1966)

Cincinnati Reds 1944; Cincinnati Reds 1952–1953; Cincinnati Redlegs 1954–1959; Cincinnati Reds 1960; Kansas City Athletics 1961; Cincinnati Reds 1962; Los Angeles Angels 1962; Cincinnati Reds 1963–1966

Percentile snapshot

1963 season — qualified pitchers

35.2

67.6

77.5

94.4

83.1

SHO

33.8

194

56.3

88.7

169

76.1

71.8

217.3

49.3

ERA

2.61

83.1

WHIP

1.072

88.7

K/9

7.00

80.3

FIP

2.40

94.4

FIP-

72.1

94.4

ERA+

127.7

81.7

sWAR

4.1

77.5

of 72 qualified 1963 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

101.4

43.7

sWAR

27.4

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	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1944	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5
1952	37	23	23	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	8	0	0	.087	.087	.087	.174	-77.3	-51.7	.080	1.3
1953	30	55	49	6	16	2	0	3	8	4	13	0	0	.327	.377	.551	.928	136.4	136.4	.404	2.2
1954	36	66	52	13	9	0	0	3	7	8	12	0	0	.173	.274	.346	.620	52.7	58.7	.281	2.6
1955	53	101	86	10	17	4	0	3	14	8	24	0	0	.198	.268	.349	.617	56.5	59.2	.278	5.2
1956	44	68	59	6	11	2	1	2	7	4	15	0	0	.186	.234	.356	.590	46.4	52.4	.261	2.9
1957	42	70	59	6	14	1	1	0	7	5	15	0	0	.237	.292	.288	.580	51.5	53.4	.269	0.7
1958	36	66	62	4	13	1	0	0	5	1	13	1	2	.210	.219	.226	.445	1.7	15.5	.202	2.5
1959	28	48	44	5	11	3	0	0	2	1	4	0	0	.250	.283	.318	.601	55.7	58.1	.275	1.3
1960	39	28	26	3	2	1	0	0	1	1	6	0	0	.077	.107	.115	.223	-55.7	-39.3	.105	0.2
1961	56	76	65	5	19	2	1	2	13	6	18	0	0	.292	.352	.446	.798	111.1	109.2	.361	0.4
1962	17	30	26	3	7	1	0	1	5	0	3	0	0	.269	.296	.423	.719	88.0	89.6	.321	1.8
1963	35	81	76	6	12	2	0	0	3	0	25	0	0	.158	.169	.184	.353	-12.9	1.3	.163	4.1
1964	34	55	54	2	7	0	0	1	1	0	20	1	0	.130	.130	.185	.315	-29.2	-13.4	.140	0.6
1965	32	53	45	5	8	1	0	0	3	2	9	0	0	.178	.213	.200	.413	6.1	14.3	.196	2.1
1966	35	41	40	2	4	1	0	0	2	0	14	0	0	.100	.100	.125	.225	-63.2	-39.9	.101	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1944	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	5	0	0	0.7	67.50	10.500	0.00	25.03	725.6	5.1	-0.5
1952	37	5	1	4	1	2	0	83	33	42	52	4	92.3	3.22	1.354	5.07	3.32	88.7	116.2	1.3
1953	30	17	9	11	2	5	1	136	68	69	52	13	141.7	4.32	1.447	3.30	4.70	108.1	100.7	2.2
1954	35	14	12	5	0	5	1	188	72	59	85	11	166.7	3.89	1.482	4.59	3.43	81.7	107.9	2.6
1955	50	33	17	12	3	14	5	240	99	78	98	25	257.0	3.47	1.237	3.43	3.78	89.6	121.6	5.2
1956	44	32	13	11	3	10	2	196	83	87	120	18	200.7	3.72	1.410	5.38	3.59	90.6	106.5	2.9
1957	39	28	10	10	1	6	2	192	92	53	99	24	174.3	4.75	1.405	5.11	4.20	102.8	86.0	0.7
1958	36	26	12	11	0	5	0	169	74	63	111	15	175.7	3.79	1.321	5.69	3.45	82.9	109.6	2.5
1959	28	21	9	9	1	6	1	155	62	35	75	10	131.7	4.24	1.443	5.13	3.29	81.2	95.6	1.3
1960	38	6	1	8	0	0	0	130	55	27	72	8	112.0	4.42	1.402	5.79	3.12	81.7	86.5	0.2
1961	37	13	5	8	1	1	0	135	76	65	81	12	128.0	5.34	1.563	5.70	4.05	97.5	77.8	0.4
1962	17	9	5	0	1	1	0	66	24	30	59	4	71.3	3.03	1.346	7.44	3.13	77.9	132.4	1.8
1963	35	29	15	8	2	14	2	194	63	39	169	14	217.3	2.61	1.072	7.00	2.40	72.1	127.7	4.1
1964	32	22	9	8	2	7	4	146	70	51	111	19	154.7	4.07	1.274	6.46	4.02	110.7	89.1	0.6
1965	32	16	11	4	2	5	1	142	57	31	117	18	148.7	3.45	1.164	7.08	3.32	88.8	108.4	2.1
1966	35	16	6	8	0	2	1	136	65	42	71	14	130.0	4.50	1.369	4.92	4.16	107.3	86.1	0.0

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

555

861

766

152

RBI

199

.1984

OBP

.2396

SLG

.2924

OPS

.5320

Pitching

G (P)

526

387th-most career G (P)

287

393rd-most career GS

135

339th-most career W

117

364th-most career L

SHO

246th-most career SHO

2,303

311th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,372

297th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

776

281st-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.901

WHIP

1.3402

K/9

5.36

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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1957-08-23	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	1	5
1955-07-15	CIN @ PIT Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	3	5
1954-09-12	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	1	2	5
1961-06-20	NYY @ ATH Gameday	2	0	2	1	1	0	2	5
1956-07-22	PIT @ CIN Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	1	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1965-08-21	CIN @ PHI Gameday	10.0	5	1	1	2	11	1
1962-08-18	LAD @ CIN Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	1	11	0
1963-06-29	CIN @ SF Gameday	9.0	7	3	1	2	11	0
1965-07-24	CIN @ HOU Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	2	11	0
1956-06-01	SF @ CIN Gameday	8.0	7	3	1	5	11	1

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

2× 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.