MLB / Players

Jonathon Niese

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 215 lb

BornOctober 27, 1986 · Lima, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 2, 2008

Final gameAugust 23, 2016

Seasons9 (2008–2016)

New York Mets 2008–2016; Pittsburgh Pirates 2016

Percentile snapshot

2015 season — qualified pitchers

75.3

7.8

42.9

SHO

192

27.3

36.4

45.5

113

3.9

44.2

176.7

22.1

ERA

4.13

22.1

WHIP

1.398

10.4

K/9

5.76

7.8

FIP

4.44

14.3

FIP-

117.9

7.8

ERA+

91.3

18.2

sWAR

1.2

20.8

of 78 qualified 2015 pitchers (min 162 IP) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

92.1

10.2

sWAR

8.3

84.7

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2008	3	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	.167	.167	.167	.333	-25.5	-10.7	.151	-0.3
2009	5	9	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	.125	.125	.125	.250	-52.0	-32.6	.113	0.2
2010	31	66	53	3	10	2	0	4	8	27	.189	.295	.226	.521	51.7	46.0	.258	1.5
2011	29	60	49	1	3	0	1	0	4	33	.061	.132	.102	.234	-42.6	-32.9	.121	0.0
2012	30	68	55	8	12	0	0	2	6	19	.218	.295	.218	.513	48.7	46.2	.248	3.1
2013	24	45	39	6	8	2	0	4	4	17	.205	.279	.256	.535	54.6	54.5	.254	1.4
2014	31	65	55	3	5	1	0	4	6	29	.091	.180	.109	.289	-18.8	-13.8	.152	2.0
2015	33	60	52	5	9	1	0	4	5	18	.173	.246	.192	.438	22.6	25.0	.212	1.2
2016	30	34	30	1	3	1	0	1	2	14	.100	.156	.133	.290	-29.9	-20.8	.140	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2008	3	3	1	1	0	0	20	11	8	11	2	14.0	7.07	2.000	7.07	5.11	121.6	59.4	-0.3
2009	5	5	1	1	0	0	27	12	9	18	1	25.7	4.21	1.403	6.31	3.21	78.6	97.1	0.2
2010	30	30	9	10	2	1	192	81	62	148	20	173.7	4.20	1.463	7.67	4.13	105.7	93.0	1.5
2011	27	26	11	11	0	0	178	77	44	138	14	157.3	4.40	1.411	7.89	3.33	90.8	83.3	0.0
2012	30	30	13	9	0	0	174	72	49	155	22	190.3	3.40	1.172	7.33	3.85	101.6	111.2	3.1
2013	24	24	8	8	1	1	158	59	48	105	10	143.0	3.71	1.441	6.61	3.55	100.2	95.5	1.4
2014	30	30	9	11	0	0	193	71	45	138	17	187.7	3.40	1.268	6.62	3.64	104.8	102.1	2.0
2015	33	29	9	10	0	0	192	81	55	113	20	176.7	4.13	1.398	5.76	4.44	117.9	91.3	1.2
2016	29	20	8	7	0	0	145	74	47	88	25	121.0	5.50	1.587	6.55	5.66	137.8	74.7	-0.8

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

216

413

347

RBI

164

.1499

OBP

.2277

SLG

.1758

OPS

.4035

Pitching

G (P)

211

197

SHO

1,189

SO (P)

914

BB allowed

367

ERA

4.071

WHIP

1.3840

K/9

6.92

219th-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	3B	RBI	BB	TB
2011-05-16	MIA @ NYM Gameday	1	0	1	1	0	0	3
2010-09-05	NYM @ CHC Gameday	4	0	2	0	2	0	2
2013-04-01	SD @ NYM Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	1	2
2012-06-03	STL @ NYM Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	0	2
2012-09-14	NYM @ MIL Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2012-06-03	STL @ NYM Gameday	6.0	6	0	0	1	10	0
2013-08-21	ATL @ NYM Gameday	7.0	5	1	1	3	9	0
2013-08-16	NYM @ SD Gameday	6.0	6	1	1	1	9	1
2010-07-07	CIN @ NYM Gameday	7.2	6	3	3	1	8	2
2011-06-09	NYM @ MIL Gameday	7.2	3	1	1	4	8	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.