MLB / Players

Nino Espinosa

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 192 lb

BornAugust 15, 1953 · Villa Altagracia, San Cristóbal, D.R.

MLB debutSeptember 13, 1974

Final gameSeptember 23, 1981

Seasons8 (1974–1981)

New York Mets 1974–1978; Philadelphia Phillies 1979–1981; Toronto Blue Jays 1981

Percentile snapshot

1979 season — qualified pitchers

34.1

63.5

54.1

32.9

50.6

SHO

76.5

211

50.6

58.8

54.1

27.1

42.4

212.0

47.1

ERA

3.65

52.9

WHIP

1.302

49.4

K/9

3.74

23.5

FIP

4.05

FIP-

106.2

28.2

ERA+

104.5

37.6

sWAR

2.7

48.2

of 86 qualified 1979 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.9

73.6

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	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1974	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	195.9	184.4	.472	0.0
1975	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5
1976	12	11	9	1	0	0	0	1	3	0	.000	.100	.000	.100	-70.7	-68.7	.076	0.2
1977	32	72	62	1	8	1	5	3	15	0	.129	.169	.145	.314	-18.7	-12.5	.153	2.6
1978	32	75	67	6	14	3	4	1	28	0	.209	.221	.254	.474	27.0	34.6	.221	-0.9
1979	36	80	72	3	14	2	6	4	15	1	.194	.237	.222	.459	20.6	25.3	.221	2.7
1980	13	29	26	4	3	1	2	0	9	0	.115	.115	.154	.269	-47.5	-26.5	.123	0.6
1981	15	23	20	0	4	0	2	0	8	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	-1.6	12.8	.188	-1.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1974	2	1	0	0	0	0	12	5	0	2	1	9.0	5.00	1.333	2.00	3.59	100.9	71.1	0.0
1975	2	0	0	1	0	0	8	6	1	2	0	3.0	18.00	3.000	6.00	2.28	65.8	19.3	-0.5
1976	12	5	4	4	0	0	41	17	13	30	3	41.7	3.67	1.296	6.48	3.08	92.9	90.2	0.2
1977	32	29	10	13	7	1	188	76	55	105	17	200.0	3.42	1.215	4.73	3.69	98.5	109.5	2.6
1978	32	32	11	15	6	1	230	107	75	76	24	203.7	4.73	1.498	3.36	4.56	130.9	73.6	-0.9
1979	33	33	14	12	8	3	211	86	65	88	20	212.0	3.65	1.302	3.74	4.05	106.2	104.5	2.7
1980	12	12	3	5	1	0	73	32	19	13	9	76.3	3.77	1.205	1.53	4.76	127.4	99.1	0.6
1981	15	14	2	5	2	0	102	51	24	22	11	74.7	6.15	1.688	2.65	5.00	139.6	58.3	-1.7

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

144

292

258

RBI

.1705

OBP

.1985

SLG

.1977

OPS

.3962

Pitching

G (P)

140

126

SHO

820

SO (P)

338

BB allowed

252

ERA

4.169

WHIP

1.3616

K/9

3.71

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	RBI	TB
1978-07-21	ATL @ NYM Gameday	5	0	2	0	2	2
1978-05-23	NYM @ PIT Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	2
1979-08-15	PHI @ CIN Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	2
1979-04-27	SD @ PHI Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	2
1977-06-16	HOU @ NYM Gameday	2	0	1	1	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1978-04-29	CIN @ NYM Gameday	3.2	7	4	4	2	8	4
1977-07-15	PIT @ NYM Gameday	9.0	4	1	0	1	7	0
1979-07-31	CHC @ PHI Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	1	7	0
1977-08-09	STL @ NYM Gameday	9.0	8	1	1	2	6	0
1978-07-21	ATL @ NYM Gameday	9.0	7	3	3	3	6	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.