Brandon Nimmo
CF | Bats/Throws: L/R | 6' 3" 206LBS | Age: 31
Draft: 2011 | Rd: 1, #13, New York Mets | Cheyenne East (WY) HS
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2021 386 325 51 95 8 5 .292 .401 .437 .838
2022 673 580 102 159 16 3 .274 .367 .433 .800
2023 682 592 89 162 24 3 .274 .363 .466 .829
8 Seasons 3,050 2,565 424 692 87 26 .270 .380 .447 .827
AVG HR SB OPS
2021 .292 8 5 .838
2022 .274 16 3 .800
2023 .274 24 3 .829
8 Seasons .270 87 26 .827
MLB Percentile Rankings
Hits Spray Chart

Statcast Batting Statistics

Season Age Pitches Batted
Balls
Barrels Barrel % Barrel/PA Exit
Velocity
Max EV Launch
Angle
Sweet
Spot %
XBA XSLG WOBA XWOBA XWOBACON HardHit% K% BB%
2016 23 349 53 1 1.9 1.3 87.9 108.7 10.4 32.1 .277 .388 .299 .323 .399 28.3 25.0 7.5
2017 24 946 120 8 6.7 3.7 89.2 109.9 10.0 43.3 .255 .426 .348 .350 .429 37.5 27.9 15.3
2018 25 2262 293 19 6.5 3.6 89.9 110.9 10.7 33.4 .237 .392 .385 .349 .398 42.1 26.2 15.0
2019 26 1086 132 9 6.8 3.5 89.3 109.9 12.2 35.6 .216 .349 .340 .331 .376 35.6 28.0 18.1
2020 27 978 143 11 7.7 4.9 87.2 106.9 7.6 30.8 .250 .423 .387 .359 .373 32.9 19.1 14.7
2021 28 1548 248 10 4.0 2.6 89.3 111.5 8.8 34.3 .267 .386 .369 .345 .373 41.1 20.5 14.0
2022 29 2781 470 33 7.0 4.9 89.4 111.9 6.1 28.1 .256 .403 .353 .338 .355 39.8 17.2 10.5
2023 30 2847 451 43 9.5 6.3 91.8 112.0 12.2 33.5 .261 .453 .359 .352 .400 47.9 21.4 10.9
Player 12797 1910 134 7.0 4.4 89.8 112.0 9.5 32.8 .252 .409 .362 .345 .383 41.0 22.1 13.0
MLB 6.9 4.7 88.4 122.4 12.2 33.1 .245 .406 .316 .315 .369 36.3 22.1 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.




Fastball: 4 Seam, 2 Seam, Cutter, Sinker. Offspeed: Split, Change, Fork, Screw. Breaking: Slider, Curve, Knuckle, Sweeper, Slurve, Other
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Batted Ball Profile

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2016 43.4 18.9 34.0 3.8 32.1 34.0 34.0 1.9 32.1 17.0 37.7 5.7 1.9 1.3
2017 43.3 22.5 30.8 3.3 34.2 33.3 32.5 5.0 29.2 20.8 30.8 6.7 6.7 3.7
2018 46.1 21.2 24.2 8.5 42.7 34.8 22.2 2.7 37.2 21.5 24.6 7.2 6.5 3.6
2019 40.2 28.0 28.0 3.8 34.1 37.9 28.0 2.3 29.5 27.3 28.0 4.5 6.8 3.5
2020 47.6 20.3 25.2 7.0 33.6 30.8 35.7 4.9 39.2 20.3 22.4 4.2 7.7 4.9
2021 48.4 18.5 27.4 5.6 32.7 35.1 32.3 5.2 32.7 21.8 30.2 5.2 4.0 2.6
2022 51.7 20.6 21.7 6.0 29.6 41.5 28.9 5.5 38.5 19.8 25.1 3.6 7.0 4.9
2023 41.2 26.4 25.5 6.9 31.0 37.0 31.9 3.1 31.3 25.9 23.7 6.4 9.5 6.3
Player 46.1 22.4 25.3 6.2 33.3 36.8 29.8 4.1 34.5 22.3 26.1 5.4 7.0 4.4
MLB 44.6 23.5 24.9 7.0 37.0 37.6 25.3 3.9 32.9 24.7 24.4 5.8 6.9 4.7
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Run Values by Pitch Type

Year Pitch Type Team RV/100 Run Value Pitches % PA BA SLG wOBA Whiff% K% PutAway % xBA xSLG xwOBA Hard Hit %
2023 4-Seam Fastball 0.5 6 1,131 39.7 242 .272 .475 .382 18.5 21.9 16.1 .272 .474 .377 54.0
2023 Sinker -0.9 -4 491 17.2 133 .237 .356 .308 14.6 19.5 20.5 .251 .417 .330 50.5
2023 Slider 2.4 8 341 12.0 90 .300 .637 .443 27.4 22.2 13.6 .292 .530 .381 45.9
2023 Changeup 2.6 6 248 8.7 61 .288 .462 .378 29.9 18.0 12.4 .249 .422 .346 31.7
2023 Curveball 2.1 5 228 8.0 59 .333 .500 .389 34.0 30.5 20.2 .251 .420 .320 50.0
2023 Cutter -0.8 -2 222 7.8 47 .200 .325 .281 28.7 19.1 15.8 .227 .403 .324 40.6
2023 Sweeper -1.1 -1 99 3.5 25 .292 .375 .280 18.2 16.0 10.5 .219 .282 .212 33.3
2023 Split-Finger 2.2 1 67 2.4 18 .353 .706 .461 20.6 22.2 13.8 .263 .652 .393 61.5
2023 Slurve 1.9 0 9 0.3 2 .500 1.000 .625 25.0 0.0 0.0 .485 1.050 .643 50.0
2022 4-Seam Fastball 1.0 10 1,020 36.7 225 .282 .409 .384 14.7 13.3 10.1 .255 .416 .368 41.4
2022 Sinker 0.8 5 591 21.3 153 .271 .419 .367 8.4 12.4 11.2 .260 .356 .329 41.1
2022 Slider 2.2 8 359 12.9 100 .256 .389 .325 32.0 23.0 15.3 .231 .333 .285 30.9
2022 Changeup 3.2 9 276 9.9 73 .242 .545 .374 25.8 17.8 15.5 .265 .496 .355 38.2
2022 Curveball 2.7 7 243 8.7 58 .315 .426 .365 29.5 24.1 14.1 .294 .435 .343 55.0
2022 Cutter 2.0 4 189 6.8 38 .429 .771 .525 23.6 18.4 12.5 .309 .569 .401 35.7
2022 Sweeper -2.9 -2 66 2.4 17 .125 .125 .147 23.5 29.4 16.7 .154 .299 .220 18.2
2022 Split-Finger -3.2 -1 33 1.2 8 .000 .000 .000 53.8 62.5 41.7 .121 .154 .120 33.3
2022 Slurve -9.9 0 4 0.1 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .349 .521 .367 100.0
2021 4-Seam Fastball 0.5 3 613 39.6 130 .298 .423 .390 21.0 22.3 17.6 .254 .365 .353 42.7
2021 Sinker 1.3 4 290 18.7 76 .295 .508 .426 24.1 22.4 23.6 .284 .428 .381 46.7
2021 Slider 3.2 6 192 12.4 48 .333 .548 .412 31.1 27.1 16.9 .261 .388 .324 43.3
2021 Changeup 0.1 0 176 11.4 56 .216 .235 .250 21.7 14.3 13.6 .251 .290 .282 23.3
2021 Cutter 1.4 2 133 8.6 38 .265 .441 .345 19.4 15.8 15.4 .264 .444 .346 50.0
2021 Curveball 2.1 2 118 7.6 29 .320 .360 .357 20.8 20.7 14.0 .260 .344 .321 42.1
2021 Split-Finger 14.7 2 14 0.9 6 .400 1.200 .808 0.0 0.0 0.0 .443 .953 .599 60.0
2021 Sweeper 2.6 0 9 0.6 2 .500 .500 .450 33.3 0.0 0.0 .296 .309 .276 50.0
2021 Slurve 5.6 0 3 0.2 1 1.000 1.000 .900 0.0 0.0 0.0 .903 .984 .833 0.0
2020 4-Seam Fastball 1.6 7 421 43.0 94 .293 .573 .437 21.3 23.4 17.5 .245 .433 .372 37.7
2020 Sinker -1.1 -2 146 14.9 39 .250 .281 .328 18.0 15.4 13.6 .236 .297 .319 26.9
2020 Curveball 1.5 2 112 11.5 19 .313 .500 .405 19.0 21.1 8.5 .244 .388 .336 25.0
2020 Slider -1.3 -1 108 11.0 21 .200 .500 .310 27.3 19.0 7.5 .232 .448 .304 25.0
2020 Changeup 0.6 1 107 10.9 31 .240 .280 .321 27.1 12.9 8.9 .233 .359 .344 14.3
2020 Cutter 3.7 2 52 5.3 12 .545 1.091 .688 16.7 8.3 5.6 .448 .865 .556 80.0
2020 Split-Finger 1.7 0 24 2.5 6 .250 .250 .383 28.6 16.7 9.1 .290 .692 .500 66.7
2020 Sweeper -10.8 0 3 0.3 2 .000 .000 .000 0.0 50.0 33.3 .058 .061 .054 0.0
2019 4-Seam Fastball 2.2 10 460 42.4 98 .264 .528 .437 28.0 25.5 17.5 .249 .414 .388 37.5
2019 Sinker 2.4 4 183 16.9 45 .316 .395 .357 9.7 20.0 20.5 .288 .421 .359 46.7
2019 Slider -0.4 -1 138 12.7 32 .222 .519 .347 38.6 40.6 28.9 .199 .409 .325 53.3
2019 Changeup -2.8 -3 125 11.5 39 .034 .034 .203 33.3 28.2 21.6 .120 .142 .265 11.1
2019 Curveball -0.6 -1 102 9.4 21 .158 .316 .225 30.6 38.1 19.0 .124 .191 .164 16.7
2019 Cutter 3.1 2 55 5.1 14 .250 .583 .393 22.2 28.6 20.0 .201 .361 .297 37.5
2019 Split-Finger 0.1 0 21 1.9 3 .000 .000 .233 50.0 33.3 14.3 .250 .267 .383 0.0
2019 Sweeper -1.4 0 2 0.2 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2018 4-Seam Fastball 1.4 13 879 38.9 190 .281 .511 .438 24.6 26.8 18.7 .243 .409 .391 43.2
2018 Sinker 0.9 4 439 19.4 112 .261 .489 .401 18.8 22.3 24.3 .238 .402 .350 55.2
2018 Slider 2.9 8 285 12.6 74 .290 .548 .410 29.8 29.7 20.0 .251 .447 .363 40.0
2018 Changeup 0.1 0 251 11.1 67 .210 .355 .288 31.4 25.4 21.5 .222 .351 .282 31.1
2018 Curveball 0.6 1 215 9.5 40 .237 .526 .336 39.7 40.0 23.9 .168 .286 .219 31.8
2018 Cutter 1.8 2 125 5.5 36 .323 .484 .422 24.6 22.2 19.0 .274 .392 .344 39.1
2018 Split-Finger 1.6 1 46 2.0 9 .143 .286 .294 35.3 11.1 8.3 .324 .401 .400 33.3
2018 Knuckleball 7.6 1 10 0.4 2 -- -- .700 -- 0.0 0.0 -- -- .700 --
2018 Sweeper 5.8 0 5 0.2 2 .000 .000 .350 0.0 0.0 0.0 .087 .099 .389 0.0
2018 Slurve 0.9 0 5 0.2 -- -- -- 0.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2017 4-Seam Fastball 1.4 5 339 35.8 79 .267 .467 .416 21.5 26.6 18.6 .250 .450 .393 37.5
2017 Sinker -0.9 -2 210 22.2 50 .250 .450 .364 12.2 20.0 19.6 .292 .501 .393 45.2
2017 Curveball 0.6 1 120 12.7 18 .235 .353 .328 40.6 33.3 15.8 .228 .296 .251 27.3
2017 Slider -2.9 -3 106 11.2 24 .136 .136 .148 41.9 54.2 30.2 .155 .176 .169 30.0
2017 Changeup 2.8 2 69 7.3 19 .412 .706 .500 29.0 15.8 16.7 .322 .650 .437 42.9
2017 Cutter -1.3 -1 44 4.7 7 .167 .167 .229 26.7 42.9 27.3 .174 .180 .234 0.0
2017 Split-Finger 2.6 1 31 3.3 10 .333 .333 .340 20.0 20.0 11.1 .341 .595 .420 57.1
2017 Knuckleball 3.8 1 15 1.6 3 .333 .667 .417 14.3 33.3 33.3 .212 .315 .236 0.0
2017 Sweeper 0.5 0 10 1.1 3 .000 .000 .233 0.0 33.3 25.0 .010 .033 .245 0.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2016 80 349 -1 -1 1 3 1
2017 214 946 -4 -9 11 6 3
2018 532 2,260 7 -14 25 13 31
2019 252 1,086 -5 -3 12 7 11
2020 225 978 -6 -6 12 7 7
2021 385 1,547 0 -9 21 8 20
2022 686 2,834 -2 -4 30 14 38
2023 680 2,847 -3 -14 25 12 20
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Plate Discipline

Season Pitches Zone % Zone Swing % Zone Contact % Chase % Chase Contact % Edge % 1st Pitch Swing % Swing % Whiff % Meatball % Meatball Swing %
2016 349 47.0 70.1 84.3 27.0 64.0 43.6 37.5 47.3 21.8 6.6 100.0
2017 946 50.4 59.7 81.1 13.6 51.6 44.4 22.4 36.9 24.4 7.7 78.1
2018 2,262 50.2 62.3 79.5 16.2 48.1 43.2 29.5 39.4 26.5 7.6 80.2
2019 1,086 50.2 63.3 78.0 18.1 49.0 45.0 28.0 40.8 27.3 8.3 80.0
2020 978 48.6 67.4 83.1 17.3 57.5 44.0 31.6 41.6 21.6 6.3 75.8
2021 1,548 52.9 67.0 81.1 15.0 54.1 42.8 29.5 42.5 22.6 7.8 76.9
2022 2,781 51.7 64.8 85.9 21.2 61.4 43.4 30.9 43.8 19.6 7.5 78.9
2023 2,847 52.9 62.3 84.3 19.9 55.1 42.1 25.5 42.4 22.0 8.3 73.0
Player 12,797 51.3 63.9 82.6 18.3 55.3 43.3 28.7 41.7 22.8 7.7 77.8
MLB 48.6 67.0 82.0 28.5 58.0 42.6 29.6 47.1 24.8 7.3 76.1
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Year xwOBA xBA xSLG xISO xOBP Brl Brl% EV Max EV Hard
Hit%
K% BB% Whiff% Chase
Rate
Speed OAA Arm
Strength
2016 65 90
2017 75 88
2018 76 27 34 42 95 32 44 70 79 75 16 94 34 98 83 86
2019 70 84
2020 76 51 49 49 90 55 48 22 39 21 67 90 73 94 77 14 49
2021 68 72 26 15 94 8 13 48 80 49 55 96 68 100 92 88 60
2022 74 64 53 46 88 67 44 57 80 48 76 78 80 91 84 90 72
2023 78 61 69 68 81 81 59 87 78 83 55 80 68 91 66 69 40
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Expected Home Runs

Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2016 17.9 1 1.0 0 0 0 1 100.0
2017 18.3 5 4.9 0 3 3 2 40.0
2018 17.8 17 15.2 2 6 13 6 35.3
2019 17.7 8 5.5 3 5 6 1 12.5
2020 17.8 8 8.1 0 4 5 4 50.0
2021 18.3 8 8.0 0 2 3 5 62.5
2022 19.2 16 16.0 0 7 16 5 31.3
2023 19.0 24 26.7 -3 14 16 14 58.3
Player 18.5 87 85.5 2 41 62 38 43.7

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2016 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2017 5 5 2 5 7 5 6 5 2 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 4 5 5 6 5 5 5 4 6 5 6 4
2018 17 20 9 17 15 14 17 16 13 11 13 16 20 12 14 21 14 14 15 18 15 16 22 17 16 12 13 15 17 15 10
2019 8 9 4 6 5 6 8 6 3 3 4 5 7 5 6 5 6 5 5 6 5 6 7 7 6 5 4 8 8 3 2
2020 8 9 7 9 8 9 8 9 8 7 7 9 9 7 8 8 8 8 10 8 9 9 11 8 7 7 9 7 9 7 4
2021 8 8 6 8 8 8 8 8 7 8 8 8 9 8 8 9 8 8 8 8 8 9 9 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
2022 16 20 10 17 15 15 18 15 10 10 13 16 19 17 19 19 17 18 14 15 17 17 21 19 13 14 16 19 18 15 13
2023 24 26 23 28 30 28 29 23 27 23 26 35 26 21 30 29 29 23 25 30 23 28 36 29 22 23 27 30 27 27 18
Player 87 98 62 91 89 86 95 83 71 68 77 95 96 76 91 97 88 82 84 90 83 91 113 94 78 75 82 94 93 82 60
! Note: This tells how many of this player's home runs would have been out of other stadiums. This accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects. For these purposes, the 2020 Blue Jays home field was still Rogers Centre, not Sahlen Field.
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Year to Year Changes

Metric 2016 2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-  
Exit Velocity 87.9 89.2 1.3 89.9 0.7 89.3 -0.6 87.2 -2.1 89.3 2.1 89.4 0.1 91.8 2.4
Launch Angle 10.4 10.0 -0.4 10.7 0.7 12.2 1.5 7.6 -4.6 8.8 1.2 6.1 -2.7 12.2 6.1
Barrel % 1.9 6.7 4.8 6.5 -0.2 6.8 0.3 7.7 0.9 4.0 -3.7 7.0 3.0 9.5 2.5
Hard Hit % 28.3 37.5 9.2 42.1 4.6 35.6 -6.5 32.9 -2.7 41.1 8.2 39.8 -1.3 47.9 8.1
Sweet Spot % 32.1 43.3 11.2 33.4 -9.9 35.6 2.2 30.8 -4.8 34.3 3.5 28.1 -6.2 33.5 5.4
xBA .277 .255 -0.022 .237 -0.018 .216 -0.021 .250 0.034 .267 0.017 .256 -0.011 .261 0.005
BA .274 .260 -0.014 .263 0.003 .221 -0.042 .280 0.059 .292 0.012 .274 -0.018 .274 0.000
xwOBA .323 .350 0.027 .349 -0.001 .331 -0.018 .359 0.028 .345 -0.014 .338 -0.007 .352 0.014
wOBA .299 .348 0.049 .385 0.037 .340 -0.045 .387 0.047 .369 -0.018 .353 -0.016 .359 0.006
xSLG .388 .426 0.038 .392 -0.034 .349 -0.043 .423 0.074 .386 -0.037 .403 0.017 .453 0.050
SLG .329 .418 0.089 .483 0.065 .407 -0.076 .484 0.077 .437 -0.047 .433 -0.004 .466 0.033
K% 25.0 27.9 2.9 26.2 -1.7 28.0 1.8 19.1 -8.9 20.5 1.4 17.2 -3.3 21.4 4.2
BB% 7.5 15.3 7.8 15.0 -0.3 18.1 3.1 14.7 -3.4 14.0 -0.7 10.5 -3.5 10.9 0.4
Swing % 47.3 36.9 -10.4 39.4 2.5 40.8 1.4 41.6 0.8 42.5 0.9 43.8 1.3 42.4 -1.4
Whiff% 21.8 24.4 2.6 26.5 2.1 27.3 0.8 21.6 -5.7 22.6 1.0 19.6 -3.0 22.0 2.4
In Zone % 47.0 50.4 3.4 50.2 -0.2 50.2 0.0 48.6 -1.6 52.9 4.3 51.7 -1.2 52.9 1.2
Out of Zone % 53.0 49.6 -3.4 49.8 0.2 49.8 0.0 51.4 1.6 47.1 -4.3 48.3 1.2 47.1 -1.2
Out of Zone Swing % 27.0 13.6 -13.4 16.2 2.6 18.1 1.9 17.3 -0.8 15.0 -2.3 21.2 6.2 19.9 -1.3
First Pitch Swing % 37.5 22.4 -15.1 29.5 7.1 28.0 -1.5 31.6 3.6 29.5 -2.1 30.9 1.4 25.5 -5.4
First Pitch Strike % 55.0 57.5 2.5 63.2 5.7 57.5 -5.7 61.3 3.8 61.1 -0.2 61.1 0.0 62.5 1.4
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts L 79 3 3.8 .292 .293
2017 Shifts L 214 13 6.1 .350 .311
2018 Shifts L 533 97 18.2 .379 .412
2019 Shifts L 252 121 48.0 .428 .245
2020 Shifts L 225 78 34.7 .372 .414
2021 Shifts L 384 174 45.3 .361 .383
2022 Shifts L 672 158 23.5 .367 .302
2023 Shades L 680 199 29.3 .357 .362
! Note: Shifts are through the 2022 season, Shaded starting from the 2023 season, Shift: three or more infielders are on the same side of second base, Shade: positioned outside of their typical responsible slices of the field.
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Pitch Tempo

Bases EmptyRunners On Base
SeasonTeamPitchesTempoFast %Slow %PitchesTempoFast %Slow %
2016 105 20.3 12.4% 7.6% 53 25.3 0.0% 28.3%
2017 287 19.1 7.3% 1.4% 210 23.6 0.0% 9.0%
2018 826 18.1 14.9% 1.2% 336 24.0 0.0% 12.5%
2019 360 18.3 13.9% 1.7% 180 25.6 0.0% 17.2%
2020 365 18.7 16.4% 1.9% 121 25.6 1.7% 23.1%
2021 558 19.2 8.2% 1.1% 210 26.1 0.0% 21.9%
2022 1025 19.9 7.1% 3.1% 357 26.3 0.0% 24.6%
2023 1015 15.0 49.9% 0.2% 415 19.1 4.6% 0.2%
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Statcast Rankings