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2019 Projections (Preseason PECOTA - seasonal age 29)
IP ERA WHIP SO W L SV WARP
68.3 4.28 1.35 64 4 4 0 0.8
Birth Date2-13-1990
Height6' 2"
Weight217 lbs
Age35 years, 1 months, 9 days
BatsR
ThrowsR
0.62015
0.42016
2017
2.62018
0.82019
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WARP Summary

MLB Statistics

Historical (past-seasons) WARP is now based on DRA..
cFIP and DRA are not available on a by-team basis and display as zeroes(0). See TOT line for season totals of these stats.
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YEARTeamGGSIPWLSVHBBSOHRPPFH/9BB/9HR/9K/9GB%BABIPWHIPFIPERAcFIPDRADRA-WARP
2011 LAN 10 6 34.7 1 2 0 28 20 23 2 95 7.3 5.2 0.5 6.0 0% .263 1.38 4.31 3.63 119 5.69 132.3 -0.3
2012 LAN 10 10 56.3 1 6 0 63 20 34 5 93 10.1 3.2 0.8 5.4 0% .319 1.47 4.14 4.15 112 5.55 127.1 -0.2
2012 MIA 12 12 63.0 3 7 0 70 27 44 5 97 10.0 3.9 0.7 6.3 0% .316 1.54 4.19 4.43 106 5.12 117.3 0.0
2012 TOT 22 22 119.3 4 13 0 133 47 78 10 95 10.0 3.5 0.8 5.9 0% .000 1.51 4.17 4.30 109 5.32 121.9 -0.2
2013 MIA 18 18 106.3 4 6 0 100 40 78 7 97 8.5 3.4 0.6 6.6 0% .286 1.32 3.56 3.39 103 4.15 99.4 1.0
2014 MIA 33 33 199.7 6 14 0 223 43 142 14 97 10.1 1.9 0.6 6.4 0% .323 1.33 3.34 4.37 100 3.97 97.4 2.1
2015 NYA 27 27 154.3 14 3 0 175 49 121 10 110 10.2 2.9 0.6 7.1 0% .337 1.45 3.38 4.20 101 4.74 110.7 0.6
2016 NYA 24 21 124.7 9 8 0 123 40 97 23 112 8.9 2.9 1.7 7.0 50% .275 1.31 4.93 4.76 110 5.08 112.3 0.4
2018 BOS 12 11 54.0 3 3 0 57 12 48 3 107 9.5 2.0 0.5 8.0 46% .325 1.28 2.91 3.33 89 3.28 73.2 1.3
2018 TBA 10 10 57.0 3 4 0 48 8 53 11 97 7.6 1.3 1.7 8.4 48% .245 0.98 4.31 4.26 89 3.19 71.3 1.4
2018 TOT 22 21 111.0 6 7 0 105 20 101 14 102 8.5 1.6 1.1 8.2 47% .287 1.13 3.63 3.81 89 3.23 72.2 2.6
2019 BOS 23 12 67.7 2 1 0 72 35 70 16 102 9.6 4.7 2.1 9.3 45% .315 1.58 5.93 5.99 114 6.37 130.7 -0.5
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Statistics for All Levels

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Plate Discipline

YEARPitsZone%Swing%Contact%Z-Swing%O-Swing%Z-Contact%O-Contact%SwStr%
2011 592 0.5068 0.4476 0.7811 0.6167 0.2740 0.7892 0.7625 0.2189
2012 2052 0.5297 0.4586 0.8119 0.6109 0.2870 0.8494 0.7220 0.1881
2013 1682 0.5363 0.4572 0.8088 0.6364 0.2500 0.8676 0.6359 0.1912
2014 3144 0.5506 0.4930 0.8052 0.6678 0.2788 0.8668 0.6244 0.1948
2015 2633 0.4968 0.4713 0.7865 0.6430 0.3019 0.8609 0.6300 0.2135
2016 2049 0.5120 0.4778 0.7773 0.6292 0.3190 0.8348 0.6583 0.2227
2018 1784 0.5684 0.5376 0.7800 0.6854 0.3429 0.8360 0.6326 0.2200
2019 1300 0.4900 0.4400 0.7325 0.6044 0.2821 0.8234 0.5455 0.2675
Career152360.52690.47760.78940.64190.29370.84890.64390.2106

Injury History  —  No longer being updated

Last Update: 12/31/2014 23:59 ET

Compensation

YearsDescriptionSalary
13 yrPrevious$115,919,000
13 yrTotal$115,919,000

 

Service TimeAgentContract Status
11 y 13 dACES2 years/$34M (2023-24), vesting option

Details
  • 2 years/$34M (2013). Signed by Texas as a free agent 12/27/22. $2M signing bonus. 23:$16M, 24:$16M, 25:$20M player option if Eovaldi 1) pitches 300 innings combined in 2023-24 or 2) finishes in the top 5 of the 2024 Cy Young vote or 3) finishes in top 7 of 2024 Cy Young vote and makes 2024 All Star team. limited no-trade protection. Annual performance bonuses based on innings pitched: $750,000 each for 130, 140, 150, 160 IP. Award bonuses: $250,000 for Cy Young ($200,000 for second in vote, $150,000 for third, $100,000 for fourth, $50,000 for fifth). $150,000 for WS MVP. $100,000 each All Star, Gold Glove, LCS MVP. Perks: hotel suite on road, may buy 4 premium home-game tickets. Eovaldi to donate up to 1 percent of annual earnings to club charity.
  • 4 years/$68M (2019-22). Re-signed by Boston as a free agent 12/6/18. 19-22: $17M annually.
  • 1 year/$2M (2017), plus 2018 club option. Signed by Tampa Bay as a free agent 2/12/17. 17:$2M, 18:$2M club option. Performance bonuses: $0.15M for 22 games started. $0.25M for 24 GS. $0.35M for 26 GS. $0.45M for 28 GS. $0.55M for 30 GS. $0.15M for 160 IP as starter. $0.25M for 170 IP as starter. $0.35M for 180 IP as starter. $0.45M for 190 IP as starter. $0.55M for 200 IP as starter. $0.1M for 40 IP as reliever. $0.125M for 45 IP as reliever. $0.15M for 50 IP as reliever. $0.175M for 55 IP as reliever. $0.2M for 60 IP as reliever. $0.1M for 40 relief appearances. $0.125M for 45 relief appearances. $0.15M for 50 relief appearances. $0.175M for 55 relief appearances, $0.2M for 60 relief appearances. $0.125M each for 25, 30 games finished. $0.15M for 35 GF. $0.175M for 40 GF. $0.2M for 45 GF. $0.225M for 50 GF. $0.25M each for 55, 60 GF. Tampa Bay exercised 2018 option 11/2/17.
  • 1 year/$5.6M (2016). Re-signed by NY Yankees 1/19/16 (avoided arbitration, $6.3M-$4.9M). DFA by NY Yankees 11/18/16. Released 11/23/16.
  • 1 year/$3.3M (2015). Re-signed by NY Yankees 1/16/15 (avoided arbitration).
  • 1 year/$517,000 (2014). Re-signed by Miami 3/1/14. Acquired by NY Yankees in trade from Miami 12/19/14.
  • 1 year/$502,000 (2013). Re-signed by Miami 2/20/13.
  • 1 year (2012). Re-signed by LA Dodgers 3/12. Acquired by Miami in trade from LA Dodgers 7/25/12.
  • 1 year (2011). Contract purchased by LA Dodgers 8/6/11.
  • Drafted 2008 (11-337) (Alvin HS, Texas). $250,000 signing bonus.

2019 Preseason Forecast

Last Update: 1/27/2017 12:35 ET

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Preseason Long-Term Forecast (Beyond the 2019 Projections)

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BP Annual Player Comments

YearComment
2019  Due to publishing agreements, the 2019 player comments and team essays are only available in the Baseball Prospectus 2019 book (available in hardcopy, and soon e-book and Kindle).
2018 Nathan Eovaldi will spend the spring trying to show that his second Tommy John surgery didn't rob him of his elite velocity.
2017 A second Tommy John surgery awaits Eovaldi, who partially tore the UCL in his right elbow and tore his flexor tendon off the bone in his right forearm. He’ll likely return in 2018 at age 28, which is troublesome considering he's very much still a work in progress as a starter. During his time with the Yankees, he increased his fastball velocity and added a cutter and splitter to his repertoire. While this equated in more swings outside the zone he still struggled as a starter, and very much earned a disastrous 5.08 ERA in the role. A move to the bullpen late in the season seemed to benefit Eovaldi, who tossed 7.2 scoreless frames as a reliever, and that could be his home when he finally heals.
2016 Eovaldi came to the Yankees as a guy with a reputation for throwing hard but giving up too many hits and failing to live up to his peripherals. He pretty much lived up, or down, to that reputation. The complaint here is that while he has top-notch heat, the secondary stuff just isn't there consistently. To his credit Eovaldi did develop a mightily intriguing splitter that did seem to help him down the stretch. He's old enough to no longer be considered a project, but unfortunately he still has all the characteristics of a project. The sterling 14-3 record might have helped him win friends with some over the course of the year, but frankly if you are reading this it's unlikely you are among them.
2015 Things went pretty well for Eovaldi last year, except when they didn't. The fireballing righty still hasn't found a way to translate his prodigious fastball velocity into strikeouts—he had the fourth-fastest heat but the 70th best K rate among qualified starters—but he has cut down on walks and started leaning more heavily on an improved slider. Throwing just under 200 innings during his age-24 season is a pretty neat trick as well. At the same time, he had a tough time stranding runners due to his lack of swing-and-miss stuff and propensity for pounding the zone. He had the second-lowest left-on-base percentage (66 percent) in baseball and the fourth-most hits allowed (223). He'll battle with Chris Capuano for starts in New York's rotation, which is fitting: They're essentially opposite pitchers who get almost the same results.
2014 It�s one thing to have a powerful fastball, and it�s another to know what to do with it. In 2013, Eovaldi�s average fastball velocity of 97 mph was the best in baseball among starters (barely edging out Gerrit Cole), but his strikeout rate of 17.3 percent was more than 2.5 percentage points below league average. That comes partly from not inducing enough swings outside the strike zone�his 25 percent swing rate on such pitches was fourth-worst in baseball by a starter. On the bright side, he has increased the whiff rate on his slider each year he�s been in the majors, reaching 33 percent in 2013. He might be an average major-league starter even without a grade jump in command, but the potential of his raw stuff has yet to be fulfilled.
2013 Many Marlins fans were disappointed when Eovaldi headlined the return package for Hanley Ramirez, but the former 11th-round pick flashed mid-rotation potential during his second tour of big-league duty. Eovaldi�s command needs work, but his fastball and slider are quality offerings and his changeup is steadily coming along. After enduring his worst month of the season in August, a six-start stretch marred by more walks than strikeouts, Eovaldi bounced back with a much-improved 3.38 K/BB ratio in September, and he will look to build off of that finish while competing for a rotation spot in spring training.
2012 Eovaldi's improved command of his 94-96 mph fastball and the rapid development of a new slider led to the best strikeout rate of his young career, not counting his 10 2/3 innings in rookie ball; just as importantly, he stayed healthy, and by the time he was recalled in early August, he had already thrown more innings than in any of his professional seasons. He delivered three quality starts out of six for the Dodgers, allowing more than two runs just once, before being effectively shut down due to innings concerns. Eovaldi's heavy fastball helps him keep the ball in the park, but he'll need to improve his secondary pitches and trim his walk rate significantly in order to have any staying power.
2011 Nathan Eovaldi, an 11th-round pick in 2008, has a high ceiling thanks to his mid-90s heat, but poor command and a lack of consistency with his breaking pitches have prevented him from turning it into strikeouts thus far. His future may be in the bullpen if he can't expand his arsenal.
2010 Tommy John surgery and a commitment to Texas A&M scared most teams off Nathan Eovaldi, but the Dodgers plucked him in the 11th round in 2008; he can pump his fastball into the mid-90s, but his secondary stuff is a work in progress.

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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Nathan Eovaldi threw 27,197 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2011 and 2025, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2025, he relied primarily on his Splitter (89mph) and Fourseam Fastball (95mph), also mixing in a Cutter (91mph), Curve (76mph) and Sinker (94mph). He also rarely threw a Slider (85mph).