Joe Nathan

Positions: Relief Pitcher and Shortstop

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

6-4, 230lb (193cm, 104kg)

Born: November 22, 1974 in Houston, TX us

Draft: Drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 6th round of the 1995 MLB June Amateur Draft from State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook, NY).

High School: Pine Bush Central HS (Pine Bush, NY)

School: State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook, NY)

Last Game: September 27, 2016 (Age 41-310d)
vs. COL 0.1 IP, 0 H, 1 SO, 0 BB, 0 ER

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1999 season

Agents: Dave Pepe

National Team: us USA (WBC)

Full Name: Joseph Michael Nathan

Twitter: @JoeNathan36

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

26.7

ERA

2.87

787

377

923.1

976

WHIP

1.120

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Year	Age	AgeDif	Tm	Lg	Lev	Aff	W	L	W-L%	ERA	RA9	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
1997	22	1.0	Salem-Keizer	NORW	A-	SFG	2	1	.667	2.47	3.19	18	5	4	0	0	2	62.0	53	22	17	7	26	0	44	4	0	2	254	1.274	7.7	1.0	3.8	6.4	1.69
1998	23		2 Teams	2 Lgs	A+-AA	SFG	9	9	.500	3.93	4.33	26	26	0	0	0	0	137.1	120	66	60	17	57	0	128	12	0	1	580	1.289	7.9	1.1	3.7	8.4	2.25
1998	23	-1.3	Shreveport	TL	AA	SFG	1	3	.250	8.80	8.80	4	4	0	0	0	0	15.1	20	15	15	4	9	0	10	2	0	0	74	1.891	11.7	2.3	5.3	5.9	1.11
1998	23	0.5	San Jose	CALL	A+	SFG	8	6	.571	3.32	3.76	22	22	0	0	0	0	122.0	100	51	45	13	48	0	118	10	0	1	506	1.213	7.4	1.0	3.5	8.7	2.46
1999	24		2 Teams	2 Lgs	AAA-AA	SFG	6	5	.545	4.32	5.18	15	15	0	1	0	0	83.1	73	48	40	11	43	0	89	6	2	8	362	1.392	7.9	1.2	4.6	9.6	2.07
1999	24	-2.6	Fresno	PCL	AAA	SFG	6	4	.600	4.46	5.30	13	13	0	1	0	0	74.2	68	44	37	11	36	0	82	5	1	6	324	1.393	8.2	1.3	4.3	9.9	2.28
1999	24	0.2	Shreveport	TL	AA	SFG	0	1	.000	3.12	4.15	2	2	0	0	0	0	8.2	5	4	3	0	7	0	7	1	1	2	38	1.385	5.2	0.0	7.3	7.3	1.00
1999	24	-4.4	SFG	NL	Maj	SFG	7	4	.636	4.18	4.48	19	14	2	0	0	1	90.1	84	45	42	17	46	0	54	1	0	2	395	1.439	8.4	1.7	4.6	5.4	1.17
2000	25		3 Teams	2 Lgs	AAA-A+	SFG	1	3	.250	4.38	4.74	5	5	0	0	0	0	24.2	21	13	12	5	15	0	17	1	0	3	108	1.459	7.7	1.8	5.5	6.2	1.13
2000	25	-2.0	Fresno	PCL	AAA	SFG	0	2	.000	4.40	5.02	3	3	0	0	0	0	14.1	15	8	7	4	7	0	9	0	0	1	64	1.535	9.4	2.5	4.4	5.7	1.29
2000	25	2.1	San Jose	CALL	A+	SFG	0	1	.000	3.60	3.60	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.0	4	2	2	1	1	0	2	0	0	1	19	1.000	7.2	1.8	1.8	3.6	2.00
2000	25	2.1	Bakersfield	CALL	A+	SFG	1	0	1.000	5.06	5.06	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.1	2	3	3	0	7	0	6	1	0	1	25	1.688	3.4	0.0	11.8	10.1	0.86
2000	25	-3.7	SFG	NL	Maj	SFG	5	2	.714	5.21	6.08	20	15	0	0	0	0	93.1	89	63	54	12	63	4	61	4	0	5	426	1.629	8.6	1.2	6.1	5.9	0.97
2001	26		2 Teams	2 Lgs	AA-AAA	SFG	3	11	.214	7.29	7.95	31	17	6	0	0	0	108.2	136	96	88	24	70	5	54	9	1	13	530	1.896	11.3	2.0	5.8	4.5	0.77
2001	26	-0.9	Fresno	PCL	AAA	SFG	0	5	.000	7.77	9.13	10	10	0	0	0	0	46.1	63	47	40	13	33	0	21	5	0	6	236	2.072	12.2	2.5	6.4	4.1	0.64
2001	26	1.9	Shreveport	TL	AA	SFG	3	6	.333	6.93	7.07	21	7	6	0	0	0	62.1	73	49	48	11	37	5	33	4	1	7	294	1.765	10.5	1.6	5.3	4.8	0.89
2002	27	0.1	Fresno	PCL	AAA	SFG	6	12	.333	5.60	5.97	31	25	0	1	0	0	146.1	167	97	91	20	74	0	117	3	0	9	673	1.647	10.3	1.2	4.6	7.2	1.58
2002	27	-1.8	SFG	NL	Maj	SFG	0	0		0.00	0.00	4	0	3	0	0	0	3.2	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	12	0.273	2.5	0.0	0.0	4.9
2003	28	-0.8	SFG	NL	Maj	SFG	12	4	.750	2.96	2.96	78	0	9	0	0	0	79.0	51	26	26	7	33	3	83	3	1	4	316	1.063	5.8	0.8	3.8	9.5	2.52
2004	29	0.0	MIN	AL	Maj	MIN	1	2	.333	1.62	1.74	73	0	63	0	0	44	72.1	48	14	13	3	23	3	89	2	0	5	284	0.982	6.0	0.4	2.9	11.1	3.87
2005	30	0.8	MIN	AL	Maj	MIN	7	4	.636	2.70	2.83	69	0	58	0	0	43	70.0	46	22	21	5	22	1	94	0	0	2	276	0.971	5.9	0.6	2.8	12.1	4.27
2006	31	2.6	MIN	AL	Maj	MIN	7	0	1.000	1.58	1.58	64	0	61	0	0	36	68.1	38	12	12	3	16	4	95	1	0	3	262	0.790	5.0	0.4	2.1	12.5	5.94
2007	32	3.6	MIN	AL	Maj	MIN	4	2	.667	1.88	1.88	68	0	60	0	0	37	71.2	54	15	15	4	19	2	77	1	0	3	282	1.019	6.8	0.5	2.4	9.7	4.05
2008	33	4.7	MIN	AL	Maj	MIN	1	2	.333	1.33	1.73	68	0	57	0	0	39	67.2	43	13	10	5	18	4	74	2	0	2	261	0.901	5.7	0.7	2.4	9.8	4.11
2009	34	5.9	MIN	AL	Maj	MIN	2	2	.500	2.10	2.10	70	0	62	0	0	47	68.2	42	16	16	7	22	1	89	2	0	4	271	0.932	5.5	0.9	2.9	11.7	4.05

2011	36	9.3	Rochester	IL	AAA	MIN	0	0		0.00	3.00	3	1	0	0	0	0	3.0	2	1	0	0	1	0	5	0	0	0	12	1.000	6.0	0.0	3.0	15.0	5.00
2011	36	7.8	MIN	AL	Maj	MIN	2	1	.667	4.84	5.24	48	0	33	0	0	14	44.2	38	26	24	7	14	2	43	3	0	3	191	1.164	7.7	1.4	2.8	8.7	3.07
2012	37	8.8	TEX	AL	Maj	TEX	3	5	.375	2.80	3.22	66	0	62	0	0	37	64.1	55	23	20	7	13	1	78	2	0	5	257	1.057	7.7	1.0	1.8	10.9	6.00
2013	38	9.3	TEX	AL	Maj	TEX	6	2	.750	1.39	1.39	67	0	61	0	0	43	64.2	36	10	10	2	22	3	73	1	0	4	250	0.897	5.0	0.3	3.1	10.2	3.32
2014	39	10.5	DET	AL	Maj	DET	5	4	.556	4.81	4.97	62	0	54	0	0	35	58.0	60	32	31	5	29	3	54	1	1	4	259	1.534	9.3	0.8	4.5	8.4	1.86
2015	40	13.0	Toledo	IL	AAA	DET	0	0		0.00	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	13.5
2015	40	11.7	DET	AL	Maj	DET	0	0		0.00	0.00	1	0	1	0	0	1	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	27.0
2016	41		3 Teams	3 Lgs	AA-AAA	CHC	1	1	.500	2.35	2.35	17	0	6	0	0	2	15.1	6	4	4	2	6	0	16	1	0	0	59	0.783	3.5	1.2	3.5	9.4	2.67
2016	41		2 Teams	NL	Maj	CHC-SFG	2	0	1.000	0.00	0.00	10	0	1	0	0	0	6.1	5	0	0	0	4	0	9	0	0	1	28	1.421	7.1	0.0	5.7	12.8	2.25
2016	41	14.3	Iowa	PCL	AAA	CHC	0	0		6.75	6.75	4	0	0	0	0	0	2.2	0	2	2	0	5	0	3	1	0	0	14	1.875	0.0	0.0	16.9	10.1	0.60
2016	41	16.8	Tennessee	SOUL	AA	CHC	0	1	.000	2.70	2.70	7	0	0	0	0	0	6.2	3	2	2	2	0	0	6	0	0	0	23	0.450	4.1	2.7	0.0	8.1
2016	41	16.5	Richmond	EL	AA	SFG	1	0	1.000	0.00	0.00	6	0	6	0	0	2	6.0	3	0	0	0	1	0	7	0	0	0	22	0.667	4.5	0.0	1.5	10.5	7.00
2016	41	12.9	CHC	NL	Maj	CHC	1	0	1.000	0.00	0.00	3	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	2	0	0	0	2	0	4	0	0	0	10	2.000	9.0	0.0	9.0	18.0	2.00
2016	41	12.9	SFG	NL	Maj	SFG	1	0	1.000	0.00	0.00	7	0	1	0	0	0	4.1	3	0	0	0	2	0	5	0	0	1	18	1.154	6.2	0.0	4.2	10.4	2.50
2017	42	15.6	Syracuse	IL	AAA	WSN	0	2	.000	6.19	7.31	17	0	9	0	0	4	16.0	19	13	11	3	8	0	15	1	0	1	75	1.688	10.7	1.7	4.5	8.4	1.88
Year	Age	AgeDif	Tm	Lg	Lev	Aff	W	L	W-L%	ERA	RA9	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
Majors (16 seasons)					Majors		64	34	.653	2.87	3.09	787	29	587	0	0	377	923.1	690	317	294	84	344	31	976	23	2	47	3771	1.120	6.7	0.8	3.4	9.5	2.84
Minors (10 seasons)					Minors		28	44	.389	4.87	5.42	164	94	25	2	0	8	597.1	597	360	323	89	300	5	486	37	3	37	2655	1.502	9.0	1.3	4.5	7.3	1.62
All Levels (20 Seasons)							92	78	.541	3.65	4.01	951	123	612	2	0	385	1520.2	1287	677	617	173	644	36	1462	60	5	84	6426	1.270	7.6	1.0	3.8	8.7	2.27

AAA (8 seasons)					Minors		12	25	.324	5.57	6.28	82	52	9	2	0	4	304.0	334	212	188	51	164	0	253	15	1	23	1400	1.638	9.9	1.5	4.9	7.5	1.54
AA (4 seasons)					Minors		5	11	.313	6.18	6.36	40	13	12	0	0	2	99.0	104	70	68	17	54	5	63	7	2	9	451	1.596	9.5	1.5	4.9	5.7	1.17
A+ (2 seasons)					Minors		9	7	.563	3.40	3.81	24	24	0	0	0	0	132.1	106	56	50	14	56	0	126	11	0	3	550	1.224	7.2	1.0	3.8	8.6	2.25
A- (1 season)					Minors		2	1	.667	2.47	3.19	18	5	4	0	0	2	62.0	53	22	17	7	26	0	44	4	0	2	254	1.274	7.7	1.0	3.8	6.4	1.69