Bio
- Debut
- 1890
Bio
- Debut
- 1890
Stats
Standard
Career regular season
- GP
- 620
- W
- 361
- L
- 208
- ERA
- 2.95
- IP
- 5056.1
- K
- 1,868
- BB
- 1,268
- WHIP
- 1.22
| GP: Games the player appeared in, however briefly. | W: Games in which this pitcher was credited with the win. | L: Games in which this pitcher was charged with the loss. | ERA: Earned runs allowed per nine innings pitched — lower is better. Under 3.00 is excellent. | IP: Innings pitched. The decimal counts outs, so 6.2 is six innings and two more outs. | K: Batters this pitcher struck out. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | WHIP: Walks and hits allowed per inning pitched — lower is better. Around 1.00 is elite. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890 | ATL | 48 | 27 | 19 | 2.23 | 424.0 | 222 | 112 | 1.15 |
| 1891 | ATL | 52 | 30 | 17 | 2.39 | 425.1 | 240 | 103 | 1.21 |
| 1892 | ATL | 53 | 35 | 16 | 2.84 | 453.0 | 187 | 121 | 1.16 |
| 1893 | ATL | 52 | 34 | 14 | 3.52 | 425.0 | 94 | 118 | 1.28 |
| 1894 | ATL | 50 | 32 | 13 | 4.75 | 407.0 | 113 | 121 | 1.50 |
| 1895 | ATL | 47 | 26 | 16 | 3.41 | 379.2 | 140 | 86 | 1.32 |
| 1896 | ATL | 49 | 30 | 14 | 2.83 | 372.1 | 102 | 101 | 1.31 |
| 1897 | ATL | 46 | 31 | 11 | 2.64 | 368.0 | 127 | 68 | 1.17 |
| 1898 | ATL | 50 | 31 | 12 | 2.13 | 388.0 | 138 | 85 | 1.03 |
| 1899 | ATL | 42 | 21 | 19 | 2.99 | 343.1 | 108 | 82 | 1.19 |
| 1900 | ATL | 29 | 13 | 16 | 3.07 | 231.1 | 53 | 72 | 1.24 |
| 1901 | ATL | 38 | 19 | 16 | 3.22 | 321.0 | 143 | 90 | 1.23 |
| 1904 | STL | 36 | 21 | 13 | 2.02 | 317.0 | 134 | 50 | 1.00 |
| 1905 |  STL/PHI | 24 | 11 | 11 | 3.12 | 190.1 | 66 | 46 | 1.26 |
| 1906 | PHI | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9.82 | 11.0 | 1 | 13 | 2.73 |
Career Postseason
- GP
- 2
- W
- 2
- L
- 0
- ERA
- 1.00
- IP
- 18.0
- K
- 13
- BB
- 4
- WHIP
- 1.17
Expanded
Career regular season
- QS
- 0
- CG
- 531
- SHO
- 48
- K/9
- 3.3
- GB
- 0
- FB
- 0
- G/F
- 0.00
- WP
- 0
| QS: Quality starts: six innings or more with no more than three earned runs. | CG: Complete games, pitched from the first out to the last. | SHO: Shutouts — complete games with no run allowed. | K/9: Strikeouts for every nine innings pitched. | GB: Ground balls hit against this pitcher. | FB: Fly balls hit against this pitcher. | G/F: Ground balls for every fly ball hit against this pitcher. | WP: Wild pitches — throws the catcher had no chance to stop. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890 | ATL | 0 | 47 | 7 | 4.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1891 | ATL | 0 | 45 | 5 | 5.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1892 | ATL | 0 | 49 | 5 | 3.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1893 | ATL | 0 | 43 | 1 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1894 | ATL | 0 | 40 | 3 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1895 | ATL | 0 | 42 | 1 | 3.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1896 | ATL | 0 | 37 | 3 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1897 | ATL | 0 | 37 | 2 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1898 | ATL | 0 | 40 | 5 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1899 | ATL | 0 | 37 | 4 | 2.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1900 | ATL | 0 | 25 | 4 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901 | ATL | 0 | 33 | 4 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1904 | STL | 0 | 35 | 3 | 3.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1905 | STL/PHI | 0 | 20 | 1 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1906 | PHI | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What were Kid Nichols's career stats?
Kid Nichols played 15 seasons for the Braves, the Cardinals and the Phillies. He had 361 wins and 1,868 strikeouts with a 2.95 ERA over 5,056.1 innings. His best season was 1892: 35 wins, a 2.84 ERA and 187 strikeouts.
League leaderboards and awards
15 seasons, 1 postseason, 1890 to 1906
Kid Nichols sits top 10 all time in wins (pitching).
All-time career rank
- 117th in strikeouts (pitching) (1,868)
- 6th in wins (pitching) (361)
Among the 8,948 MLB players with a career line on file, regular season. A place deeper than 300th is not listed.
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