AAA · P · Las Vegas Aviators (ATH)
Nick Hernandez
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 212 lb · born Missouri City, TX, USA · age 31 · draft 2016 rd 8 · played P 32 · MLB debut 2023-09-12
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-28): 1 G · 2.0 IP · 9.00 ERA · 3 SO · 2.00 WHIP
36 batters faced scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipNick Hernandez #RA-NH · 2024 Topps Chrome Rookie Autograph · 20 recent sales 7N ▼4.7%
His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.
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Scout’s note
Nick Hernandez reached the big leagues at 31 last September — an eighth-round pick from Missouri City, Texas, who waited longer than most. He's ungraded on purpose: our stuff model is stability-tested but not outcome-validated, so no arm gets a board flag. What cleared the bar is the ERA-FIP luck gap, the distance between his run prevention and what his peripherals earned, where the hand-filed regression call sits. At Las Vegas, 52 innings and a 7.79 ERA — the gap says that number isn't the whole picture.
Current signals
The read: Hernandez is in the Index ungraded, on purpose: our stuff model is stability-tested but not outcome-validated, so no big-league arm gets a board flag from it — not even one of the best seasons in the sport. (Calls are another matter: the ERA-FIP luck gap did clear the bar, and we file arm regression calls by hand from it.) The page is here because the player matters; the board grade waits for the science.
- Stuff-lite
- -0.3535
- CSW%
- 27.5%
- Pitches
- 1044
- Age
- 31
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The Bureau on Nick Hernandez
The scouting press, in their own words
Marlins defeat the Nationals 4-2 and take the series. Hernandez & Marsee homered. Calvin Faucher closed it which was interesting. Postgame show next https://t.co/2jOKQkY27k
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | IP | W–L | SV | ERA | SO | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Quad Cities River Bandits | A(Full) | 4 | 6.2 | 0–1 | 0 | 1.35 | 7 | 2.10 |
| 2017 | Buies Creek Astros | A(Adv) | 24 | 34.0 | 0–1 | 9 | 1.59 | 48 | 0.85 |
| 2017 | Corpus Christi Hooks | AA | 14 | 24.2 | 1–2 | 1 | 5.84 | 22 | 1.30 |
| 2019 | Fayetteville Woodpeckers | A(Adv) | 5 | 7.2 | 0–1 | 0 | 5.87 | 12 | 1.30 |
| 2019 | Corpus Christi Hooks | AA | 18 | 23.2 | 2–3 | 1 | 3.42 | 25 | 1.35 |
| 2021 | Corpus Christi Hooks | AA | 32 | 54.0 | 3–1 | 6 | 1.67 | 68 | 1.04 |
| 2021 | Sugar Land Skeeters | AAA | 1 | 2.0 | 0–0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 1.50 |
| 2022 | Corpus Christi Hooks | AA | 3 | 4.1 | 0–0 | 0 | 0.00 | 8 | 0.23 |
| 2022 | Sugar Land Space Cowboys | AAA | 48 | 59.2 | 5–5 | 0 | 3.92 | 77 | 1.14 |
| 2023 | San Antonio Missions | AA | 24 | 28.1 | 3–1 | 6 | 3.18 | 43 | 1.06 |
| 2023 | El Paso Chihuahuas | AAA | 23 | 32.2 | 2–0 | 1 | 4.41 | 39 | 1.19 |
| 2023 | San Diego Padres | MLB | 2 | 3.0 | 0–0 | 0 | 12.00 | 5 | 2.33 |
| 2024 | El Paso Chihuahuas | AAA | 17 | 23.2 | 0–0 | 0 | 1.90 | 34 | 1.18 |
| 2024 | Sugar Land Space Cowboys | AAA | 26 | 28.2 | 5–4 | 0 | 2.83 | 36 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | Total | AAA | 43 | 52.1 | 5–4 | 0 | 2.41 | 70 | 1.15 |
| 2024 | Houston Astros | MLB | 5 | 8.0 | 0–0 | 0 | 7.88 | 10 | 1.38 |
| 2025 | Sugar Land Space Cowboys | AAA | 46 | 46.2 | 4–5 | 11 | 2.12 | 63 | 1.01 |
| 2025 | Houston Astros | MLB | 10 | 10.2 | 0–0 | 0 | 5.06 | 11 | 1.88 |
| 2026 | Las Vegas Aviators | AAA | 32 | 52.0 | 4–1 | 0 | 7.79 | 54 | 1.85 |
| MLB CAREER | 17 | 21.2 | 0–0 | 0 | 7.06 | 26 | 1.75 | ||
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