What years did Nestor Cortes play?

Nestor Cortes played in Major League Baseball from 2018 to 2025.

Was Nestor Cortes a pitcher?

Yes. Nestor Cortes pitched in the major leagues, recording 35 wins and 604 strikeouts.

How many home runs did Nestor Cortes hit?

Nestor Cortes hit 0 career home runs.

What teams has Nestor Cortes played for?

Nestor Cortes has played for 5 teams: the Baltimore Orioles (2018), the New York Yankees (2019, 2021–2024), the Seattle Mariners (2020), the Milwaukee Brewers (2025), and the San Diego Padres (2025).

Has Nestor Cortes won a Cy Young Award?

No. Nestor Cortes has not won the Cy Young Award through the 2025 season, the latest in the site's award records.

What awards has Nestor Cortes won?

Nestor Cortes has been selected to 1 All-Star Game.

What are Nestor Cortes's career stats?

In 143 games, Nestor Cortes has gone 35-25 with a 3.94 ERA, 604 strikeouts, and 602.1 innings pitched.

What position does Nestor Cortes play?

Nestor Cortes plays primarily as a pitcher, the position where he has appeared in the most games.

How tall is Nestor Cortes and how much does he weigh?

Nestor Cortes is listed at 5 feet 11 inches and 210 pounds.

What was Nestor Cortes's career ERA?

Nestor Cortes finished with a 3.94 career ERA, going 35-25 with 604 strikeouts.

How many strikeouts did Nestor Cortes have?

Nestor Cortes recorded 604 career strikeouts.

How many All-Star Games has Nestor Cortes made?

Nestor Cortes has been selected to 1 All-Star Game.

Nestor Cortes

Pitcher · Career Stats, Bio & Records (2018-2025)

Nestor Cortes is a pitcher who has played in Major League Baseball since 2018 for 5 teams, including the Baltimore Orioles, a span of 8 seasons. Across 143 career appearances, he has gone 35-25 with a 3.94 ERA and 604 strikeouts. Nestor Cortes is an All-Star. His career Pitcher PIV — Baseball Data Hub's era-adjusted measure of pitching impact — is 1655.9.

W (Wins):: Games credited to a pitcher whose team took a lead it never surrendered while he was the pitcher of record.
ERA (Earned Run Average):: Earned runs allowed per nine innings pitched: (ER × 9) ÷ IP. The primary measure of pitching effectiveness.
SO (Strikeouts):: For a batter, times retired on a third strike; for a pitcher, batters retired on a third strike.
WHIP (Walks and Hits per Inning Pitched):: Baserunners allowed per inning: (BB + H) ÷ IP. Under 1.00 is elite.

Data updated October 15, 2026

Active Player

W–L 35–25

ERA 3.94

WHIP 1.19

SO 604

Pitcher PIV thru 2025 1655.9

Position: Pitcher
Bats / Throws: R / L
Height / Weight: 5'11" / 210 lb
Born: 12/10/1994 in Hialeah, FL, USA
MLB Debut: 2018-03-31
Awards: All-Star

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Career Pitching Statistics

Nestor Cortes — Career Pitching Statistics
W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	Pitcher PIV
35	25	143	94	1	1	0	602.1	537	264	102	180	604	3.94	1655.9

Career ERA 3.94 vs. league average 4.22 across their career seasons — 6.5% better than league average.

Season-by-Season Pitching

Pitching Career Arc

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Nestor Cortes Stats, Bio & Career Records
Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA	Lg ERA	Pitcher PIV
2018	BAL	AL	0	0	4	0	0	0	4.2	10	4	4	3	7.71	—	0.0
2019	NYA	AL	5	1	33	1	0	0	66.2	75	42	28	69	5.67	4.51 (-26%)	-1773.4
2020	SEA	AL	0	1	5	1	0	0	7.2	12	13	6	8	15.26	—	0.0
2021	NYA	AL	2	3	22	14	0	0	93.0	75	30	25	103	2.90	4.27 (+32%)	1143.5
2022	NYA	AL	12	4	28	28	1	1	158.1	108	43	38	163	2.44	3.97 (+38%)	3446.7
2023	NYA	AL	5	2	12	12	0	0	63.1	59	35	20	67	4.97	4.33 (-15%)	-245.3
2024	NYA	AL	9	10	31	30	0	0	174.1	162	73	39	162	3.77	4.08 (+8%)	1085.7
2025	MIL	NL	1	1	2	2	0	0	8.0	7	8	7	8	9.00	—	0.0
2025	SDN	NL	1	3	6	6	0	0	26.1	29	16	13	21	5.47	4.16 (-31%)	-2001.3
Career · 9 seasons			35	25	143	94	1	1	602.1	537	264	180	604	3.94	—	1,656

Lg columns show the league average for that season, with the player's figure as a percentage above or below it. Career totals the seasons listed above.

Career Batting Statistics

Nestor Cortes — Career Batting Statistics
G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	PIV
144	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0

Career AVG .000 vs. league average .246 across their career seasons — 100.0% below league average.

Career OBP .000 vs. league average .317 across their career seasons — 100.0% below league average.

Career SLG .000 vs. league average .410 across their career seasons — 100.0% below league average.

Career OPS .000 vs. league average .727 across their career seasons — 100.0% below league average.

Season-by-Season Batting

Career Arc

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Nestor Cortes Stats, Bio & Career Records
Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	AVG	Lg AVG	Lg OBP	Lg SLG	Lg OPS	PIV
2018	BAL	AL	4	0	.000	—	—	—	—	0.0
2019	NYA	AL	33	0	.000	—	—	—	—	0.0
2020	SEA	AL	5	0	.000	—	—	—	—	0.0
2021	NYA	AL	23	1	.000	—	—	—	—	0.0
2022	NYA	AL	28	0	.000	—	—	—	—	0.0
2023	NYA	AL	12	0	.000	—	—	—	—	0.0
2024	NYA	AL	31	0	.000	—	—	—	—	0.0
2025	MIL	NL	2	0	.000	—	—	—	—	0.0
2025	SDN	NL	6	0	.000	—	—	—	—	0.0
Career · 9 seasons			144	1	.000	—	—	—	—	0

Lg columns show the league average for that season, with the player's figure as a percentage above or below it. Career totals the seasons listed above.

Postseason Statistics

Playoff Career Batting

Nestor Cortes — Playoff Career Batting
G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000

Playoff Batting by Year

Nestor Cortes — Playoff Batting by Year
Year	Round	Team	G	AVG
2024	WS	NYA	2	.000
2022	ALCS	NYA	1	.000
2022	ALDS1	NYA	2	.000

Playoff Career Pitching

Nestor Cortes — Playoff Career Pitching
W	L	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA
1	0	5	3	0	14.0	12	8	8	8	5.14

Playoff Pitching by Year

Nestor Cortes — Playoff Pitching by Year
Year	Round	Team	W	G	GS	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA
2024	WS	NYA	0	2	0	2.0	1	2	1	1	9.00
2022	ALCS	NYA	0	1	1	2.0	2	3	3	2	13.50
2022	ALDS1	NYA	1	2	2	10.0	9	3	4	5	2.70

Game Log & Splits

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Per-game data from Retrosheet (regular season, through 2025).

Batting — Home / Away

Nestor Cortes — Batting — Home / Away
Split	G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	AVG
Home	72	0	0	0	0	0	—
Away	72	1	0	0	0	0	.000

Pitching — Home / Away

Nestor Cortes — Pitching — Home / Away
Split	G	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Home	72	317.0	255	120	88	317	3.41
Away	71	285.1	282	144	92	287	4.54

Last 10 Games — Pitching

Nestor Cortes — Last 10 Games — Pitching
Date	Tm	Opp	Dec	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2025-09-03	SDP	BAL	L	2.1	7	6	6	3	2	4
2025-08-29	SDP	MIN	L	3.0	5	3	3	2	2	0
2025-08-23	SDP	LAD	W	6.0	1	0	0	0	3	0
2025-08-18	SDP	SFG	L	5.2	7	4	4	4	5	3
2025-08-12	SDP	SFG	—	4.2	6	1	1	1	6	0
2025-08-06	SDP	AZ	—	4.2	3	2	2	3	3	1
2025-04-03	MIL	CIN	W	6.0	1	0	0	2	6	0
2025-03-29	MIL	NYY	L	2.0	6	8	8	5	2	5
2024-09-18	NYY	SEA	—	6.0	4	0	0	3	6	0
2024-09-12	NYY	BOS	—	5.0	3	1	1	3	9	1

Fielding Statistics

Career Fielding Totals by Position

Nestor Cortes — Career Fielding Totals by Position
Position	G	GS	PO	A	E	DP
P	143	94	19	36	2	5

Season-by-Season Fielding

Nestor Cortes — Season-by-Season Fielding
Year	Team	Pos	G	GS	PO	A	E	DP
2018	BAL	P	4	0	0	1	0	1
2019	NYA	P	33	1	1	5	1	2
2020	SEA	P	5	1	0	0	0	0
2021	NYA	P	22	14	3	4	0	1
2022	NYA	P	28	28	5	8	1	0
2023	NYA	P	12	12	5	5	0	0
2024	NYA	P	31	30	5	10	0	1
2025	MIL	P	2	2	0	2	0	0
2025	SDN	P	6	6	0	1	0	0

Career Games by Position

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Nestor Cortes Stats, Bio & Career Records
Position	Games
Pitcher	143

Award Voting History

Nestor Cortes — Award Voting History
Year	Award	League	Finish	Points Won	Points Max	Votes First
2022	Cy Young Award	AL	8th	3.0	210	0

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Nestor Cortes: the record in brief

Nestor Cortes made a major league debut on March 31, 2018 and is still active, so the totals on this page keep changing. By club, Cortes's seasons break down as the Baltimore Orioles (2018), the New York Yankees (2019 through 2024), the Seattle Mariners (2020), the Milwaukee Brewers (2025), and the San Diego Padres (2025). Born on December 10, 1994, in Hialeah, FL, USA, Cortes is listed as a pitcher and hit right-handed while throwing left-handed. Cortes's listed size is 5 feet, 11 inches and 210 pounds.

Cortes has pitched in 143 games, starting 94, and owns a 35-25 record and 3.94 ERA. Also on Cortes's record: 604 strikeouts. That 3.94 ERA compares with a 4.22 league average across the same seasons, 6.5% better. No season topped the 12 wins of 2022. 2022 was Cortes's sharpest full season, a 2.44 ERA against the league's 3.97. Pitcher PIV, the site's era-adjusted run-prevention measure, totals 1,655.9 for Cortes's career.

Frequently Asked Questions about Nestor Cortes

What years did Nestor Cortes play?: Nestor Cortes played in Major League Baseball from 2018 to 2025.
Was Nestor Cortes a pitcher?: Yes. Nestor Cortes pitched in the major leagues, recording 35 wins and 604 strikeouts.
How many home runs did Nestor Cortes hit?: Nestor Cortes hit 0 career home runs.
What teams has Nestor Cortes played for?: Nestor Cortes has played for 5 teams: the Baltimore Orioles (2018), the New York Yankees (2019, 2021–2024), the Seattle Mariners (2020), the Milwaukee Brewers (2025), and the San Diego Padres (2025).
Has Nestor Cortes won a Cy Young Award?: No. Nestor Cortes has not won the Cy Young Award through the 2025 season, the latest in the site's award records.
What awards has Nestor Cortes won?: Nestor Cortes has been selected to 1 All-Star Game.
What are Nestor Cortes's career stats?: In 143 games, Nestor Cortes has gone 35-25 with a 3.94 ERA, 604 strikeouts, and 602.1 innings pitched.
What position does Nestor Cortes play?: Nestor Cortes plays primarily as a pitcher, the position where he has appeared in the most games.
How tall is Nestor Cortes and how much does he weigh?: Nestor Cortes is listed at 5 feet 11 inches and 210 pounds.
What was Nestor Cortes's career ERA?: Nestor Cortes finished with a 3.94 career ERA, going 35-25 with 604 strikeouts.
How many strikeouts did Nestor Cortes have?: Nestor Cortes recorded 604 career strikeouts.
How many All-Star Games has Nestor Cortes made?: Nestor Cortes has been selected to 1 All-Star Game.