# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nelson-figueroa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:38:01.859Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nelson-figueroa"
name: "Nelson Figueroa"
slug: "nelson-figueroa"
description: "Nelson Figueroa is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Philadelphia Phillies, Milwaukee Brewers, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Mets, and Houston Astros. Figueroa also played for the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) in Taiwan. He featured a fastball topping out at 91 mph, slider, curveball, changeup, and a splitter. He has also worked as a post-game studio analyst for Mets broadcasts."
tagline: "American baseball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nelson_Figueroa_on_Septemper_29%2C_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1974-05-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.579449333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "尼爾森·菲格羅亞"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "نيلسون فيغيروا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "نيلسون فيجيروا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Figueroa"
    title: "Nelson Figueroa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Figueroa"
    title: "Nelson Figueroa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Figueroa"
    title: "Nelson Figueroa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8D%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A2"
    title: "ネルソン・フィゲロア"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3337961"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump