Scott Nielsen

{{Short description|American baseball player (born 1958)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|image=1984 Nashville Scott Nielsen.jpg

|width=

|caption=Nielsen with the Nashville Sounds in 1984

|name=Scott Nielsen

|position=Pitcher

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1958|12|18}}

|birth_place=Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=July 7

|debutyear=1986

|debutteam=New York Yankees

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=June 14

|finalyear=1989

|finalteam=New York Yankees

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=9–11

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=5.49

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=47

|teams=

• New York Yankees ({{mlby|1986}}, {{mlby|1988}}–{{mlby|1989}})
• Chicago White Sox ({{mlby|1987}})

}}

Jeffrey Scott Nielsen (born December 18, 1958) is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher. He played during four seasons at the major league level for the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox. He was drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the 6th round of the 1983 amateur draft. Nielsen, played his first professional season with their Class A (Short Season) Bellingham Mariners in 1983, and his last season with the New York Mets' Triple-A club, the Tidewater Tides, in 1990.

Nielsen was a college baseball player at Brigham Young University. He interrupted his collegiate career to serve a Mission in Argentina for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.