Art Nehf

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 176 lb

BornJuly 31, 1892 · Terre Haute, IN, USA

MLB debutAugust 13, 1915

Final gameOctober 3, 1929

Seasons15 (1915–1929)

Boston Braves 1915–1919; New York Giants 1919–1925; Cincinnati Reds 1926; New York Giants 1926; Chicago Cubs 1927; Cincinnati Reds 1927; Chicago Cubs 1928–1929

Percentile snapshot

1928 season — qualified pitchers

58.8

56.5

66.4

48.1

SHO

68.7

190

43.5

32.1

80.2

176.7

ERA

2.65

90.8

WHIP

1.370

47.3

K/9

2.04

8.4

FIP

3.44

90.8

FIP-

88.6

78.6

ERA+

146.5

88.5

sWAR

4.4

81.7

of 132 qualified 1928 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

106.1

61.9

sWAR

36.4

97.5

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1915	12	30	28	1	4	0	0	0	6	1	9	0	0	.143	.172	.143	.315	-11.9	-2.8	.157	0.8
1916	23	44	40	4	5	1	0	0	0	3	12	2	0	.125	.205	.150	.355	8.9	11.7	.185	1.9
1917	38	87	70	8	12	3	2	0	2	13	13	1	0	.171	.310	.271	.581	92.4	83.8	.296	4.0
1918	35	115	95	8	16	3	0	0	3	14	19	0	0	.168	.275	.200	.475	53.5	47.6	.250	3.0
1919	36	106	98	11	21	8	2	1	8	5	19	1	0	.214	.260	.367	.627	84.3	89.3	.294	4.5
1920	40	108	97	11	26	4	0	0	4	7	10	2	1	.268	.317	.309	.627	82.2	82.5	.301	3.2
1921	42	104	89	9	18	2	0	0	5	7	10	0	0	.202	.260	.225	.485	29.4	30.6	.236	2.9
1922	37	108	98	9	25	0	0	1	11	6	7	0	2	.255	.298	.286	.584	51.6	52.0	.277	5.2
1923	34	72	63	5	12	2	0	0	8	6	2	0	0	.190	.282	.222	.504	41.3	36.4	.253	0.7
1924	33	67	57	11	13	1	0	5	13	6	4	1	0	.228	.302	.509	.810	109.4	114.0	.359	2.7
1925	33	57	51	5	11	1	0	0	3	5	5	0	0	.216	.286	.235	.521	40.5	37.8	.254	2.1
1926	9	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-18.9	-8.3	.155	0.0
1927	29	22	20	1	4	1	0	0	5	1	1	0	0	.200	.238	.250	.488	29.0	30.2	.232	0.6
1928	31	70	58	4	11	0	1	1	3	7	8	0	0	.190	.277	.276	.553	46.4	46.7	.267	4.4
1929	32	51	45	3	13	3	0	0	5	5	3	0	0	.289	.360	.356	.716	81.4	78.8	.336	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1915	12	10	5	4	0	6	4	60	22	21	39	0	78.3	2.53	1.034	4.48	2.28	85.4	105.6	0.8
1916	22	12	7	5	0	6	1	110	27	20	36	1	121.0	2.01	1.074	2.68	2.39	94.8	125.5	1.9
1917	38	23	17	8	0	17	5	197	56	39	101	4	233.3	2.16	1.011	3.90	2.29	89.7	118.4	4.0
1918	32	31	15	15	0	28	2	274	85	76	96	2	284.3	2.69	1.231	3.04	2.58	96.0	99.9	3.0
1919	35	31	17	11	0	22	3	221	75	59	77	8	270.7	2.49	1.034	2.56	3.00	105.3	114.2	4.5
1920	40	33	21	12	0	22	4	273	96	45	79	8	280.7	3.08	1.133	2.53	2.90	94.8	99.4	3.2
1921	41	34	20	10	1	18	2	266	105	55	67	18	260.7	3.63	1.231	2.31	4.03	108.4	102.6	2.9
1922	37	35	19	13	1	20	2	286	98	64	60	15	268.3	3.29	1.304	2.01	4.11	101.4	123.4	5.2
1923	34	27	13	10	2	7	1	219	98	49	50	14	196.0	4.50	1.367	2.30	4.16	107.1	86.3	0.7
1924	30	20	14	4	2	11	0	167	69	42	72	14	171.7	3.62	1.217	3.77	3.94	102.5	106.3	2.7
1925	29	20	11	9	1	8	1	193	65	50	63	7	155.0	3.77	1.568	3.66	3.87	95.0	108.0	2.1
1926	9	0	0	1	0	0	0	27	9	6	4	0	18.7	4.34	1.768	1.93	3.60	97.7	85.0	0.0
1927	29	7	4	6	5	3	1	84	32	23	33	2	71.7	4.02	1.493	4.14	3.40	89.4	94.6	0.6
1928	31	21	13	7	0	10	2	190	52	52	40	3	176.7	2.65	1.370	2.04	3.44	88.6	146.5	4.4
1929	32	15	8	5	1	4	0	148	75	39	27	11	120.7	5.59	1.550	2.01	5.07	108.2	83.7	0.4

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

464

1,047

915

192

RBI

122

.2098

OBP

.2813

SLG

.2787

OPS

.5600

Pitching

G (P)

451

319

297th-most career GS

184

162nd-most career W

120

335th-most career L

182

167th-most career CG

SHO

135th-most career SHO

2,708

200th-most career IP

SO (P)

844

BB allowed

640

479th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.204

257th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2391

288th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

2.81

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1924-07-29	STL @ SF Gameday	2	2	2	0	0	2	3	1	8
1919-09-27	PHI @ SF Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	1	1	1	6
1919-06-19	ATL @ PIT Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	0	1	1	4
1919-06-28	SF @ ATL Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	4
1928-05-11	LAD @ CHC Gameday	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1918-09-02	SF @ ATL Gameday	9.0	13	6	5	4	9	0
1917-09-13	SF @ ATL Gameday	8.0	3	2	2	3	9	0
1918-08-01	PIT @ ATL Gameday	21.0	12	2	2	5	8	0
1917-09-22	ATL @ STL Gameday	14.0	7	0	0	2	8	0
1917-06-26	ATL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	7	3	2	2	8	1

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.