Carl Nichols
Baltimore Orioles 1986–1988; Houston Astros 1989–1991
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .167 | .000 | .167 | -121.0 | -49.2 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1987 | 13 | 23 | 21 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .381 | .409 | .429 | .838 | 128.8 | 124.9 | .376 | 0.3 |
| 1988 | 18 | 52 | 47 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .191 | .235 | .213 | .448 | 25.0 | 28.0 | .213 | -0.2 |
| 1989 | 8 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .077 | .077 | .077 | .154 | -73.1 | -55.0 | .072 | -0.2 |
| 1990 | 32 | 61 | 49 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .204 | .317 | .265 | .582 | 66.1 | 64.4 | .278 | 0.1 |
| 1991 | 20 | 56 | 51 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .196 | .268 | .255 | .523 | 47.9 | 51.7 | .244 | 0.0 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990-07-14 | PHI @ HOU Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1987-09-27 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1991-04-13 | SF @ HOU Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1991-05-26 | SD @ HOU Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1987-10-04 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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.