Dave Nelson
Cleveland Indians 1968–1969; Washington Senators 1970–1971; Texas Rangers 1972–1975; Kansas City Royals 1976–1977
Percentile snapshot
1974 season — qualified batters
of 132 qualified 1974 batters (min 499 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 88 | 216 | 189 | 26 | 44 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 19 | 17 | 35 | 23 | 7 | .233 | .295 | .307 | .602 | 85.1 | 84.3 | .287 | 0.6 |
| 1969 | 52 | 137 | 123 | 11 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 26 | 4 | 3 | .203 | .259 | .203 | .463 | 23.5 | 29.7 | .225 | -0.8 |
| 1970 | 47 | 116 | 107 | 5 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 24 | 2 | 1 | .159 | .207 | .168 | .375 | 0.9 | 7.0 | .184 | -1.0 |
| 1971 | 85 | 358 | 329 | 47 | 92 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 33 | 23 | 29 | 17 | 8 | .280 | .328 | .377 | .705 | 100.9 | 100.7 | .327 | 1.4 |
| 1972 | 145 | 580 | 499 | 68 | 113 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 67 | 81 | 51 | 17 | .226 | .324 | .283 | .607 | 90.5 | 84.8 | .299 | 1.6 |
| 1973 | 142 | 624 | 576 | 71 | 165 | 24 | 4 | 7 | 48 | 34 | 78 | 43 | 16 | .286 | .325 | .378 | .703 | 98.8 | 100.2 | .324 | 2.3 |
| 1974 | 121 | 526 | 474 | 71 | 112 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 42 | 34 | 72 | 25 | 13 | .236 | .291 | .287 | .578 | 68.9 | 68.4 | .277 | 0.1 |
| 1975 | 28 | 92 | 80 | 9 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 0 | .213 | .289 | .300 | .589 | 65.5 | 67.7 | .277 | 0.0 |
| 1976 | 78 | 171 | 153 | 24 | 36 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 14 | 26 | 15 | 5 | .235 | .298 | .307 | .605 | 79.6 | 78.4 | .291 | 0.0 |
| 1977 | 27 | 55 | 48 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 3 | .188 | .291 | .292 | .583 | 64.7 | 60.4 | .278 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973-04-17 | TEX @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| 1968-09-13 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1974-05-05 | TEX @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1971-09-21 | CLE @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 1974-08-11 | DET @ TEX Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.