Gene Nelson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 172 lb

BornDecember 3, 1960 · Tampa, FL, USA

MLB debutMay 4, 1981

Final gameSeptember 29, 1993

Seasons13 (1981–1993)

New York Yankees 1981; Seattle Mariners 1982–1983; Chicago White Sox 1984–1986; Oakland Athletics 1987–1992; California Angels 1993; Texas Rangers 1993

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

ERA+

98.2

30.6

sWAR

9.7

86.6

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	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1981	8	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1982	22	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
1983	10	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.0
1984	20	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
1985	47	1	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.4	-100.0	.000	1.4
1986	54	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.7
1987	55	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
1988	57	0	0	1	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.1
1989	51	0	0	1	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
1990	51	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.6
1991	44	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.2
1992	29	0	0	1	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.1
1993	52	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1981	8	7	3	1	0	0	0	40	21	23	16	5	39.3	4.81	1.602	3.66	5.21	145.2	74.7	-0.2
1982	22	19	6	9	0	2	1	133	63	60	71	16	122.7	4.62	1.573	5.21	4.74	113.0	90.8	0.6
1983	10	5	0	3	0	1	0	38	28	21	11	6	32.0	7.88	1.844	3.09	6.64	157.9	53.4	-1.0
1984	20	9	3	5	1	2	0	72	37	17	36	9	74.7	4.46	1.192	4.34	4.07	99.0	92.3	0.4
1985	46	18	10	10	2	1	0	144	69	67	101	23	145.7	4.26	1.449	6.24	4.93	115.7	100.0	1.4
1986	54	1	6	6	6	0	0	118	49	41	70	7	114.7	3.85	1.387	5.49	3.52	82.2	111.2	1.7
1987	54	6	6	5	3	0	0	120	54	35	94	12	123.7	3.93	1.253	6.84	3.59	85.2	107.1	1.6
1988	54	1	9	6	3	0	0	93	38	38	67	9	111.7	3.06	1.173	5.40	3.77	99.0	124.3	2.1
1989	50	0	3	5	3	0	0	60	29	30	70	5	80.0	3.26	1.125	7.88	3.11	83.9	113.8	1.2
1990	51	0	3	3	5	0	0	55	13	17	38	5	74.7	1.57	.964	4.58	3.46	92.8	238.2	2.6
1991	44	0	1	5	0	0	0	60	37	23	23	12	48.7	6.84	1.705	4.25	6.77	174.6	56.7	-1.2
1992	28	2	3	1	0	0	0	68	37	22	23	5	51.7	6.45	1.742	4.01	4.44	117.5	58.6	-1.1
1993	52	0	0	5	5	0	0	60	21	24	35	3	60.7	3.12	1.385	5.19	3.78	84.9	142.4	1.5

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

500

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0000

Pitching

G (P)

493

461st-most career G (P)

SHO

1,080

SO (P)

655

BB allowed

418

ERA

4.133

WHIP

1.3694

K/9

5.46

498th-highest career K/9

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
1985-07-07	CWS @ CLE Gameday	1	0
1987-07-11	MIL @ ATH Gameday	0	0
1988-04-16	CWS @ ATH Gameday	0	0
1988-06-08	ATH @ KC Gameday	0	0
1988-07-03	ATH @ TOR Gameday	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1982-06-01	MIL @ SEA Gameday	8.0	7	2	2	1	9	1
1984-07-12	CWS @ BAL Gameday	8.0	6	3	3	3	7	1
1982-04-24	MIN @ SEA Gameday	6.1	8	2	2	2	7	1
1987-05-20	NYY @ ATH Gameday	5.2	3	0	0	3	7	0
1985-07-03	SEA @ CWS Gameday	5.0	5	1	1	1	7	0

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.