Joe Nelson
Atlanta Braves 2001; Boston Red Sox 2004; Kansas City Royals 2006; Florida Marlins 2008; Tampa Bay Rays 2009; Boston Red Sox 2010
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.7 |
| 2004 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
| 2006 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.6 |
| 2008 | 59 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -132.1 | -100.0 | .000 | 2.0 |
| 2009 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.5 |
| 2010 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2.0 | 36.00 | 4.500 | 0.00 | 14.01 | 320.2 | 12.1 | -0.7 |
| 2004 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2.7 | 16.88 | 2.625 | 16.88 | 5.03 | 105.4 | 28.3 | -0.3 |
| 2006 | 43 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 22 | 24 | 44 | 5 | 44.7 | 4.43 | 1.366 | 8.87 | 4.35 | 93.5 | 105.0 | 0.6 |
| 2008 | 59 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 12 | 22 | 60 | 5 | 54.0 | 2.00 | 1.185 | 10.00 | 3.42 | 77.9 | 219.6 | 2.0 |
| 2009 | 42 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 18 | 27 | 36 | 7 | 40.3 | 4.02 | 1.463 | 8.03 | 5.70 | 132.1 | 107.4 | 0.5 |
| 2010 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 8.3 | 9.72 | 2.400 | 9.72 | 6.17 | 143.6 | 44.2 | -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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-06-19 | MIA @ ATL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006-07-25 | BAL @ KC Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008-05-26 | MIA @ NYM Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008-05-27 | MIA @ NYM Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008-05-30 | MIA @ PHI Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-10-01 | KC @ DET Gameday | 2.2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 2008-06-08 | CIN @ MIA Gameday | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 2006-05-27 | KC @ NYY Gameday | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2008-05-27 | MIA @ NYM Gameday | 2.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2008-07-10 | MIA @ LAD Gameday | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 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.