Joe Nolan
New York Mets 1972; Atlanta Braves 1975; Atlanta Braves 1977–1980; Cincinnati Reds 1980–1981; Baltimore Orioles 1982–1985
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .091 | .000 | .091 | -80.9 | -71.6 | .068 | -0.2 |
| 1975 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .400 | .250 | .650 | 100.7 | 81.7 | .341 | 0.0 |
| 1977 | 62 | 96 | 82 | 13 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | .280 | .375 | .427 | .802 | 107.3 | 104.0 | .365 | 0.6 |
| 1978 | 95 | 249 | 213 | 22 | 49 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 34 | 28 | 3 | 2 | .230 | .339 | .347 | .686 | 96.3 | 94.3 | .323 | 1.3 |
| 1979 | 89 | 261 | 230 | 28 | 57 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 27 | 28 | 1 | 3 | .248 | .333 | .365 | .699 | 86.2 | 85.0 | .324 | 1.1 |
| 1980 | 70 | 200 | 176 | 16 | 54 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 26 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .307 | .350 | .403 | .754 | 112.3 | 110.7 | .347 | 1.5 |
| 1981 | 81 | 264 | 236 | 25 | 73 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 26 | 24 | 19 | 1 | 2 | .309 | .371 | .407 | .778 | 119.7 | 119.9 | .358 | 2.3 |
| 1982 | 77 | 242 | 219 | 24 | 51 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 35 | 16 | 35 | 1 | 1 | .233 | .278 | .356 | .634 | 69.7 | 74.2 | .282 | 0.6 |
| 1983 | 73 | 202 | 184 | 25 | 51 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 16 | 31 | 0 | 0 | .277 | .342 | .429 | .771 | 115.7 | 114.0 | .347 | 1.6 |
| 1984 | 35 | 75 | 62 | 2 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .290 | .400 | .387 | .787 | 116.5 | 122.5 | .347 | 0.3 |
| 1985 | 31 | 44 | 38 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .132 | .227 | .184 | .411 | 10.5 | 16.2 | .191 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978-07-28 | WSH @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 1978-09-08 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1979-06-18 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1982-07-03 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1981-05-30 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 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.