Mel Nelson
St. Louis Cardinals 1960; Los Angeles Angels 1963; Minnesota Twins 1965; Minnesota Twins 1967; St. Louis Cardinals 1968–1969
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 181.4 | 167.0 | .457 | 0.2 |
| 1963 | 39 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .182 | -65.1 | -47.3 | .083 | -0.8 |
| 1965 | 28 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .222 | -59.0 | -37.3 | .102 | 0.1 |
| 1967 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 1968 | 18 | 13 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .231 | .167 | .397 | 20.0 | 22.8 | .203 | 0.6 |
| 1969 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 8.0 | 3.38 | 1.125 | 7.88 | 3.28 | 81.5 | 119.0 | 0.2 |
| 1963 | 36 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 31 | 32 | 41 | 7 | 52.7 | 5.30 | 1.652 | 7.01 | 4.57 | 132.8 | 65.0 | -0.8 |
| 1965 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 25 | 23 | 31 | 7 | 54.7 | 4.12 | 1.463 | 5.10 | 4.30 | 120.8 | 86.5 | 0.1 |
| 1967 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.3 | 54.00 | 9.000 | 0.00 | 41.42 | 1206.6 | 6.4 | -0.2 |
| 1968 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 49 | 17 | 9 | 16 | 3 | 52.7 | 2.91 | 1.101 | 2.73 | 3.19 | 109.6 | 100.3 | 0.6 |
| 1969 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5.3 | 11.81 | 3.000 | 5.06 | 3.22 | 89.8 | 30.3 | -0.5 |
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960-10-02 | STL @ SF Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1968-07-11 | HOU @ STL Gameday | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1963-05-12 | LAA @ CWS Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1965-08-03 | TEX @ MIN Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1968-08-07 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965-06-11 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 7.2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
| 1963-05-17 | LAA @ NYY Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
| 1960-10-02 | STL @ SF Gameday | 7.0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 1963-06-05 | CWS @ LAA Gameday | 5.0 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| 1965-08-03 | TEX @ MIN Gameday | 4.2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 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.