Melvin Nieves
Atlanta Braves 1992; San Diego Padres 1993–1995; Detroit Tigers 1996–1997; Cincinnati Reds 1998
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 12 | 21 | 19 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .211 | .286 | .263 | .549 | 54.2 | 53.8 | .267 | -0.1 |
| 1993 | 19 | 51 | 47 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .191 | .255 | .319 | .574 | 51.3 | 52.2 | .264 | -0.2 |
| 1994 | 10 | 22 | 19 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .263 | .364 | .474 | .837 | 124.0 | 119.4 | .375 | 0.1 |
| 1995 | 98 | 262 | 234 | 32 | 48 | 6 | 1 | 14 | 38 | 19 | 88 | 2 | 3 | .205 | .276 | .419 | .695 | 81.8 | 83.7 | .307 | -0.1 |
| 1996 | 120 | 484 | 431 | 71 | 106 | 23 | 4 | 24 | 60 | 44 | 158 | 1 | 2 | .246 | .322 | .485 | .807 | 98.8 | 100.4 | .349 | 0.9 |
| 1997 | 116 | 405 | 359 | 46 | 82 | 18 | 1 | 20 | 64 | 39 | 157 | 1 | 7 | .228 | .311 | .451 | .762 | 92.8 | 96.5 | .330 | 0.4 |
| 1998 | 83 | 147 | 119 | 8 | 30 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 26 | 42 | 0 | 0 | .252 | .381 | .336 | .717 | 98.0 | 90.7 | .338 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-04-06 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 |
| 1996-07-15 | DET @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| 1996-08-20 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 1995-09-21 | SD @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1996-07-28 | DET @ SEA Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
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.