Nate Colbert

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 205 lb

BornApril 9, 1946 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1966

Final gameOctober 1, 1976

Seasons10 (1966–1976)

Houston Astros 1966; Houston Astros 1968; San Diego Padres 1969–1974; Detroit Tigers 1975; Montreal Expos 1975–1976; Oakland Athletics 1976

Percentile snapshot

1973 season — qualified batters

145

32.5

598

36.8

529

37.7

47.4

143

36.8

56.1

21.9

73.7

RBI

47.4

146

0.9

57.9

21.9

.270

OBP

.343

50.9

SLG

.450

71.1

OPS

.793

65.8

wRC+

123.2

69.3

OPS+

124.6

72.8

wOBA

.358

61.4

sWAR

2.4

46.5

of 115 qualified 1973 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

115.3

72.2

OPS+

117.5

75.5

sWAR

11.7

88.5

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1966	19	7	7	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.1	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1968	20	56	53	5	8	1	0	0	4	1	23	1	1	.151	.164	.170	.333	-15.8	0.9	.158	-0.6
1969	139	532	483	64	123	20	9	24	66	45	123	6	4	.255	.322	.482	.804	123.7	125.5	.361	2.1
1970	156	636	572	84	148	17	6	38	86	56	150	3	5	.259	.328	.509	.836	121.0	124.0	.368	2.5
1971	156	639	565	81	149	25	3	27	84	63	119	5	2	.264	.339	.462	.801	131.8	131.2	.364	3.2
1972	151	643	563	87	141	27	2	38	111	70	127	15	6	.250	.333	.508	.841	138.9	142.7	.372	3.7
1973	145	598	529	73	143	25	2	22	80	54	146	9	8	.270	.343	.450	.793	123.2	124.6	.358	2.4
1974	119	437	368	53	76	16	0	14	54	62	108	10	2	.207	.319	.364	.683	94.3	93.8	.322	0.2
1975	83	260	237	26	37	8	3	8	29	22	83	0	2	.156	.231	.316	.547	41.7	49.1	.252	-1.5
1976	16	55	45	5	8	2	0	2	6	10	19	3	1	.178	.327	.356	.683	91.1	95.2	.318	0.0

Career totals

1,004

3,863

3,422

481

833

141

173

488th-most career HR

RBI

520

383

902

.2434

OBP

.3216

SLG

.4509

474th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7725

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1972-08-01	SD @ ATL Gameday	4	4	3	0	3	8	1	12
1970-09-26	SD @ SF Gameday	4	2	4	1	2	2	0	11
1972-08-01	SD @ ATL Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	5	0	10
1969-06-01	SD @ WSH Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	2	0	9
1970-05-23	SD @ SF Gameday	8	2	5	0	1	4	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1967-05-30	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967-07-22	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967-07-23	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967-09-29	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967-09-30	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.

Honors

3× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.