Nels Potter
St. Louis Cardinals 1936; Philadelphia Athletics 1938–1940; Boston Red Sox 1941; Philadelphia Athletics 1941; St. Louis Browns 1943–1947; Boston Braves 1948; Philadelphia Athletics 1948; St. Louis Browns 1948; Boston Braves 1949
Percentile snapshot
1945 season — qualified pitchers
of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 154 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 1938 | 38 | 41 | 39 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .256 | .275 | .282 | .557 | 35.2 | 39.8 | .259 | -0.7 |
| 1939 | 41 | 76 | 67 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .179 | .236 | .209 | .445 | 12.7 | 14.3 | .217 | -2.0 |
| 1940 | 31 | 80 | 71 | 4 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .254 | .284 | .282 | .565 | 43.1 | 47.1 | .262 | 2.1 |
| 1941 | 20 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .273 | .111 | .384 | 16.2 | 3.5 | .222 | -0.9 |
| 1943 | 33 | 63 | 55 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .145 | .203 | .164 | .367 | -3.8 | 7.1 | .187 | 2.7 |
| 1944 | 32 | 92 | 82 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .159 | .207 | .171 | .378 | -4.5 | 6.6 | .189 | 4.1 |
| 1945 | 32 | 99 | 92 | 3 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .304 | .319 | .326 | .645 | 78.5 | 84.3 | .308 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 23 | 56 | 52 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .286 | .288 | .574 | 50.5 | 57.1 | .275 | 1.6 |
| 1947 | 32 | 42 | 35 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .257 | .381 | .286 | .667 | 92.7 | 83.6 | .337 | 1.2 |
| 1948 | 28 | 40 | 37 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .378 | .395 | .405 | .800 | 117.8 | 116.3 | .372 | 3.0 |
| 1949 | 41 | 25 | 23 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .130 | .200 | .174 | .374 | 0.4 | 4.2 | .185 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.00 | .000 | 0.00 | 3.04 | 76.3 | — | 0.1 |
| 1938 | 35 | 9 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 139 | 80 | 49 | 43 | 15 | 111.3 | 6.47 | 1.689 | 3.48 | 5.47 | 114.1 | 74.1 | -0.7 |
| 1939 | 41 | 25 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 258 | 144 | 88 | 60 | 26 | 196.3 | 6.60 | 1.762 | 2.75 | 5.67 | 122.0 | 70.4 | -2.0 |
| 1940 | 31 | 25 | 9 | 14 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 213 | 99 | 71 | 73 | 18 | 200.7 | 4.44 | 1.415 | 3.27 | 4.44 | 101.2 | 98.8 | 2.1 |
| 1941 | 20 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 56 | 34 | 32 | 13 | 3 | 43.3 | 7.06 | 2.031 | 2.70 | 5.28 | 127.0 | 58.8 | -0.9 |
| 1943 | 33 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 146 | 52 | 54 | 80 | 11 | 168.3 | 2.78 | 1.188 | 4.28 | 3.26 | 97.6 | 120.2 | 2.7 |
| 1944 | 32 | 29 | 19 | 7 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 211 | 73 | 70 | 91 | 6 | 232.0 | 2.83 | 1.211 | 3.53 | 3.02 | 84.8 | 125.7 | 4.1 |
| 1945 | 32 | 32 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 21 | 3 | 212 | 70 | 68 | 129 | 10 | 255.3 | 2.47 | 1.097 | 4.55 | 2.75 | 79.1 | 140.9 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 23 | 19 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 152 | 60 | 59 | 72 | 9 | 145.0 | 3.72 | 1.455 | 4.47 | 3.54 | 96.8 | 98.4 | 1.6 |
| 1947 | 32 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 130 | 55 | 44 | 65 | 13 | 122.7 | 4.04 | 1.418 | 4.77 | 3.87 | 100.6 | 95.3 | 1.2 |
| 1948 | 28 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 105 | 36 | 17 | 64 | 6 | 113.3 | 2.86 | 1.076 | 5.08 | 2.67 | 66.5 | 139.2 | 3.0 |
| 1949 | 41 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 99 | 45 | 30 | 57 | 6 | 96.7 | 4.19 | 1.334 | 5.31 | 3.12 | 82.0 | 90.8 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-07-18 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1945-07-13 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1945-08-01 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1948-08-14 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1938-08-30 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-09-19 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 1 |
| 1948-08-10 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 8.0 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 1945-05-02 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 12.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 1949-06-08 | CIN @ ATL Gameday | 9.1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 1944-08-06 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 7.2 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 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.