Nelson Cruz
Chicago White Sox 1997; Detroit Tigers 1999–2000; Houston Astros 2001–2002; Colorado Rockies 2003
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
| 1999 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 2000 | 27 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -117.0 | -100.0 | .000 | 1.1 |
| 2001 | 66 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | -31.3 | -15.3 | .149 | 1.2 |
| 2002 | 43 | 16 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .071 | .000 | .071 | -98.8 | -79.4 | .053 | 0.5 |
| 2003 | 20 | 15 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .154 | .231 | .385 | -29.1 | -7.2 | .167 | -0.9 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 19 | 9 | 23 | 6 | 26.3 | 6.49 | 1.443 | 7.86 | 5.39 | 121.8 | 68.1 | -0.3 |
| 1999 | 29 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 42 | 23 | 46 | 11 | 66.7 | 5.67 | 1.455 | 6.21 | 5.14 | 106.0 | 85.5 | 0.1 |
| 2000 | 27 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 14 | 13 | 34 | 4 | 41.0 | 3.07 | 1.268 | 7.46 | 4.00 | 83.3 | 156.4 | 1.1 |
| 2001 | 66 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 38 | 24 | 75 | 11 | 82.3 | 4.15 | 1.166 | 8.20 | 4.12 | 89.7 | 110.7 | 1.2 |
| 2002 | 43 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 39 | 29 | 61 | 12 | 78.3 | 4.48 | 1.519 | 7.01 | 4.65 | 109.0 | 95.2 | 0.5 |
| 2003 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 43 | 11 | 38 | 15 | 53.7 | 7.21 | 1.416 | 6.37 | 5.98 | 123.1 | 67.3 | -0.9 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-05-08 | COL @ ATL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2003-04-19 | SD @ COL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001-06-03 | LAD @ HOU Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002-06-14 | TEX @ HOU Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997-09-03 | CWS @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-05-01 | CIN @ COL Gameday | 5.0 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 3 |
| 2002-07-19 | HOU @ CHC Gameday | 5.1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
| 2000-07-08 | DET @ MIL Gameday | 4.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 1999-06-14 | SEA @ DET Gameday | 4.1 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 2003-05-08 | COL @ ATL Gameday | 4.0 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
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.