Nelson Dean

HandednessThrows Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in

BornFebruary 18, 1899 · Muskogee, OK, USA

Seasons8 (1925–1932)

Kansas City Monarchs 1925–1926; Birmingham Black Barons 1927; Cleveland Hornets 1927; Birmingham Black Barons 1928; Cleveland Tigers 1928; Memphis Red Sox 1929; Detroit Stars 1930–1931; Cleveland Stars 1932; Kansas City Monarchs 1932

Percentile snapshot

1932 season — qualified pitchers

14.6

18.2

16.1

67.9

25.5

SHO

76.6

70.8

18.2

71.5

60.0

20.4

ERA

4.35

28.5

WHIP

1.433

33.6

K/9

3.75

51.8

FIP

4.13

42.3

FIP-

99.9

40.1

ERA+

94.9

25.5

sWAR

0.6

20.4

of 138 qualified 1932 pitchers (min 18 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

13.1

89.7

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1925	18	58	56	6	11	0	0	0	2	0	0	.196	.196	.196	.393	13.6	5.9	.180	4.4
1926	15	31	24	1	2	2	0	0	3	2	2	.083	.154	.167	.321	-8.5	-17.4	.158	1.3
1927	16	30	28	1	4	0	0	0	1	1	0	.143	.172	.143	.315	-13.4	-14.3	.154	0.0
1928	29	59	52	4	3	0	0	0	1	4	0	.058	.125	.058	.183	-36.1	-48.6	.103	0.8
1929	14	37	36	2	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	.083	.108	.083	.191	-39.7	-49.4	.095	0.4
1930	19	52	48	3	10	0	2	1	4	2	0	.208	.240	.354	.594	56.9	56.2	.267	2.6
1931	11	37	35	5	4	0	0	1	2	2	0	.114	.162	.200	.362	7.1	0.6	.177	2.8
1932	8	25	21	1	7	0	0	0	2	2	0	.333	.391	.333	.725	102.8	97.1	.356	0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1925	18	13	11	3	0	12	1	108	41	35	67	0	134.7	2.74	1.062	4.48	4.82	92.0	191.5	4.4
1926	15	11	7	4	2	6	1	100	36	12	27	4	84.0	3.86	1.333	2.89	4.01	85.6	121.5	1.3
1927	15	12	1	8	1	3	0	93	37	18	28	4	72.7	4.58	1.528	3.47	3.87	97.0	86.9	0.0
1928	27	19	5	15	1	10	1	177	69	23	70	6	143.3	4.33	1.395	4.40	3.84	89.8	98.6	0.8
1929	11	8	1	6	0	5	1	89	35	10	36	8	70.3	4.48	1.408	4.61	4.48	99.2	100.8	0.4
1930	19	13	9	8	0	9	2	130	55	19	74	5	135.3	3.66	1.101	4.92	3.69	80.9	124.6	2.6
1931	11	10	7	3	0	9	1	102	21	17	36	3	91.7	2.06	1.298	3.53	3.68	87.4	204.3	2.8
1932	8	7	3	4	0	6	0	64	29	22	25	1	60.0	4.35	1.433	3.75	4.13	99.9	94.9	0.6

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

130

329

300

RBI

.1467

OBP

.1847

SLG

.1867

OPS

.3714

Pitching

G (P)

124

SHO

792

SO (P)

363

BB allowed

156

ERA

3.670

WHIP

1.2866

K/9

4.13

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1930-06-14	BBB @ DTS Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	1	1	4
1930-06-01	BEG @ DTS Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	2	0	4
1931-07-27	IND @ DTS Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	1	0	4
1930-05-27	MEM @ DTS Gameday	3	0	1	1	0	1	0	3
1932-05-23	WPI @ CLS Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1932-06-06	CLS @ BBS Gameday	9.0	9	2	2	7	12	1
1930-06-22	SLS @ DTS Gameday	9.0	9	3	3	1	10	1
1930-06-01	BEG @ DTS Gameday	9.0	11	9	6	1	7	1
1931-05-24	SLS @ DTS Gameday	9.0	12	7	2	2	7	1
1930-05-24	MEM @ DTS Gameday	8.0	9	5	5	1	6	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.