MLB / Players

Nelson Figueroa

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb
BornMay 18, 1974 · Brooklyn, NY, USA
MLB debutJune 3, 2000
Final gameMay 9, 2011
Seasons9 (2000–2011)

Arizona Diamondbacks 2000; Philadelphia Phillies 2001; Milwaukee Brewers 2002; Pittsburgh Pirates 2003–2004; New York Mets 2008–2009; Houston Astros 2010; Philadelphia Phillies 2010; Houston Astros 2011

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
2.7
73

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
20003431100000100.333.333.333.66766.968.5.301-0.3
200119262446100111100.250.280.292.57248.450.3.2591.4
20023020150200031600.133.188.133.321-21.4-12.9.160-0.1
200312770000000400.000.000.000.000-127.1-100.0.0000.7
200410770100010200.143.143.143.286-41.1-24.9.129-0.2
20081615120100002600.083.214.083.298-12.5-16.3.1700.2
20091625221301031800.136.174.227.401-4.36.6.1830.7
20103122171410000300.235.235.294.52934.342.4.2361.8
201181090200000200.222.222.222.44412.124.0.202-1.4

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
20003301000171357415.77.471.4044.026.44136.963.0-0.3
200119134500095393761889.03.941.4836.174.29100.3108.41.4
2002301117000965237511893.05.031.4304.945.62137.781.1-0.1
20031232100028131323835.33.311.1605.865.89138.2128.70.7
20041030300032181110428.35.721.5183.185.25123.474.4-0.2
20081663300048232636345.34.571.6327.154.23100.891.90.2
200916103801180322459870.34.091.4797.554.27104.499.80.7
2010311174100843434731093.03.291.2697.064.10102.6121.41.8
2011850300045281617329.08.692.1035.284.82127.843.4-1.4

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

G
145
PA
136
AB
116
R
7
H
20
2B
2
3B
1
HR
0
RBI
8
BB
5
SO
43
SB
0
BA
.1724
OBP
.2066
SLG
.2069
OPS
.4135

Pitching

G (P)
145
GS
65
W
20
L
35
SV
1
CG
1
SHO
1
IP
499
SO (P)
337
BB allowed
203
ERA
4.545
WHIP
1.4589
K/9
6.08

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
2001-07-24WSH @ PHI Gameday323000003
2010-04-14WSH @ PHI Gameday212100003
2009-08-05STL @ NYM Gameday111010213
2011-04-06HOU @ CIN Gameday302000002
2001-08-10LAD @ PHI Gameday211100002

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
2009-08-30NYM @ CHC Gameday7.06112100
2009-09-05CHC @ NYM Gameday6.0744282
2010-10-03CHC @ HOU Gameday6.0600280
2002-09-04MIL @ CHC Gameday5.2633580
2009-10-04HOU @ NYM Gameday9.0400070

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.