Nelson King
Pittsburgh Pirates 1954–1957
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 1955 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -124.0 | -100.0 | .000 | 1.0 |
| 1956 | 38 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.5 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.9 |
| 1957 | 36 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -124.9 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7.0 | 5.14 | 1.571 | 3.86 | 1.99 | 48.3 | 80.1 | 0.0 |
| 1955 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 18 | 14 | 21 | 2 | 54.3 | 2.98 | 1.362 | 3.48 | 2.90 | 71.7 | 135.4 | 1.0 |
| 1956 | 38 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 21 | 19 | 25 | 8 | 60.0 | 3.15 | 1.217 | 3.75 | 4.13 | 111.5 | 117.7 | 0.9 |
| 1957 | 36 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 26 | 16 | 23 | 7 | 52.0 | 4.50 | 1.635 | 3.98 | 4.42 | 117.6 | 83.4 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-06-03 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-04-15 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-04-20 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-04-29 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-05-02 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-04-24 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 7.1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1955-05-05 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 6.0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1956-04-29 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 5.2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1956-04-25 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1955-04-30 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 7.1 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 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.