Nelson Liriano
Toronto Blue Jays 1987–1989; Minnesota Twins 1990; Toronto Blue Jays 1990; Kansas City Royals 1991; Colorado Rockies 1993–1994; Pittsburgh Pirates 1995–1996; Los Angeles Dodgers 1997; Colorado Rockies 1998
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 37 | 176 | 158 | 29 | 38 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 16 | 22 | 13 | 2 | .241 | .310 | .342 | .652 | 71.9 | 72.7 | .292 | 0.0 |
| 1988 | 99 | 295 | 276 | 36 | 73 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 11 | 40 | 12 | 5 | .264 | .297 | .333 | .630 | 78.2 | 78.8 | .289 | 0.3 |
| 1989 | 132 | 478 | 418 | 51 | 110 | 26 | 3 | 5 | 53 | 43 | 51 | 16 | 7 | .263 | .331 | .376 | .707 | 103.7 | 101.3 | .329 | 2.0 |
| 1990 | 103 | 400 | 355 | 46 | 83 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 28 | 38 | 44 | 8 | 7 | .234 | .308 | .327 | .635 | 77.7 | 75.8 | .299 | 0.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | 23 | 22 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .409 | .409 | .409 | .818 | 131.3 | 127.7 | .375 | 0.2 |
| 1993 | 48 | 175 | 151 | 28 | 46 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 6 | 4 | .305 | .376 | .424 | .800 | 103.7 | 101.8 | .362 | 0.9 |
| 1994 | 87 | 303 | 255 | 39 | 65 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 31 | 42 | 44 | 0 | 2 | .255 | .357 | .396 | .753 | 79.7 | 81.2 | .338 | 0.4 |
| 1995 | 107 | 289 | 259 | 29 | 74 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 38 | 24 | 34 | 2 | 2 | .286 | .347 | .398 | .745 | 94.1 | 94.5 | .334 | 0.9 |
| 1996 | 112 | 234 | 217 | 23 | 58 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 30 | 14 | 22 | 2 | 0 | .267 | .308 | .392 | .699 | 78.0 | 81.2 | .309 | 0.2 |
| 1997 | 76 | 97 | 88 | 10 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .227 | .274 | .330 | .603 | 58.2 | 63.4 | .269 | -0.2 |
| 1998 | 12 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -145.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.5 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990-04-20 | KC @ TOR Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1995-05-18 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1994-07-17 | STL @ COL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1995-08-18 | MIA @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 1989-08-08 | TEX @ TOR Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
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.