Nelson Norman
Texas Rangers 1978–1981; Pittsburgh Pirates 1982; Montreal Expos 1987
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 23 | 35 | 34 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .265 | .265 | .324 | .588 | 59.3 | 65.8 | .267 | 0.1 |
| 1979 | 147 | 383 | 343 | 36 | 76 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 19 | 41 | 4 | 1 | .222 | .260 | .265 | .526 | 42.2 | 43.8 | .244 | -0.6 |
| 1980 | 17 | 34 | 32 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .219 | .242 | .219 | .461 | 25.3 | 29.3 | .218 | -0.1 |
| 1981 | 7 | 15 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .267 | .308 | .574 | 62.3 | 69.0 | .262 | 0.0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -129.1 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1987 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.2 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-07-13 | TEX @ KC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1979-05-04 | CWS @ TEX Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1979-09-25 | ATH @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1979-07-31 | DET @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1978-09-23 | SEA @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
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.