Nick Etten

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 198 lb

BornSeptember 19, 1913 · Spring Grove, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1938

Final gameMay 9, 1947

Seasons9 (1938–1947)

Philadelphia Athletics 1938–1939; Philadelphia Phillies 1941–1942; New York Yankees 1943–1946; Philadelphia Phillies 1947

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified batters

152

89.2

663

90.1

565

82.9

75.7

161

84.7

62.2

46.8

RBI

111

98.2

93.7

60.4

20.7

21.6

.285

62.2

OBP

.387

84.7

SLG

.437

80.2

OPS

.824

83.8

wRC+

140.3

87.4

OPS+

135.3

86.5

wOBA

.395

84.7

sWAR

4.0

84.7

of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

127.7

88.7

OPS+

125.8

86.6

sWAR

17.6

92.5

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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
1938	22	90	81	6	21	6	2	0	11	9	7	1	0	.259	.333	.383	.716	78.4	78.9	.332	-0.1
1939	43	174	155	20	39	11	2	3	29	16	11	0	0	.252	.322	.406	.728	82.5	84.4	.333	-0.1
1941	151	627	540	78	168	27	4	14	79	82	33	9	0	.311	.405	.454	.859	146.0	142.5	.403	4.3
1942	139	531	459	37	121	21	3	8	41	67	26	3	0	.264	.357	.375	.732	119.9	116.6	.353	1.7
1943	154	665	583	78	158	35	5	14	107	76	31	3	7	.271	.355	.420	.775	129.0	128.0	.369	3.0
1944	154	680	573	88	168	25	4	22	91	97	29	4	2	.293	.399	.466	.865	148.9	144.3	.408	4.9
1945	152	663	565	77	161	24	4	18	111	90	23	2	3	.285	.387	.437	.824	140.3	135.3	.395	4.0
1946	108	364	323	37	75	14	1	9	49	38	35	0	1	.232	.315	.365	.680	88.3	89.8	.321	-0.1
1947	14	46	41	5	10	4	0	1	8	5	4	0	0	.244	.326	.415	.741	96.2	97.8	.340	0.0

Career totals

937

3,840

3,320

426

921

167

RBI

526

480

199

.2774

OBP

.3707

274th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4232

OPS

.7939

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	TB
1943-06-06	BAL @ NYY Gameday	4	2	4	2	0	1	4	9
1946-05-20	NYY @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	9
1944-05-30	NYY @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	1	1	8
1944-09-03	MIN @ NYY Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	4	8
1943-08-01	DET @ NYY Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-04-18	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-19	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-20	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-23	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-24	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.