Nolen Richardson
Detroit Tigers 1929; Detroit Tigers 1931–1932; New York Yankees 1935; Cincinnati Reds 1938–1939
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 13 | 24 | 21 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .190 | .261 | .190 | .451 | 17.5 | 17.1 | .226 | -0.1 |
| 1931 | 38 | 158 | 148 | 13 | 40 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | .270 | .299 | .358 | .657 | 66.0 | 69.5 | .302 | -0.1 |
| 1932 | 69 | 169 | 155 | 13 | 34 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 2 | .219 | .262 | .277 | .540 | 38.4 | 40.2 | .253 | -0.6 |
| 1935 | 12 | 49 | 46 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .217 | .265 | .283 | .548 | 44.5 | 46.9 | .259 | -0.1 |
| 1938 | 35 | 106 | 100 | 8 | 29 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .290 | .311 | .330 | .641 | 75.5 | 79.2 | .297 | 0.2 |
| 1939 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.1 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931-09-23 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1931-08-30 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1931-09-15 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1938-09-14 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1935-09-29 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929-04-16 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929-04-17 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929-04-18 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929-04-19 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929-04-20 | DET @ BAL 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.