Otis Nixon

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornJanuary 9, 1959 · Evergreen, NC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1983

Final gameOctober 3, 1999

Seasons17 (1983–1999)

New York Yankees 1983; Cleveland Indians 1984–1987; Montreal Expos 1988–1990; Atlanta Braves 1991–1993; Boston Red Sox 1994; Texas Rangers 1995; Toronto Blue Jays 1996; Los Angeles Dodgers 1997; Toronto Blue Jays 1997; Minnesota Twins 1998; Atlanta Braves 1999

Percentile snapshot

1997 season — qualified batters

145

655

73.4

576

74.8

47.6

153

48.3

4.9

44.8

0.7

RBI

60.1

73.4

97.9

9.1

.266

OBP

.337

34.3

SLG

.318

0.7

OPS

.655

5.6

wRC+

78.6

6.3

OPS+

75.0

4.2

wOBA

.305

6.3

sWAR

0.7

12.6

of 144 qualified 1997 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

81.7

12.2

OPS+

77.3

7.2

sWAR

5.8

81.1

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
1983	13	15	14	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	5	2	0	.143	.200	.143	.343	-3.1	-1.6	.171	-0.2
1984	49	103	91	16	14	0	0	0	1	8	11	12	6	.154	.220	.154	.374	2.0	5.1	.187	-1.1
1985	104	174	162	34	38	4	0	3	9	8	27	20	11	.235	.271	.315	.585	58.8	60.4	.266	-0.6
1986	105	110	95	33	25	4	1	0	8	13	12	23	6	.263	.352	.326	.678	93.2	87.0	.319	-0.2
1987	19	20	17	2	1	0	0	0	1	3	4	2	3	.059	.200	.059	.259	-18.2	-26.7	.154	-0.3
1988	90	305	271	47	66	8	2	0	15	28	42	46	13	.244	.312	.288	.600	74.9	71.3	.290	0.1
1989	126	293	258	41	56	7	2	0	21	33	36	37	12	.217	.306	.260	.566	68.7	63.6	.277	0.0
1990	119	263	231	46	58	6	2	1	20	28	33	50	13	.251	.331	.307	.638	86.7	80.7	.306	0.5
1991	124	460	401	81	119	10	1	0	26	47	40	72	21	.297	.371	.327	.698	99.3	94.1	.331	0.9
1992	120	502	456	79	134	14	2	2	22	39	54	41	18	.294	.348	.346	.695	98.6	94.1	.328	1.7
1993	134	532	461	77	124	12	3	1	24	61	63	47	13	.269	.351	.315	.666	86.8	81.5	.315	1.1
1994	103	461	398	60	109	15	1	0	25	55	65	42	10	.274	.360	.317	.677	80.5	74.6	.319	0.6
1995	139	656	589	87	174	21	2	0	45	58	85	50	21	.295	.357	.338	.695	84.2	80.8	.323	1.2
1996	125	575	496	87	142	15	1	1	29	71	68	54	13	.286	.377	.327	.703	88.7	81.4	.331	1.3
1997	145	655	576	84	153	18	3	2	44	65	78	59	12	.266	.337	.318	.655	78.6	75.0	.305	0.7
1998	110	500	448	71	133	6	6	1	20	44	56	37	7	.297	.361	.344	.705	88.3	84.3	.324	1.1
1999	84	176	151	31	31	2	1	0	8	23	15	26	7	.205	.309	.232	.540	45.1	41.0	.263	-0.9

Career totals

1,709

5,800

5,115

878

1,379

142

RBI

318

585

694

620

16th-most career SB

.2696

OBP

.3435

SLG

.3144

OPS

.6579

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
1990-08-14	WSH @ SD Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	1	4	1	7
1995-05-26	TEX @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	0	0	0	6
1998-09-05	MIN @ TEX Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	0	0	0	6
1985-07-20	CLE @ CWS Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	1	0	6
1988-07-03	ATL @ WSH Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	0	0	0	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.