Randy Niemann
Houston Astros 1979–1980; Pittsburgh Pirates 1982–1983; Chicago White Sox 1984; New York Mets 1985–1986; Minnesota Twins 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 26 | 17 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .188 | .133 | .321 | -11.1 | -7.9 | .163 | 0.5 |
| 1980 | 22 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 94.1 | 94.3 | .311 | -0.5 |
| 1982 | 20 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 511.9 | 454.6 | .933 | -0.1 |
| 1983 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -129.3 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.2 |
| 1985 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.2 |
| 1986 | 31 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .429 | .333 | .762 | 131.3 | 117.8 | .372 | 0.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 68 | 28 | 22 | 24 | 1 | 67.0 | 3.76 | 1.343 | 3.22 | 3.20 | 90.6 | 93.9 | 0.5 |
| 1980 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 20 | 12 | 18 | 2 | 33.0 | 5.45 | 1.576 | 4.91 | 3.53 | 105.3 | 61.5 | -0.5 |
| 1982 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 20 | 17 | 26 | 1 | 35.3 | 5.09 | 1.443 | 6.62 | 3.26 | 87.4 | 73.1 | -0.1 |
| 1983 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 13.7 | 9.22 | 1.976 | 5.27 | 5.16 | 139.4 | 40.1 | -0.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5.3 | 1.69 | 1.875 | 8.44 | 3.68 | 89.5 | 243.9 | 0.2 |
| 1985 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4.7 | 0.00 | 1.071 | 3.86 | 1.76 | 50.6 | — | 0.2 |
| 1986 | 31 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 15 | 12 | 18 | 2 | 35.7 | 3.79 | 1.570 | 4.54 | 3.47 | 96.7 | 94.9 | 0.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 5.3 | 8.44 | 1.875 | 1.69 | 7.56 | 164.9 | 54.4 | -0.2 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-06-04 | PHI @ HOU Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1979-06-18 | NYM @ HOU Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1980-07-02 | HOU @ ATL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1980-09-23 | HOU @ SD Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1982-08-23 | SD @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-05-29 | CIN @ HOU Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 1979-06-04 | PHI @ HOU Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1986-05-18 | NYM @ LAD Gameday | 3.2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1980-09-06 | STL @ HOU Gameday | 3.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982-08-23 | SD @ PIT Gameday | 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 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.