MLB / Players

Ray Nelson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 9 in · 150 lb
BornAugust 4, 1875 · Holyoke, MA, USA
MLB debutMay 6, 1901
Final gameAugust 16, 1901
Seasons1 (1901–1901)

New York Giants 1901

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
-0.4
16.4

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19013914613012262007103030.200.262.215.47845.739.5.240-0.4

Career totals

G
39
PA
146
AB
130
R
12
H
26
2B
2
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
7
BB
10
SO
30
SB
3
BA
.2000
OBP
.2624
SLG
.2154
OPS
.4778

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1901-06-28CIN @ SF Gameday413000103
1901-06-25STL @ SF Gameday312000012
1901-06-26CIN @ SF Gameday212000002
1901-05-06PHI @ SF Gameday411100002
1901-07-26ATL @ SF Gameday311100002

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1901-04-19SF @ ATL Gameday0.0000000
1901-04-26LAD @ SF Gameday0.0000000
1901-04-27SF @ PHI Gameday0.0000000
1901-04-29SF @ PHI Gameday0.0000000
1901-04-30SF @ PHI Gameday0.0000000

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.