Red Nelson
St. Louis Browns 1910–1911; Philadelphia Phillies 1912; St. Louis Browns 1912; Cincinnati Reds 1913; Philadelphia Phillies 1913
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | 7 | 24 | 23 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .261 | .292 | .435 | .726 | 122.3 | 130.2 | .344 | 0.7 |
| 1911 | 16 | 29 | 27 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .143 | .148 | .291 | -21.2 | -18.5 | .144 | -1.1 |
| 1912 | 12 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .267 | .154 | .421 | 24.1 | 25.9 | .230 | -0.4 |
| 1913 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 83.0 | 87.2 | .314 | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 57 | 17 | 14 | 30 | 0 | 60.0 | 2.55 | 1.183 | 4.50 | 2.15 | 87.8 | 96.0 | 0.7 |
| 1911 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 103 | 47 | 44 | 24 | 1 | 81.0 | 5.22 | 1.815 | 2.67 | 4.37 | 131.9 | 63.4 | -1.1 |
| 1912 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 46 | 22 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 37.3 | 5.30 | 1.741 | 2.65 | 4.64 | 134.9 | 64.7 | -0.4 |
| 1913 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 10.0 | 8.10 | 2.300 | 2.70 | 6.02 | 185.3 | 40.7 | -0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910-10-02 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1911-09-28 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1910-09-09 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1910-09-13 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1910-09-18 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910-09-09 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 |
| 1910-09-13 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1910-10-02 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 20 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 1910-10-09 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1911-08-17 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 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.