Rob Nelson
Oakland Athletics 1986–1987; San Diego Padres 1987–1990
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .300 | .333 | .633 | 80.8 | 78.1 | .292 | 0.0 |
| 1987 | 17 | 37 | 35 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .167 | .171 | .338 | -12.5 | -8.0 | .156 | -0.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | 23 | 21 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .190 | .261 | .333 | .594 | 72.5 | 71.6 | .279 | 0.0 |
| 1989 | 42 | 102 | 82 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 29 | 1 | 3 | .195 | .353 | .329 | .682 | 107.6 | 97.2 | .332 | 0.1 |
| 1990 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.1 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989-06-14 | CIN @ SD Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 1989-05-17 | SD @ WSH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1989-07-09 | SD @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 1988-09-27 | LAD @ SD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1988-09-25 | HOU @ SD Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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.