Rocky Nelson
St. Louis Cardinals 1949–1950; Chicago White Sox 1951; Pittsburgh Pirates 1951; St. Louis Cardinals 1951; Brooklyn Dodgers 1952; Cleveland Indians 1954; Brooklyn Dodgers 1956; St. Louis Cardinals 1956; Pittsburgh Pirates 1959–1961
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 82 | 260 | 244 | 28 | 54 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 32 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 0 | .221 | .258 | .336 | .594 | 48.9 | 56.4 | .270 | -1.4 |
| 1950 | 76 | 265 | 235 | 27 | 58 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 26 | 9 | 4 | 0 | .247 | .324 | .336 | .661 | 71.3 | 71.7 | .307 | -0.7 |
| 1951 | 86 | 232 | 218 | 32 | 56 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 1 | .257 | .296 | .344 | .640 | 61.9 | 67.0 | .292 | -0.7 |
| 1952 | 37 | 46 | 39 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .256 | .370 | .282 | .652 | 91.1 | 83.1 | .322 | 0.1 |
| 1954 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -137.7 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1956 | 69 | 164 | 152 | 13 | 33 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 23 | 10 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .217 | .262 | .401 | .664 | 66.0 | 73.4 | .286 | -0.5 |
| 1959 | 98 | 204 | 175 | 31 | 51 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 32 | 23 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .291 | .379 | .457 | .836 | 124.9 | 124.5 | .370 | 0.8 |
| 1960 | 93 | 234 | 200 | 34 | 60 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 35 | 24 | 15 | 1 | 2 | .300 | .382 | .470 | .852 | 132.7 | 133.1 | .376 | 1.1 |
| 1961 | 75 | 146 | 127 | 15 | 25 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .197 | .301 | .370 | .671 | 78.5 | 78.5 | .302 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959-08-24 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1960-07-05 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1951-06-04 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1961-05-12 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1956-06-17 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-04-19 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-21 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-22 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-23 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-24 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.