MLB / Players

Russ Nagelson

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 205 lb
BornSeptember 19, 1944 · Cincinnati, OH, USA
MLB debutSeptember 11, 1968
Final gameOctober 1, 1970
Seasons3 (1968–1970)

Cleveland Indians 1968–1970; Detroit Tigers 1970

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
-0.1
29.9

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
19685530100002200.333.600.333.933240.0191.7.4850.1
19691220171600003300.353.450.353.803127.2125.2.3740.1
197045655689101481500.161.266.232.49839.437.3.248-0.3

Career totals

G
62
PA
90
AB
76
R
9
H
16
2B
1
3B
0
HR
1
RBI
4
BB
13
SO
20
SB
0
BA
.2105
OBP
.3258
SLG
.2632
OPS
.5890

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
1970-04-12CLE @ NYY Gameday411001104
1969-09-05NYY @ CLE Gameday402000002
1969-09-12CLE @ BAL Gameday212000012
1970-04-11CLE @ NYY Gameday321100012
1970-05-03CLE @ KC Gameday101000101

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.