Russ Nixon
Cleveland Indians 1957–1959; Boston Red Sox 1960; Cleveland Indians 1960; Boston Red Sox 1961–1965; Minnesota Twins 1966–1967; Boston Red Sox 1968
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 62 | 199 | 185 | 15 | 52 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 1 | .281 | .323 | .362 | .685 | 77.9 | 88.8 | .302 | 0.6 |
| 1958 | 113 | 395 | 376 | 42 | 113 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 46 | 13 | 38 | 0 | 3 | .301 | .322 | .439 | .761 | 106.1 | 110.0 | .336 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 82 | 280 | 258 | 23 | 62 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 29 | 15 | 28 | 0 | 0 | .240 | .277 | .314 | .591 | 61.1 | 65.1 | .269 | 0.2 |
| 1960 | 105 | 382 | 354 | 30 | 101 | 22 | 3 | 6 | 39 | 19 | 29 | 0 | 2 | .285 | .324 | .415 | .739 | 91.9 | 96.1 | .329 | 1.7 |
| 1961 | 87 | 262 | 242 | 24 | 70 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 13 | 19 | 0 | 1 | .289 | .327 | .368 | .695 | 81.0 | 83.4 | .315 | 0.8 |
| 1962 | 65 | 160 | 151 | 11 | 42 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .278 | .313 | .371 | .683 | 73.6 | 80.8 | .301 | 0.3 |
| 1963 | 98 | 316 | 287 | 27 | 77 | 18 | 1 | 5 | 30 | 22 | 32 | 0 | 0 | .268 | .327 | .390 | .717 | 94.3 | 96.9 | .319 | 1.5 |
| 1964 | 81 | 182 | 163 | 10 | 38 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 14 | 29 | 0 | 0 | .233 | .297 | .294 | .591 | 53.9 | 60.9 | .268 | 0.0 |
| 1965 | 59 | 147 | 137 | 11 | 37 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 23 | 0 | 0 | .270 | .295 | .321 | .616 | 60.6 | 69.4 | .276 | 0.1 |
| 1966 | 51 | 106 | 96 | 5 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .260 | .314 | .302 | .616 | 66.6 | 75.1 | .275 | 0.2 |
| 1967 | 74 | 193 | 170 | 16 | 40 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 18 | 29 | 0 | 0 | .235 | .304 | .300 | .604 | 69.7 | 74.2 | .280 | 0.6 |
| 1968 | 29 | 92 | 85 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .153 | .217 | .176 | .394 | 3.5 | 17.3 | .191 | -0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958-09-09 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 |
| 1963-05-26 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1958-07-24 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1960-06-23 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1959-08-12 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-09-25 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957-09-26 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958-09-23 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958-09-24 | CLE @ ATH 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.