Sam Nahem
Brooklyn Dodgers 1938; St. Louis Cardinals 1941; Philadelphia Phillies 1942; Philadelphia Phillies 1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .400 | .400 | .400 | .800 | 119.0 | 118.3 | .370 | 0.2 |
| 1941 | 26 | 29 | 23 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .174 | .174 | .174 | .348 | -21.4 | -3.7 | .163 | 1.5 |
| 1942 | 35 | 21 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .143 | .100 | .243 | -42.4 | -27.6 | .126 | -1.0 |
| 1948 | 28 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .154 | .154 | .308 | -32.7 | -15.8 | .142 | -1.6 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9.0 | 3.00 | 1.111 | 2.00 | 3.62 | 93.7 | 129.0 | 0.2 |
| 1941 | 26 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 76 | 27 | 38 | 31 | 2 | 81.7 | 2.98 | 1.396 | 3.42 | 3.59 | 95.1 | 127.0 | 1.5 |
| 1942 | 35 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 41 | 40 | 38 | 2 | 74.7 | 4.94 | 1.500 | 4.58 | 3.30 | 101.7 | 65.7 | -1.0 |
| 1948 | 28 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 46 | 45 | 30 | 4 | 59.0 | 7.02 | 1.915 | 4.58 | 4.87 | 125.2 | 55.5 | -1.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-10-02 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1948-05-31 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1941-04-23 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1941-05-11 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1941-05-24 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-05-30 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 5.0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| 1941-05-11 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 7.0 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 1941-06-30 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 5.2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1942-07-28 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 5.1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1948-05-23 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 5.0 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 |
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.