MLB / Players

Sam Nicholl

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 10 in · 178 lb
BornApril 20, 1869 · Antrim, County Antrim, Ireland
MLB debutOctober 5, 1888
Final gameMay 4, 1890
Seasons2 (1888–1890)

Pittsburg Alleghenys 1888; Columbus Solons 1890

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
-0.7
9.7

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
1888824223100002200.045.125.045.170-13.4-43.9.100-0.3
18901458567900042030.161.190.161.35020.53.0.177-0.5

Career totals

G
22
PA
82
AB
78
R
10
H
10
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
4
BB
4
SO
2
SB
3
BA
.1282
OBP
.1707
SLG
.1282
OPS
.2989

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.