Scott Nielsen
New York Yankees 1986; Chicago White Sox 1987; New York Yankees 1988–1989
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.6 |
| 1987 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.5 |
| 1989 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 66 | 25 | 12 | 20 | 12 | 56.0 | 4.02 | 1.393 | 3.21 | 5.61 | 136.4 | 102.4 | 0.6 |
| 1987 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 83 | 46 | 25 | 23 | 9 | 66.3 | 6.24 | 1.628 | 3.12 | 5.12 | 112.5 | 72.9 | -0.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 19.7 | 6.86 | 2.034 | 1.83 | 7.70 | 194.8 | 57.6 | -0.5 |
| 1989 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 13.50 | 4.500 | 0.00 | 7.35 | 189.5 | 28.7 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989-06-11 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986-07-07 | NYY @ TEX Gameday | 7.0 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| 1986-07-12 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 1986-10-05 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1987-07-05 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1987-07-27 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 7.0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 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.