MLB / Players

Wayne Nordhagen

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 205 lb

BornJuly 4, 1948 · Thief River Falls, MN, USA

MLB debutJuly 16, 1976

Final gameMay 30, 1983

Seasons8 (1976–1983)

Chicago White Sox 1976–1981; Pittsburgh Pirates 1982; Toronto Blue Jays 1982; Chicago Cubs 1983

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

1.6

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
1976	22	61	53	6	10	2	0	0	5	4	12	0	0	.189	.233	.226	.460	28.1	34.9	.221	-0.4
1977	52	128	124	16	39	7	3	4	22	2	12	1	0	.315	.323	.516	.839	123.8	124.6	.366	0.6
1978	68	216	206	28	62	16	0	5	35	5	18	0	1	.301	.310	.451	.762	107.7	111.4	.339	0.7
1979	78	207	193	20	54	15	0	7	25	13	22	0	0	.280	.324	.466	.790	108.1	110.7	.347	0.3
1980	123	428	415	45	115	22	4	15	59	10	45	0	1	.277	.294	.458	.752	99.9	103.9	.331	0.6
1981	65	222	208	19	64	8	1	6	33	10	25	0	1	.308	.338	.442	.780	126.6	126.4	.355	1.1
1982	73	201	189	12	52	6	0	1	22	10	23	0	2	.275	.308	.323	.631	64.9	68.7	.287	-0.9
1983	21	37	35	1	5	1	0	1	4	0	5	0	0	.143	.162	.257	.419	-2.2	12.5	.189	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1979	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	2	0	2.0	9.00	1.500	9.00	2.27	53.4	47.1	0.3

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

502

1,500

1,423

147

401

RBI

205

162

.2818

OBP

.3057

SLG

.4294

OPS

.7351

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

9.000

WHIP

1.5000

K/9

9.00

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1980-04-11	BAL @ CWS Gameday	3	1	3	1	1	2	0	8
1977-08-25	CWS @ BAL Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	4	0	8
1979-09-28	SEA @ CWS Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	2	1	8
1980-08-03	KC @ CWS Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	2	0	8
1977-09-18	LAA @ CWS Gameday	4	2	2	1	1	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1979-05-27	LAA @ CWS Gameday	1.0	2	2	2	0	2	0
1979-06-04	MIL @ CWS Gameday	1.0	0	0	0	1	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.