MLB / Players

Willard Nixon

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornJune 17, 1928 · Taylorsville, GA, USA

MLB debutJuly 7, 1950

Final gameJuly 4, 1958

Seasons9 (1950–1958)

Boston Red Sox 1950–1958

Percentile snapshot

1957 season — qualified pitchers

9.1

50.9

43.6

23.6

63.6

SHO

7.3

207

41.8

58.2

65.5

36.4

96.4

191.0

32.7

ERA

3.68

43.6

WHIP

1.377

21.8

K/9

4.52

FIP

3.07

87.3

FIP-

76.8

90.9

ERA+

108.5

47.3

sWAR

3.1

58.2

of 56 qualified 1957 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

96.8

24.8

sWAR

12.4

89.2

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1950	22	44	36	3	5	0	0	0	2	5	7	.139	.244	.139	.383	-6.9	-3.9	.207	-0.3
1951	34	49	45	7	13	3	0	1	8	3	9	.289	.333	.422	.756	91.0	94.9	.348	1.0
1952	33	57	53	3	11	3	0	0	7	4	8	.208	.263	.264	.527	34.1	42.7	.254	0.0
1953	23	48	42	4	8	1	0	0	3	5	9	.190	.277	.214	.491	28.4	31.1	.246	1.5
1954	31	78	68	6	18	3	0	1	3	8	17	.265	.342	.353	.695	84.1	83.5	.331	2.6
1955	31	81	69	7	18	4	1	0	7	8	20	.261	.338	.348	.685	81.0	79.0	.328	3.1
1956	23	60	54	4	11	1	0	0	5	3	6	.204	.241	.222	.464	7.4	18.1	.222	1.9
1957	32	81	75	7	22	1	0	0	4	6	16	.293	.346	.307	.652	78.2	75.8	.311	3.1
1958	10	17	17	1	5	1	0	0	2	0	5	.294	.294	.353	.647	67.0	72.5	.292	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1950	22	15	8	6	2	2	0	126	68	58	57	8	101.3	6.04	1.816	5.06	4.39	88.6	82.0	-0.3
1951	33	14	7	4	1	2	1	136	68	56	70	12	125.0	4.90	1.536	5.04	4.22	94.1	91.6	1.0
1952	23	13	5	4	0	5	0	115	56	61	50	12	103.7	4.86	1.698	4.34	4.79	122.8	80.2	0.0
1953	23	15	4	8	0	5	1	114	51	59	57	6	116.7	3.93	1.483	4.40	3.80	91.1	106.1	1.5
1954	31	30	11	12	0	8	2	182	90	87	102	16	199.7	4.06	1.347	4.60	3.84	94.9	99.7	2.6
1955	31	31	12	10	0	7	3	207	94	85	95	10	208.0	4.07	1.404	4.11	3.41	80.3	104.5	3.1
1956	23	22	9	8	0	9	1	142	68	57	74	9	145.3	4.21	1.369	4.58	3.63	79.7	108.3	1.9
1957	29	29	12	13	0	11	1	207	78	56	96	10	191.0	3.68	1.377	4.52	3.07	76.8	108.5	3.1
1958	10	8	1	7	0	2	0	48	29	11	15	7	43.3	6.02	1.362	3.12	4.61	115.1	66.5	-0.5

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

239

515

459

111

RBI

.2418

OBP

.3048

SLG

.2963

OPS

.6011

Pitching

G (P)

225

177

SHO

1,234

SO (P)

616

BB allowed

530

ERA

4.391

WHIP

1.4643

K/9

4.49

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1951-05-07	BOS @ BAL Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	0	5
1954-09-04	BOS @ ATH Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	0	5
1951-05-26	MIN @ BOS Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	0	4
1952-06-07	DET @ BOS Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	2	0	3
1953-06-17	DET @ BOS Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	2	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1954-04-19	NYY @ BOS Gameday	8.1	5	1	0	5	10	0
1954-07-20	CLE @ BOS Gameday	9.0	10	5	5	3	8	4
1957-08-15	NYY @ BOS Gameday	7.0	8	4	4	4	8	2
1954-06-30	NYY @ BOS Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	5	7	1
1955-04-20	BOS @ MIN Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	2	7	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.