Graig Nettles

1967–1988 · 22 seasons · Bats left, throws right · Born 1944

2× Gold Glove

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1967	Minnesota Twins	AL	3	3	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.667	1.000	0.0
1968	Minnesota Twins	AL	22	84	76	13	17	2	1	5	8	7	20	0	.224	.298	.474	.771	0.6
1969	Minnesota Twins	AL	96	261	225	27	50	9	2	7	26	32	47	1	.222	.319	.373	.693	0.8
1970	Cleveland Indians	AL	157	633	549	81	129	13	1	26	62	81	77	3	.235	.336	.404	.741	4.3
1971	Cleveland Indians	AL	158	690	598	78	156	18	1	28	86	82	56	7	.261	.350	.435	.785	7.8
1972	Cleveland Indians	AL	150	623	557	65	141	28	0	17	70	57	50	2	.253	.325	.395	.720	4.1
1973	New York Yankees	AL	160	641	552	65	129	18	0	22	81	78	76	0	.234	.334	.386	.720	4.8
1974	New York Yankees	AL	155	638	566	74	139	21	1	22	75	59	75	1	.246	.316	.403	.718	4.0
1975	New York Yankees	AL	157	647	581	71	155	24	4	21	91	51	88	1	.267	.322	.430	.753	4.2
1976	New York Yankees	AL	158	656	583	88	148	29	2	32	93	62	94	11	.254	.327	.475	.802	6.5
1977GG	New York Yankees	AL	158	664	589	99	150	23	4	37	107	68	79	2	.255	.333	.496	.829	4.2
1978GG	New York Yankees	AL	159	662	587	81	162	23	2	27	93	59	69	1	.276	.343	.460	.803	4.2
1979	New York Yankees	AL	145	588	521	71	132	15	1	20	73	59	53	1	.253	.325	.401	.726	2.7
1980	New York Yankees	AL	89	369	324	52	79	14	0	16	45	42	42	0	.244	.331	.435	.766	1.8
1981	New York Yankees	AL	103	402	349	46	85	7	1	15	46	47	49	0	.244	.333	.398	.731	2.3
1982	New York Yankees	AL	122	461	405	47	94	11	2	18	55	51	49	1	.232	.317	.402	.719	1.9
1983	New York Yankees	AL	129	519	462	56	123	17	3	20	75	51	65	0	.266	.341	.446	.787	3.6
1984	San Diego Padres	NL	124	465	395	56	90	11	1	20	65	58	55	0	.228	.329	.413	.742	2.4
1985	San Diego Padres	NL	137	515	440	66	115	23	1	15	61	72	59	0	.261	.363	.420	.784	3.5
1986	San Diego Padres	NL	126	400	354	36	77	9	0	16	55	41	62	0	.218	.300	.379	.679	0.6
1987	Atlanta Braves	NL	112	201	177	16	37	8	1	5	33	22	25	1	.209	.294	.350	.644	-0.3
1988	Montreal Expos	NL	80	104	93	5	16	4	0	1	14	9	19	0	.172	.240	.247	.488	-0.7
Career	22 seasons		2700	10226	8986	1193	2225	328	28	390	1314	1088	1209	32	.248	.332	.421	.753	63.6

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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Not every award existed yet. This database has Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

— means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: AL (American League), NL (National League).

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