Bio
- Debut
- 1936
Bio
- Debut
- 1936
Stats
Standard
Career regular season
- GP
- 349
- W
- 92
- L
- 97
- ERA
- 3.99
- IP
- 1686.0
- K
- 747
- BB
- 582
- WHIP
- 1.37
| GP: Games the player appeared in, however briefly. | W: Games in which this pitcher was credited with the win. | L: Games in which this pitcher was charged with the loss. | ERA: Earned runs allowed per nine innings pitched — lower is better. Under 3.00 is excellent. | IP: Innings pitched. The decimal counts outs, so 6.2 is six innings and two more outs. | K: Batters this pitcher struck out. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | WHIP: Walks and hits allowed per inning pitched — lower is better. Around 1.00 is elite. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | STL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 1938 | ATH | 35 | 2 | 12 | 6.47 | 111.1 | 43 | 49 | 1.69 |
| 1939 | ATH | 41 | 8 | 12 | 6.60 | 196.1 | 60 | 88 | 1.76 |
| 1940 | ATH | 31 | 9 | 14 | 4.44 | 200.2 | 73 | 71 | 1.42 |
| 1941 |  ATH/BOS | 20 | 3 | 1 | 7.06 | 43.1 | 13 | 32 | 2.03 |
| 1943 | BAL | 33 | 10 | 5 | 2.78 | 168.1 | 80 | 54 | 1.19 |
| 1944 | BAL | 32 | 19 | 7 | 2.83 | 232.0 | 91 | 70 | 1.21 |
| 1945 | BAL | 32 | 15 | 11 | 2.47 | 255.1 | 129 | 68 | 1.10 |
| 1946 | BAL | 23 | 8 | 9 | 3.72 | 145.0 | 72 | 59 | 1.46 |
| 1947 | BAL | 32 | 4 | 10 | 4.04 | 122.2 | 65 | 44 | 1.42 |
| 1948 |  BAL/ATH/ATL | 28 | 8 | 5 | 2.86 | 113.1 | 64 | 17 | 1.08 |
| 1949 | ATL | 41 | 6 | 11 | 4.19 | 96.2 | 57 | 30 | 1.33 |
Career Postseason
- GP
- 4
- W
- 0
- L
- 1
- ERA
- 3.86
- IP
- 14.0
- K
- 7
- BB
- 5
- WHIP
- 1.50
Expanded
Career regular season
- QS
- 0
- CG
- 89
- SHO
- 6
- K/9
- 4.0
- GB
- 0
- FB
- 0
- G/F
- 0.00
- WP
- 0
| QS: Quality starts: six innings or more with no more than three earned runs. | CG: Complete games, pitched from the first out to the last. | SHO: Shutouts — complete games with no run allowed. | K/9: Strikeouts for every nine innings pitched. | GB: Ground balls hit against this pitcher. | FB: Fly balls hit against this pitcher. | G/F: Ground balls for every fly ball hit against this pitcher. | WP: Wild pitches — throws the catcher had no chance to stop. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | ATH | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939 | ATH | 0 | 9 | 0 | 2.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940 | ATH | 0 | 13 | 0 | 3.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941 | ATH/BOS | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943 | BAL | 0 | 8 | 0 | 4.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944 | BAL | 0 | 16 | 3 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1945 | BAL | 0 | 21 | 3 | 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946 | BAL | 0 | 10 | 0 | 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947 | BAL | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948 | BAL/ATH/ATL | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949 | ATL | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What were Nels Potter's career stats?
Nels Potter played 12 seasons for the Cardinals, the Athletics, the Orioles and the Braves. He had 92 wins and 747 strikeouts with a 3.99 ERA over 1,686.0 innings. His best season was 1944: 19 wins, a 2.83 ERA and 91 strikeouts.
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