Nate Colbert played 10 seasons (1966–1976) for HOU, SD, DET and 2 other clubs. Career regular-season line: 833 hits, 173 home runs and a .243 average. Mountain Arc career, peaking in 1972. Honors: 3× All-Star Selections.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
Cross-sport prominence: 91.2th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ LeadersMLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 KMLB Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsMLB Career Arc TypesMLB Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesMLB Clutch Delta — Who Rises in OctoberMLB Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeMLB Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustMLB Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleMLB Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsMLB Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every TeamMLB Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (Hitters and Pitchers)MLB Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on Cooperstown's DoorstepMLB JourneymenMLB League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading SeasonsMLB Loyalty
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Bio, rosters, and year-by-year/career stat splits come directly from MLB's own official public StatsAPI.
Fan Rating
Rate Nate Colbert — All-Time
7 seasons · peak 12.4 in 1972
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
18.8 career wins over 7 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1972 · +4.8 wins
Latest season · 1975 · −0.8 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Nate Colbert led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
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league-leading seasons · 3 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Mountain Arc
The classic build → peak → decline arc — rose to a dominant peak, then faded. Peak 1972, 7 rated seasons.
Season boards
3
top-ten finishes across the MLB season boards
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Wore 5 distinct franchise crests across 11 seasons (1966–1976) — a true nomad. The crest trail: