Nettles batted .328 with 26 stolen bases and 69 runs scored for Salt Lake City to earn a second chance with the big league club.

Nettles was handed the centerfield job heading into the 1975 campaign, but lost it to Mickey Rivers a month into the season.

Playing one of the corner outfield positions and occasionally filling in for Rivers in center the rest of the way, Nettles batted .231 with fifty runs scored.

He and Jim Spencer were traded to the Chicago White Sox for Bill Melton and Steve Dunning on December 11, 1975.

[2] Nettles was one of many young outfielders competing for the White Sox's centerfield job in Spring training 1976.