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Abner Powell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 160 lb

BornDecember 15, 1860 · Shenandoah, PA, USA

MLB debutAugust 4, 1884

Final gameSeptember 13, 1886

Seasons2 (1884–1886)

Washington Nationals 1884; Baltimore Orioles 1886; Cincinnati Red Stockings 1886

Percentile snapshot

1884 season — qualified pitchers

24.7

28.4

22.2

SHO

33.3

135

75.3

72.8

80.2

29.6

70.4

134.0

ERA

3.43

39.5

WHIP

1.149

48.1

K/9

5.24

59.3

FIP

3.22

44.4

FIP-

105.9

39.5

ERA+

88.8

35.8

sWAR

1.9

46.9

of 82 qualified 1884 pitchers (min 112 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

1.5

67.4

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	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1884	48	194	191	36	54	10	5	0	0	3	0	0	0	.283	.294	.387	.681	116.9	128.4	.310	1.9
1886	30	118	113	17	24	3	2	0	15	5	0	4	0	.212	.246	.274	.520	71.6	63.4	.250	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1884	18	17	6	12	0	14	1	135	51	19	78	3	134.0	3.43	1.149	5.24	3.22	105.9	88.8	1.9
1886	11	8	2	6	0	8	0	82	42	35	19	2	75.3	5.02	1.553	2.27	4.39	127.6	68.6	-0.4

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

312

304

RBI

.2566

OBP

.2756

SLG

.3454

OPS

.6210

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

209

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

3.998

WHIP

1.2946

K/9

4.17

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.