MLB / Players

Al Kaiser

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 9 in · 165 lb
BornAugust 3, 1886 · Cincinnati, OH, USA
MLB debutApril 18, 1911
Final gameAugust 30, 1914
Seasons3 (1911–1914)

Boston Rustlers 1911; Chicago Cubs 1911; Boston Braves 1912; Indianapolis Hoosiers 1914

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
-1.6
2.4

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1911923112813661572221738100.217.267.306.57350.155.9.275-1.0
1912414130000000300.000.000.000.000-119.1-100.0.000-0.3
1914592151872243100116174160.230.301.299.60071.270.9.293-0.2

Career totals

G
155
PA
540
AB
481
R
58
H
104
2B
15
3B
7
HR
3
RBI
38
BB
34
SO
82
SB
16
BA
.2162
OBP
.2736
SLG
.2952
OPS
.5688

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.

Best games

Batting

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1911-07-05ATL @ LAD Gameday413001106
1911-06-01CHC @ PIT Gameday412010114
1911-06-29ATL @ SF Gameday412010004
1911-07-07CIN @ ATL Gameday411001204
1911-07-06CIN @ ATL Gameday702100003

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1911-04-12STL @ CHC Gameday0.0000000
1911-04-14STL @ CHC Gameday0.0000000
1911-04-15STL @ CHC Gameday0.0000000
1911-04-16PIT @ CHC Gameday0.0000000
1911-04-17PIT @ CHC Gameday0.0000000

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.