Al Maul

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornOctober 9, 1865 · Philadelphia, PA, USA

MLB debutJune 20, 1884

Final gameSeptember 9, 1901

Seasons15 (1884–1901)

Philadelphia Keystones 1884; Philadelphia Quakers 1887; Pittsburg Alleghenys 1888–1889; Pittsburgh Burghers 1890; Pittsburgh Pirates 1891; Washington Senators 1893–1896; Baltimore Orioles 1897; Washington Senators 1897; Baltimore Orioles 1898; Brooklyn Superbas 1899; Philadelphia Phillies 1900; New York Giants 1901

Percentile snapshot

1898 season — qualified pitchers

14.6

22.9

66.7

93.8

33.3

SHO

39.6

207

87.5

93.8

87.5

10.4

62.5

239.7

27.1

ERA

2.10

93.8

WHIP

1.068

95.8

K/9

1.16

6.3

FIP

3.33

68.8

FIP-

92.6

68.8

ERA+

171.3

95.7

sWAR

6.5

89.6

of 49 qualified 1898 pitchers (min 153 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

97.3

27.2

sWAR

16.2

91.7

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1884	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-28.2	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1887	16	71	56	15	17	2	2	1	4	15	10	5	.304	.451	.464	.915	145.7	154.2	.426	0.4
1888	74	283	259	21	54	9	4	0	31	21	45	9	.208	.276	.274	.550	82.0	75.3	.263	-0.6
1889	68	289	257	37	71	6	6	4	44	29	41	18	.276	.356	.393	.749	106.8	108.2	.359	-0.9
1890	46	188	166	31	43	6	3	0	22	22	13	5	.259	.346	.331	.677	87.3	80.9	.332	3.7
1891	47	169	149	15	28	2	4	0	14	20	28	4	.188	.284	.255	.539	68.3	57.2	.273	0.5
1893	44	168	134	10	34	8	4	0	12	33	14	1	.254	.405	.373	.778	111.3	107.0	.388	2.2
1894	41	146	124	23	30	3	3	2	20	14	11	1	.242	.352	.363	.715	79.9	72.3	.343	1.2
1895	22	80	72	9	18	5	2	0	16	6	7	0	.250	.308	.375	.683	77.7	75.3	.322	4.1
1896	8	31	28	6	8	1	1	0	5	3	2	0	.286	.355	.393	.748	97.3	96.8	.357	1.2
1897	3	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	36.5	32.1	.237	-0.2
1898	29	112	93	21	19	3	2	0	10	16	16	1	.204	.333	.280	.613	85.6	75.7	.317	6.5
1899	4	12	11	2	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.273	.333	.273	.606	73.6	66.8	.303	0.1
1900	5	17	15	2	3	0	0	0	1	2	3	0	.200	.294	.200	.494	50.9	37.6	.258	-0.6
1901	3	8	8	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	.375	.375	.375	.750	115.0	118.1	.355	-1.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1884	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	10	4	1	7	0	8.0	4.50	1.375	7.88	2.29	75.4	67.6	-0.1
1887	7	5	4	2	0	4	0	72	31	15	18	2	50.3	5.54	1.728	3.22	3.91	96.6	73.0	0.4
1888	3	1	0	2	0	1	0	26	12	5	12	0	17.0	6.35	1.824	6.35	1.93	68.2	44.6	-0.6
1889	6	4	1	4	0	4	0	64	46	28	11	3	42.0	9.86	2.190	2.36	5.47	135.9	40.8	-0.9
1890	31	29	16	12	0	27	2	279	112	105	87	14	255.7	3.94	1.502	3.06	4.34	102.8	107.2	3.7
1891	8	3	1	2	1	3	0	44	10	16	13	0	39.0	2.31	1.538	3.00	3.20	95.7	144.9	0.5
1893	37	33	12	21	0	29	1	355	175	144	72	17	297.0	5.30	1.680	2.18	5.14	110.3	87.9	2.2
1894	28	26	11	15	0	21	0	272	134	73	34	12	201.7	5.98	1.711	1.52	5.49	103.0	89.1	1.2
1895	16	16	10	5	0	14	0	136	37	37	34	5	135.7	2.45	1.275	2.26	4.44	93.1	194.4	4.1
1896	8	8	5	2	0	7	0	75	25	20	18	0	62.0	3.63	1.532	2.61	3.87	88.9	120.1	1.2
1897	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	13	8	9	2	0	9.7	7.45	2.276	1.86	6.94	161.3	57.8	-0.2
1898	28	28	20	7	0	26	1	207	56	49	31	3	239.7	2.10	1.068	1.16	3.33	92.6	171.3	6.5
1899	4	4	2	0	0	2	0	35	13	6	2	1	26.0	4.50	1.577	0.69	4.21	109.3	85.5	0.1
1900	5	4	2	3	0	3	0	53	26	3	6	2	38.0	6.16	1.474	1.42	3.59	97.2	60.0	-0.6
1901	3	3	0	3	0	2	0	39	24	8	5	1	19.0	11.37	2.474	2.37	4.67	141.3	29.1	-1.4

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

411

1,582

1,380

193

332

RBI

180

182

194

.2406

OBP

.3359

SLG

.3333

OPS

.6692

Pitching

G (P)

188

168

144

242nd-most career CG

SHO

1,441

SO (P)

352

BB allowed

519

ERA

4.454

WHIP

1.5264

K/9

2.20

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

Date	Game	AB	R	H	RBI	TB
1901-09-03	CHC @ SF Gameday	4	0	2	1	2
1901-09-05	PIT @ SF Gameday	4	1	1	0	1
1901-04-19	SF @ ATL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	LAD @ SF Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	SF @ PHI Gameday	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-09-05	PIT @ SF Gameday	9.0	22	15	15	5	3	1
1901-09-03	CHC @ SF Gameday	9.0	15	10	7	2	2	0
1901-09-09	STL @ SF Gameday	1.0	2	2	2	1	0	0
1901-04-19	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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.