Al Mays
Louisville Colonels 1885; New York Metropolitans 1886–1887; Brooklyn Bridegrooms 1888; Columbus Solons 1889–1890
Percentile snapshot
1889 season — qualified pitchers
of 58 qualified 1889 pitchers (min 139 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | 17 | 63 | 61 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .213 | .238 | .262 | .500 | 68.3 | 57.9 | .234 | 2.2 |
| 1886 | 41 | 141 | 135 | 11 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .119 | .156 | .178 | .334 | 29.8 | 4.8 | .164 | 2.7 |
| 1887 | 62 | 232 | 221 | 23 | 45 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 23 | 10 | 25 | 7 | 0 | .204 | .241 | .335 | .576 | 66.2 | 58.8 | .269 | 2.9 |
| 1888 | 18 | 69 | 63 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 2 | 0 | .079 | .159 | .127 | .286 | 23.4 | -7.9 | .153 | 1.6 |
| 1889 | 21 | 65 | 54 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | .130 | .277 | .148 | .425 | 51.7 | 22.2 | .239 | 0.0 |
| 1890 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .250 | 29.4 | -26.1 | .195 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | 17 | 17 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 129 | 46 | 43 | 61 | 3 | 150.0 | 2.76 | 1.147 | 3.66 | 3.55 | 109.5 | 117.5 | 2.2 |
| 1886 | 41 | 40 | 11 | 27 | 0 | 39 | 1 | 330 | 132 | 140 | 163 | 7 | 350.0 | 3.39 | 1.343 | 4.19 | 3.77 | 109.5 | 101.4 | 2.7 |
| 1887 | 52 | 52 | 17 | 34 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 551 | 232 | 136 | 124 | 11 | 441.3 | 4.73 | 1.557 | 2.53 | 4.27 | 99.5 | 90.7 | 2.9 |
| 1888 | 18 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 150 | 50 | 32 | 67 | 1 | 160.7 | 2.80 | 1.133 | 3.75 | 2.75 | 90.1 | 109.2 | 1.6 |
| 1889 | 21 | 19 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 167 | 75 | 56 | 52 | 4 | 140.0 | 4.82 | 1.593 | 3.34 | 3.93 | 102.3 | 79.7 | 0.0 |
| 1890 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 9.0 | 8.00 | 2.444 | 2.00 | 5.70 | 147.5 | 48.3 | -0.3 |
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
Pitching
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.