Al Orth

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 200 lb

BornSeptember 5, 1872 · Sedalia, MO, USA

MLB debutAugust 15, 1895

Final gameSeptember 20, 1909

Seasons15 (1895–1909)

Philadelphia Phillies 1895–1901; Washington Senators 1902–1903; New York Highlanders 1904; Washington Senators 1904; New York Highlanders 1905–1909

Percentile snapshot

1907 season — qualified pitchers

60.3

76.9

55.1

2.6

52.6

SHO

25.6

244

30.8

24.4

60.3

37.2

248.7

55.1

ERA

2.61

26.9

WHIP

1.194

37.2

K/9

2.82

19.2

FIP

2.53

39.7

FIP-

91.7

61.5

ERA+

105.9

49.4

sWAR

4.0

75.6

of 79 qualified 1907 pitchers (min 152 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

100.0

38.4

sWAR

40.7

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
1895	11	48	45	8	16	4	0	1	13	1	6	0	.356	.370	.511	.881	116.5	125.5	.404	1.8
1896	25	85	82	12	21	3	3	1	13	3	11	2	.256	.282	.402	.685	76.9	79.3	.316	2.1
1897	53	157	152	26	50	7	4	1	17	3	8	5	.329	.342	.447	.789	101.9	107.3	.366	2.8
1898	39	133	123	17	36	6	4	1	14	3	15	1	.293	.310	.431	.740	103.5	111.2	.349	4.7
1899	22	64	62	5	13	3	1	1	5	1	3	2	.210	.222	.339	.561	50.2	52.7	.260	3.4
1900	39	132	129	6	40	4	1	1	21	2	16	2	.310	.326	.380	.706	91.5	94.3	.332	3.0
1901	41	132	128	14	36	6	0	1	15	3	11	3	.281	.303	.352	.655	84.7	87.3	.309	7.0
1902	56	187	175	20	38	3	2	2	10	9	10	2	.217	.255	.291	.547	50.2	49.9	.258	2.3
1903	55	168	162	19	49	9	7	0	11	4	13	3	.302	.323	.444	.768	123.0	126.5	.350	-0.1
1904	55	171	166	13	41	4	2	0	18	1	21	4	.247	.265	.295	.560	68.7	73.5	.265	0.6
1905	55	139	131	13	24	3	1	1	8	4	22	2	.183	.213	.244	.458	31.9	38.6	.221	3.1
1906	47	144	135	12	37	2	2	1	17	6	8	2	.274	.305	.341	.646	97.9	100.6	.310	5.9
1907	44	112	105	11	34	6	0	1	13	4	6	1	.324	.355	.410	.764	131.8	133.5	.369	4.0
1908	38	73	69	4	20	1	2	0	4	2	7	0	.290	.310	.362	.672	110.2	114.1	.323	0.2
1909	22	40	34	3	9	0	1	0	5	5	9	1	.265	.359	.324	.683	118.8	112.9	.343	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1895	11	10	8	1	1	9	0	103	38	22	25	0	88.0	3.89	1.420	2.56	3.83	80.3	122.8	1.8
1896	25	23	15	10	0	19	0	244	96	46	23	10	196.0	4.41	1.480	1.06	4.47	102.6	98.9	2.1
1897	36	34	14	19	0	29	2	349	145	82	64	12	282.3	4.62	1.527	2.04	4.35	101.2	93.1	2.8
1898	32	28	15	13	0	25	1	290	84	53	52	2	250.0	3.02	1.372	1.87	3.19	88.5	119.1	4.7
1899	21	15	14	3	1	13	3	149	40	19	35	0	144.7	2.49	1.161	2.18	2.91	75.6	154.6	3.4
1900	33	30	14	14	1	24	2	302	110	60	68	4	262.0	3.78	1.382	2.34	3.34	90.5	97.8	3.0
1901	35	33	20	12	1	30	6	250	71	32	92	3	281.7	2.27	1.001	2.94	2.85	83.9	149.7	7.0
1902	38	37	19	18	0	36	1	367	143	40	76	18	324.0	3.97	1.256	2.11	3.51	96.8	91.4	2.3
1903	36	32	10	22	2	30	2	326	135	62	88	8	279.7	4.34	1.387	2.83	3.26	108.2	69.4	-0.1
1904	30	25	14	10	0	18	2	210	80	34	70	2	211.3	3.41	1.155	2.98	2.53	94.1	79.0	0.6
1905	40	37	18	16	0	26	6	273	97	61	121	8	305.3	2.86	1.094	3.57	2.67	92.4	101.2	3.1
1906	45	39	27	17	0	36	3	317	88	66	133	2	338.7	2.34	1.131	3.53	2.36	86.7	116.5	5.9
1907	36	33	14	21	0	21	2	244	72	53	78	2	248.7	2.61	1.194	2.82	2.53	91.7	105.9	4.0
1908	21	17	2	13	0	8	1	134	53	30	22	4	139.3	3.42	1.177	1.42	3.04	122.6	72.4	0.2
1909	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	4	1	1	0	3.0	12.00	2.333	3.00	2.62	103.5	21.1	-0.1

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

602

1,785

1,698

183

464

RBI

184

166

.2733

OBP

.2977

SLG

.3657

OPS

.6634

Pitching

G (P)

440

394

147th-most career GS

204

110th-most career W

189

56th-most career L

324

31st-most career CG

SHO

104th-most career SHO

3,355

90th-most career IP

SO (P)

948

BB allowed

661

453rd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.370

353rd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2594

380th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

2.54

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	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1902-06-13	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	3	2	0	1	1	3	7
1901-09-02	CIN @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	2	6
1907-04-30	NYY @ BOS Gameday	3	2	2	1	0	1	1	6
1903-08-20	MIN @ CLE Gameday	3	0	3	0	1	0	1	5
1906-09-25	NYY @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1906-09-04	NYY @ BOS Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	0	9
1901-05-21	CHC @ PHI Gameday	9.0	11	3	2	2	7
1901-09-30	PHI @ CIN Gameday	9.0	9	2	1	0	7
1904-07-25	CWS @ NYY Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	7
1905-08-01	CLE @ NYY Gameday	9.0	6	2	0	1	7

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.