MLB / Players

Alex Gaston

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 9 in · 170 lb
BornMarch 12, 1893 · New York, NY, USA
MLB debutSeptember 26, 1920
Final gameSeptember 28, 1929
Seasons6 (1920–1929)

New York Giants 1920–1923; Boston Red Sox 1926; Boston Red Sox 1929

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
-0.8
8.7

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
1920412102100011200.100.182.100.282-19.7-16.7.154-0.1
19212023221511031900.227.261.364.62559.464.9.2820.1
19221626261500010310.192.192.192.385-8.20.0.178-0.2
19232240393820150600.205.225.333.55840.847.7.2520.0
192698337301376753021212830.223.282.259.54140.242.4.264-0.6
192955127116142652296810.224.262.353.61653.658.6.2790.1

Career totals

G
215
PA
565
AB
514
R
58
H
112
2B
13
3B
6
HR
3
RBI
40
BB
29
SO
56
SB
5
BA
.2179
OBP
.2664
SLG
.2840
OPS
.5504

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
1929-06-24BOS @ ATH Gameday312001205
1929-09-15CWS @ BOS Gameday413100004
1926-04-21BOS @ NYY Gameday422010004
1929-06-14BAL @ BOS Gameday422010004
1929-08-10BOS @ CWS Gameday322200004

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1920-04-14ATL @ SF Gameday0.0000000
1920-04-15ATL @ SF Gameday0.0000000
1920-04-18PHI @ SF Gameday0.0000000
1920-04-19PHI @ SF Gameday0.0000000
1920-04-20PHI @ SF 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.