Ben Houser
Philadelphia Athletics 1910; Boston Rustlers 1911; Boston Braves 1912
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | 34 | 79 | 69 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .188 | .263 | .290 | .553 | 76.2 | 76.9 | .275 | -0.2 |
| 1911 | 20 | 79 | 71 | 11 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | .254 | .329 | .310 | .639 | 71.0 | 70.8 | .315 | -0.2 |
| 1912 | 108 | 360 | 332 | 38 | 95 | 17 | 3 | 8 | 52 | 22 | 29 | 1 | 0 | .286 | .332 | .428 | .760 | 98.1 | 102.0 | .355 | 0.4 |
Career totals
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 | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912-06-27 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1911-10-09 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1912-06-20 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1912-09-21 | CIN @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1912-09-14 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910-04-14 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1910-04-15 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1910-04-16 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1910-04-20 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1910-04-21 | NYY @ ATH 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.