MLB / Players

Ben Sanders

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 210 lb

BornFebruary 16, 1865 · Catharpin, VA, USA

MLB debutJune 6, 1888

Final gameOctober 14, 1892

Seasons5 (1888–1892)

Philadelphia Quakers 1888–1889; Philadelphia Athletics 1890–1891; Louisville Colonels 1892

Percentile snapshot

1892 season — qualified pitchers

29.5

36.4

29.5

38.6

SHO

281

52.3

59.1

97.7

27.3

61.4

268.3

36.4

ERA

3.22

43.2

WHIP

1.278

61.4

K/9

2.58

18.2

FIP

2.87

88.6

FIP-

87.3

88.6

ERA+

102.0

43.2

sWAR

4.2

59.1

of 45 qualified 1892 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

113.1

79.1

sWAR

23.8

94.9

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
1888	57	246	236	26	58	11	2	1	25	8	12	13	.246	.276	.322	.598	90.4	89.8	.277	6.8
1889	44	176	169	21	47	8	2	0	21	6	11	4	.278	.307	.349	.656	82.4	82.1	.311	5.7
1890	52	199	189	31	59	6	6	0	30	10	10	2	.312	.347	.407	.754	97.8	100.6	.355	5.7
1891	40	165	156	24	39	6	4	1	19	7	12	2	.250	.291	.359	.650	83.5	85.4	.313	1.4
1892	54	215	198	30	54	12	2	3	18	16	17	6	.273	.330	.399	.729	113.4	119.9	.350	4.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1888	31	29	19	10	0	28	8	240	58	33	121	3	275.3	1.90	.992	3.96	2.12	74.7	149.3	6.8
1889	44	39	19	18	1	34	1	406	138	96	123	9	349.7	3.55	1.436	3.17	3.48	86.5	113.3	5.7
1890	43	40	19	18	1	37	2	412	145	69	107	13	346.7	3.76	1.388	2.78	3.49	82.7	112.3	5.7
1891	19	18	11	5	0	15	0	157	61	37	40	3	145.0	3.79	1.338	2.48	3.30	89.1	97.9	1.4
1892	31	31	12	19	0	30	3	281	96	62	77	6	268.3	3.22	1.278	2.58	2.87	87.3	102.0	4.2

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

247

1,001

948

132

257

RBI

113

.2711

OBP

.3097

SLG

.3660

OPS

.6757

Pitching

G (P)

168

157

144

242nd-most career CG

SHO

436th-most career SHO

1,385

SO (P)

468

BB allowed

297

ERA

3.236

278th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2946

K/9

3.04

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.