MLB / Players

Ben Stephens

HandednessThrows Right
Listed at5 ft 10 in · 170 lb
BornSeptember 28, 1867 · Romeo, MI, USA
MLB debutAugust 5, 1892
Final gameMay 4, 1894
Seasons3 (1892–1894)

Baltimore Orioles 1892; Cincinnati Reds 1892; Washington Senators 1893–1894

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
0.3
55.5

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
1892617152000002900.000.118.000.118-26.5-63.8.0910.5
1893930290300001500.103.133.103.237-15.8-36.8.121-0.3
18943440100000000.250.250.250.50030.620.7.2340.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
189263121204910138236.02.501.7222.003.88118.1131.40.5
1893960606083413114163.75.801.7911.984.6699.980.4-0.3
1894320001019681111.04.912.4550.827.27136.4108.50.1

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

G
18
PA
51
AB
48
R
2
H
4
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
3
SO
14
SB
0
BA
.0833
OBP
.1373
SLG
.0833
OPS
.2206

Pitching

G (P)
18
GS
11
W
1
L
8
SV
1
CG
9
SHO
0
IP
111
SO (P)
23
BB allowed
52
ERA
4.636
WHIP
1.8343
K/9
1.87

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.