Bob Ferguson
New York Mutuals 1871; Brooklyn Atlantics 1872–1874; Hartford Dark Blues 1875–1877; Chicago White Stockings 1878; Troy Trojans 1879–1882; Philadelphia Quakers 1883; Pittsburg Alleghenys 1884
Percentile snapshot
1883 season — qualified batters
of 115 qualified 1883 batters (min 306 PA) · 2 stats not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1871 | 33 | 161 | 158 | 30 | 38 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | .241 | .255 | .291 | .546 | 77.2 | 56.2 | .246 | -0.1 |
| 1872 | 37 | 167 | 164 | 33 | 46 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | .280 | .293 | .299 | .592 | 91.4 | 82.7 | .275 | 0.3 |
| 1873 | 51 | 232 | 228 | 36 | 59 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 25 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 2 | .259 | .272 | .316 | .587 | 84.9 | 73.1 | .269 | 0.2 |
| 1874 | 56 | 247 | 245 | 34 | 64 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 3 | .261 | .267 | .278 | .545 | 85.3 | 74.5 | .250 | 0.4 |
| 1875 | 85 | 369 | 366 | 65 | 88 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 43 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | .240 | .247 | .290 | .536 | 90.8 | 84.5 | .245 | 0.5 |
| 1876 | 69 | 312 | 310 | 48 | 82 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 32 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .265 | .269 | .323 | .592 | 96.8 | 95.8 | .273 | 1.0 |
| 1877 | 58 | 257 | 254 | 40 | 65 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .256 | .265 | .299 | .564 | 82.3 | 76.7 | .260 | 0.3 |
| 1878 | 61 | 269 | 259 | 44 | 91 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 39 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .351 | .375 | .405 | .781 | 141.1 | 156.3 | .363 | 2.6 |
| 1879 | 30 | 127 | 123 | 18 | 31 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .252 | .276 | .325 | .601 | 98.1 | 96.7 | .272 | 0.4 |
| 1880 | 82 | 356 | 332 | 55 | 87 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .262 | .312 | .289 | .601 | 105.2 | 103.8 | .280 | 1.6 |
| 1881 | 85 | 368 | 339 | 56 | 96 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 35 | 29 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .283 | .340 | .360 | .700 | 116.4 | 118.6 | .326 | 2.2 |
| 1882 | 81 | 342 | 319 | 44 | 82 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 23 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .257 | .307 | .317 | .624 | 102.1 | 100.7 | .286 | 1.4 |
| 1883 | 86 | 347 | 329 | 39 | 85 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 18 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .258 | .297 | .298 | .595 | 86.7 | 80.4 | .270 | 0.7 |
| 1884 | 10 | 41 | 41 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .146 | .146 | .146 | .293 | 23.4 | -4.3 | .133 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1871 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 27.00 | 8.000 | 0.00 | 3.58 | 84.8 | 15.6 | -0.1 |
| 1873 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 41 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 19.3 | 5.59 | 2.224 | 0.00 | 4.76 | 140.0 | 60.8 | 0.2 |
| 1874 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 4.00 | 1.667 | 0.00 | 3.07 | 140.0 | 54.8 | 0.4 |
| 1875 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.0 | 22.50 | 4.500 | 0.00 | 8.74 | 392.6 | 9.9 | 0.5 |
| 1877 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 25.0 | 3.96 | 1.600 | 0.36 | 3.00 | 106.8 | 70.9 | 0.3 |
| 1883 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 9.00 | 2.000 | 0.00 | 3.25 | 103.6 | 34.8 | 0.7 |
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
Pitching
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.