MLB / Players

Buck Freeman

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 169 lb

BornOctober 30, 1871 · Catasauqua, PA, USA

MLB debutJune 27, 1891

Final gameApril 20, 1907

Seasons11 (1891–1907)

Washington Statesmen 1891; Washington Senators 1898–1899; Boston Beaneaters 1900; Boston Americans 1901–1907

Percentile snapshot

1905 season — qualified batters

130

35.2

515

32.4

455

26.9

46.3

109

26.9

57.4

66.7

RBI

53.7

71.3

32.4

22.2

.240

20.4

OBP

.316

43.5

SLG

.338

41.7

OPS

.655

42.6

wRC+

107.5

52.8

OPS+

106.5

50.9

wOBA

.320

43.5

sWAR

1.3

36.1

of 109 qualified 1905 batters (min 474 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

129.1

89.7

OPS+

133.1

92.6

sWAR

25.8

95.6

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1891	5	20	18	1	4	1	0	0	1	2	2	0	.222	.300	.278	.578	73.0	65.1	.291	0.4
1898	29	119	107	19	39	2	3	3	21	7	4	2	.364	.424	.523	.947	159.8	170.5	.450	1.2
1899	155	634	588	107	187	19	25	25	122	23	25	21	.318	.362	.563	.925	139.1	151.9	.425	4.5
1900	117	461	418	58	126	19	13	6	65	25	28	10	.301	.355	.452	.808	117.0	122.0	.379	2.0
1901	129	548	490	88	166	23	15	12	114	44	30	17	.339	.400	.520	.920	146.6	156.6	.424	4.2
1902	138	608	564	75	174	38	19	11	121	32	40	17	.309	.352	.502	.854	129.0	135.0	.390	3.7
1903	141	611	567	74	163	39	20	13	104	30	73	5	.287	.328	.496	.823	137.6	141.7	.373	4.2
1904	157	652	597	64	167	20	19	7	84	32	90	7	.280	.329	.412	.741	129.5	129.8	.349	3.6
1905	130	515	455	59	109	20	8	3	49	46	51	8	.240	.316	.338	.655	107.5	106.5	.320	1.3
1906	121	436	392	42	98	18	9	1	30	28	43	5	.250	.302	.349	.651	99.8	101.4	.314	0.7
1907	4	15	12	1	2	0	0	1	2	3	2	0	.167	.333	.417	.750	140.7	138.7	.369	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1891	5	4	3	2	0	4	0	35	19	33	28	0	44.0	3.89	1.545	5.73	3.91	105.3	95.4	0.4
1899	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	6	3	0	3	7.0	7.71	2.571	0.00	11.08	288.0	49.9	4.5

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

1,126

4,619

4,208

588

1,235

199

131

78th-most career 3B

RBI

713

272

388

.2935

338th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3460

SLG

.4615

375th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8075

430th-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

4.412

WHIP

1.6863

K/9

4.94

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	TB
1903-06-21	BOS @ CLE Gameday	6	3	5	1	1	1	6	11
1903-06-01	BOS @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	5	9
1904-08-24	CWS @ BOS Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	1	2	9
1901-05-08	ATH @ BOS Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	1	5	8
1901-07-17	BOS @ CLE Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	5	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-26	BOS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	BOS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-30	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-05-01	BOS @ 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.