Buttons Briggs
Chicago Colts 1896–1897; Chicago Orphans 1898; Chicago Cubs 1904–1905
Percentile snapshot
1905 season — qualified pitchers
of 85 qualified 1905 pitchers (min 155 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896 | 26 | 85 | 78 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .128 | .200 | .179 | .379 | 15.7 | 0.4 | .194 | 1.6 |
| 1897 | 22 | 86 | 81 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 0 | .160 | .190 | .185 | .376 | 9.4 | -0.7 | .184 | -0.2 |
| 1898 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .429 | .429 | .500 | .929 | 155.5 | 165.3 | .442 | -0.2 |
| 1904 | 34 | 101 | 94 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 26 | 0 | 0 | .170 | .212 | .213 | .425 | 34.4 | 32.9 | .210 | 4.8 |
| 1905 | 20 | 64 | 57 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .053 | .115 | .053 | .167 | -45.4 | -49.4 | .097 | 2.9 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896 | 26 | 21 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 19 | 0 | 202 | 93 | 108 | 84 | 6 | 194.0 | 4.31 | 1.598 | 3.90 | 4.73 | 108.5 | 101.0 | 1.6 |
| 1897 | 22 | 22 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 246 | 109 | 85 | 60 | 6 | 186.7 | 5.26 | 1.773 | 2.89 | 4.61 | 107.1 | 81.8 | -0.2 |
| 1898 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 19 | 10 | 14 | 0 | 30.0 | 5.70 | 1.600 | 4.20 | 2.93 | 81.4 | 63.2 | -0.2 |
| 1904 | 34 | 30 | 19 | 11 | 3 | 28 | 3 | 252 | 63 | 77 | 112 | 3 | 277.0 | 2.05 | 1.188 | 3.64 | 2.59 | 97.5 | 129.6 | 4.8 |
| 1905 | 20 | 20 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 141 | 40 | 52 | 68 | 1 | 168.0 | 2.14 | 1.149 | 3.64 | 2.89 | 97.3 | 138.6 | 2.9 |
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.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904-09-28 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1904-04-18 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1904-09-18 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1904-08-18 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1904-05-27 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904-09-15 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 12.0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
| 1905-05-07 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1904-04-18 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 1904-05-27 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| 1904-07-17 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
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.