Candy Cummings

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 120 lb

BornOctober 18, 1848 · Ware, MA, USA

MLB debutApril 22, 1872

Final gameAugust 18, 1877

Seasons6 (1872–1877)

New York Mutuals 1872; Baltimore Canaries 1873; Philadelphia Whites 1874; Hartford Dark Blues 1875–1876; Cincinnati Reds 1877

Percentile snapshot

1874 season — qualified batters

41.3

231

31.7

231

31.7

25.4

9.5

47.6

RBI

15.9

4.8

12.7

36.5

.225

14.3

OBP

.225

11.1

SLG

.260

12.7

OPS

.485

7.9

wRC+

73.5

6.3

OPS+

54.6

9.5

wOBA

.221

6.3

sWAR

5.4

95.2

of 64 qualified 1874 batters (min 179 PA)

1877 season — qualified pitchers

SHO

219

155.7

ERA

4.34

WHIP

1.490

K/9

0.64

FIP

3.12

FIP-

111.0

ERA+

64.7

sWAR

-0.8

of 11 qualified 1877 pitchers (min 58 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

115.8

84.4

sWAR

25.3

95.5

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1872	55	253	249	37	52	9	3	26	4	14	0	1	.209	.221	.269	.490	74.3	50.2	.226	6.4
1873	42	197	192	30	48	5	0	36	5	5	1	0	.250	.269	.276	.545	79.0	61.5	.253	5.4
1874	54	231	231	32	52	4	2	19	0	12	1	1	.225	.225	.260	.485	73.5	54.6	.221	5.4
1875	53	224	221	30	44	7	2	15	3	11	1	0	.199	.210	.249	.459	75.3	57.8	.210	6.2
1876	24	105	105	14	17	3	0	7	0	3	0	0	.162	.162	.190	.352	44.5	16.7	.162	2.8
1877	19	74	70	6	14	1	2	4	4	6	0	0	.200	.243	.271	.515	73.6	61.4	.242	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1872	55	55	33	20	53	3	604	166	31	45	2	497.0	3.01	1.278	0.81	3.49	95.4	121.6	6.4
1873	42	42	28	14	42	1	475	119	33	34	4	382.0	2.80	1.330	0.80	3.32	97.7	121.2	5.4
1874	54	54	28	26	52	3	616	105	18	61	4	483.0	1.96	1.313	1.14	2.03	92.8	112.0	5.4
1875	48	47	35	12	46	7	397	74	4	82	0	416.0	1.60	.964	1.77	1.87	84.2	139.0	6.2
1876	24	24	16	8	24	5	215	40	14	26	0	216.0	1.67	1.060	1.08	2.19	94.8	138.4	2.8
1877	19	19	5	14	16	0	219	75	13	11	2	155.7	4.34	1.490	0.64	3.12	111.0	64.7	-0.8

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

1,084

1,068

149

227

RBI

107

.2125

OBP

.2242

SLG

.2566

OPS

.4808

Pitching

G (P)

242

241

145

281st-most career W

233

97th-most career CG

SHO

274th-most career SHO

2,150

374th-most career IP

SO (P)

259

BB allowed

113

ERA

2.424

31st-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2276

248th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

1.08

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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1939 (Old Timers)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.