Curt Welch

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornFebruary 10, 1862 · Williamsport, OH, USA

MLB debutMay 1, 1884

Final gameMay 23, 1893

Seasons10 (1884–1893)

Toledo Blue Stockings 1884; St. Louis Browns 1885–1887; Philadelphia Athletics 1888–1889; Baltimore Orioles 1890; Philadelphia Athletics 1890; Baltimore Orioles 1891–1892; Cincinnati Reds 1892; Louisville Colonels 1893

Percentile snapshot

1891 season — qualified batters

132

55.5

627

87.3

514

56.4

122

92.7

138

62.7

75.5

62.7

39.1

RBI

36.4

86.4

36.4

84.5

.268

49.1

OBP

.400

90.9

SLG

.368

53.6

OPS

.768

68.2

wRC+

119.7

74.5

OPS+

119.5

65.5

wOBA

.386

78.2

sWAR

3.8

86.4

of 111 qualified 1891 batters (min 430 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

108.4

58.3

OPS+

109.2

60.8

sWAR

23.0

94.7

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
1884	109	439	425	61	95	24	5	0	0	10	0	0	.224	.248	.304	.552	84.3	78.9	.252	0.8
1885	112	462	432	84	117	18	8	3	69	23	0	0	.271	.318	.370	.689	112.0	116.9	.321	2.5
1886	138	606	563	114	158	31	13	2	95	29	0	59	.281	.332	.393	.724	117.7	127.3	.345	3.6
1887	131	580	544	98	151	32	7	3	108	25	21	89	.278	.322	.379	.701	94.0	93.9	.331	1.6
1888	136	611	549	125	155	22	8	1	61	33	37	95	.282	.355	.357	.712	122.1	128.1	.345	4.0
1889	125	602	516	134	140	39	6	0	39	67	30	66	.271	.375	.370	.746	111.9	112.3	.365	3.1
1890	122	556	464	116	115	25	4	2	45	58	0	72	.248	.372	.332	.704	110.0	107.3	.359	2.2
1891	132	627	514	122	138	22	10	3	55	77	42	50	.268	.400	.368	.768	119.7	119.5	.386	3.8
1892	88	391	331	56	75	1	5	2	29	43	17	21	.227	.345	.278	.623	97.2	88.6	.320	1.3
1893	14	65	47	5	8	1	0	0	2	16	4	1	.170	.400	.191	.591	88.1	59.1	.339	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
1890	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	6	0	1	0	1.0	54.00	6.000	9.00	1.14	29.6	7.2	2.2

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

1,107

4,939

4,385

915

460th-most career R

1,152

215

450th-most career 3B

RBI

503

381

151

453

54th-most career SB

.2627

OBP

.3454

SLG

.3528

OPS

.6982

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

54.000

WHIP

6.0000

K/9

9.00

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.