Cy Seymour

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 200 lb

BornDecember 9, 1872 · Albany, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 22, 1896

Final gameJuly 17, 1913

Seasons16 (1896–1913)

New York Giants 1896–1900; Baltimore Orioles 1901–1902; Cincinnati Reds 1902–1906; New York Giants 1906–1910; Boston Braves 1913

Percentile snapshot

1908 season — qualified batters

156

96.2

653

91.3

587

94.2

60.6

157

90.4

76.9

23.1

89.4

RBI

97.1

42.3

58.7

59.6

.267

60.6

OBP

.306

35.6

SLG

.339

55.8

OPS

.645

44.2

wRC+

100.6

39.4

OPS+

103.1

45.2

wOBA

.313

38.5

sWAR

2.6

67.3

of 105 qualified 1908 batters (min 486 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

1899 season — qualified pitchers

37.3

45.1

41.2

17.6

62.7

SHO

247

66.7

106

43.1

170

142

268.3

47.1

ERA

3.56

45.1

WHIP

1.554

17.6

K/9

4.76

FIP

4.25

13.7

FIP-

110.3

13.7

ERA+

108.2

47.1

sWAR

4.5

66.7

of 52 qualified 1899 pitchers (min 152 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

115.7

72.8

OPS+

119.6

78.9

ERA+

105.0

57.1

sWAR

49.4

98.8

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1896	12	32	32	2	7	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	.219	.219	.219	.438	22.6	15.4	.207	-0.7
1897	45	146	141	13	34	5	1	2	14	4	13	3	.241	.262	.333	.595	57.5	56.4	.279	5.6
1898	80	309	297	41	82	5	2	4	23	9	22	8	.276	.300	.347	.646	82.1	84.7	.310	6.1
1899	50	168	159	25	52	3	2	2	27	4	18	2	.327	.344	.409	.752	101.5	105.7	.355	4.5
1900	23	43	40	9	12	0	0	0	2	3	2	0	.300	.349	.300	.649	84.1	79.8	.319	-1.1
1901	134	586	547	84	166	19	8	1	77	28	25	38	.303	.337	.373	.710	95.3	95.8	.334	1.0
1902	134	572	524	65	158	16	10	5	78	30	46	20	.302	.345	.399	.744	108.5	112.5	.355	2.2
1903	135	607	558	85	191	25	15	7	72	33	32	25	.342	.382	.478	.861	128.9	134.5	.406	4.5
1904	131	570	531	71	166	26	13	5	58	29	23	11	.313	.352	.439	.790	131.0	134.8	.375	4.5
1905	149	643	581	95	219	40	21	8	121	51	29	21	.377	.429	.559	.988	178.4	181.4	.463	8.8
1906	151	632	576	70	165	19	5	8	80	42	42	29	.286	.339	.378	.718	119.6	121.5	.351	4.0
1907	131	527	473	46	139	25	8	3	75	36	35	21	.294	.350	.400	.750	132.5	133.0	.366	4.2
1908	156	653	587	60	157	23	2	5	92	30	34	18	.267	.306	.339	.645	100.6	103.1	.313	2.6
1909	80	315	280	37	87	12	5	1	30	25	8	14	.311	.369	.400	.769	138.1	138.6	.375	2.6
1910	79	322	287	32	76	9	4	1	40	23	18	10	.265	.324	.334	.658	91.9	93.2	.323	0.9
1913	39	83	73	2	13	2	0	0	10	7	7	2	.178	.259	.205	.465	33.0	31.9	.236	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1896	11	8	2	4	0	4	0	75	50	51	33	8	70.3	6.40	1.791	4.22	6.14	140.8	68.1	-0.7
1897	39	34	18	14	1	29	2	257	104	168	156	4	286.7	3.27	1.483	4.90	4.39	102.1	131.7	5.6
1898	45	43	25	19	0	39	4	313	126	213	239	4	356.7	3.18	1.475	6.03	3.63	100.9	113.3	6.1
1899	32	32	14	18	0	31	0	247	106	170	142	5	268.3	3.56	1.554	4.76	4.25	110.3	108.2	4.5
1900	13	7	2	1	0	2	0	58	41	54	19	4	53.0	6.96	2.113	3.23	6.71	181.7	53.1	-1.1
1902	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	3	2	0	3.0	9.00	2.333	6.00	4.20	144.9	32.2	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

1,529

6,208

5,686

737

1,724

466th-most career H

229

177th-most career 3B

RBI

799

354

361

222

308th-most career SB

.3032

178th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3473

SLG

.4047

OPS

.7520

Pitching

G (P)

141

124

105

384th-most career CG

SHO

1,038

SO (P)

591

BB allowed

659

457th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.728

WHIP

1.5539

K/9

5.12

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
1907-04-20	SF @ ATL Gameday	6	2	5	0	2	1	6	0	12
1908-09-14	LAD @ SF Gameday	5	0	5	2	1	0	4	0	9
1904-07-23	ATL @ CIN Gameday	5	5	5	2	1	0	0	1	9
1905-08-02	LAD @ CIN Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	1	1	1	9
1906-09-19	PIT @ SF Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1902-10-04	CIN @ PIT Gameday	3.0	4	3	3	3	2
1901-04-26	BOS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	BOS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	BAL @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-30	BAL @ MIN Gameday	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.