MLB / Players

Cy Swaim

Listed at6 ft 6 in · 180 lb

BornMarch 11, 1874 · Cadwallader, OH, USA

MLB debutMay 3, 1897

Final gameJuly 21, 1898

Seasons2 (1897–1898)

Washington Senators 1897–1898

Percentile snapshot

1897 season — qualified pitchers

37.7

28.3

32.1

43.4

32.1

SHO

219

67.9

58.5

64.2

41.5

45.3

184.0

30.2

ERA

4.60

30.2

WHIP

1.511

45.3

K/9

2.54

62.3

FIP

4.23

47.2

FIP-

98.4

47.2

ERA+

93.6

30.2

sWAR

1.1

of 54 qualified 1897 pitchers (min 133 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

1.1

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
1897	26	73	71	7	16	1	0	0	9	1	10	3	0	.225	.236	.239	.476	31.4	25.6	.227	1.1
1898	16	35	35	2	5	0	0	0	4	0	6	0	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	-14.4	-18.2	.138	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1897	26	19	9	11	0	14	0	219	94	59	52	5	184.0	4.60	1.511	2.54	4.23	98.4	93.6	1.1
1898	16	13	3	11	1	9	0	119	48	28	30	4	101.3	4.26	1.451	2.66	3.64	100.9	84.5	0.0

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

108

106

RBI

.1981

OBP

.2056

SLG

.2075

OPS

.4131

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

285

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

4.479

WHIP

1.4895

K/9

2.59

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.