Dave Zearfoss
New York Giants 1896–1898; St. Louis Cardinals 1904–1905
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 | 19 | 66 | 60 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | .217 | .288 | .267 | .555 | 56.2 | 46.6 | .275 | 0.0 |
| 1897 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .300 | .300 | .500 | .800 | 99.9 | 109.0 | .362 | 0.1 |
| 1898 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 446.3 | 472.4 | .963 | 0.1 |
| 1904 | 27 | 90 | 80 | 7 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .213 | .300 | .238 | .538 | 75.8 | 68.3 | .275 | 0.3 |
| 1905 | 20 | 57 | 51 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .157 | .218 | .196 | .414 | 27.4 | 24.8 | .210 | -0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904-07-06 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1905-06-08 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1904-07-12 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1904-06-18 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1904-07-29 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904-04-15 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1904-04-16 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1904-04-17 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1904-04-18 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1904-04-19 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 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.