Don Gross
Cincinnati Redlegs 1955–1957; Pittsburgh Pirates 1958–1960
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 17 | 23 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .158 | .200 | .158 | .358 | -13.2 | -5.1 | .173 | 0.6 |
| 1956 | 19 | 21 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .105 | .190 | .105 | .296 | -25.6 | -19.2 | .156 | 2.3 |
| 1957 | 43 | 54 | 46 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 1 | .109 | .125 | .152 | .277 | -47.3 | -27.6 | .125 | 0.8 |
| 1958 | 40 | 20 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .056 | .105 | .056 | .161 | -69.3 | -55.0 | .087 | 0.5 |
| 1959 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -124.4 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 79 | 31 | 16 | 33 | 11 | 67.3 | 4.14 | 1.411 | 4.41 | 4.21 | 99.8 | 101.8 | 0.6 |
| 1956 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 69 | 15 | 20 | 47 | 4 | 69.3 | 1.95 | 1.284 | 6.10 | 2.54 | 64.0 | 203.6 | 2.3 |
| 1957 | 43 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 152 | 71 | 33 | 73 | 21 | 148.3 | 4.31 | 1.247 | 4.43 | 4.10 | 100.3 | 94.8 | 0.8 |
| 1958 | 40 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 33 | 38 | 59 | 5 | 74.7 | 3.98 | 1.406 | 7.11 | 3.36 | 87.6 | 96.5 | 0.5 |
| 1959 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 33.0 | 3.55 | 1.152 | 4.09 | 3.90 | 100.8 | 109.0 | 0.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5.3 | 3.38 | .938 | 5.06 | 3.96 | 105.8 | 110.9 | 0.1 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-08-16 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1955-08-17 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1958-07-19 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1955-08-10 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1956-07-01 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958-06-29 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 7.1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
| 1956-07-29 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 7.0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1956-09-23 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 10.0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 1955-08-17 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 9.0 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
| 1957-05-23 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 8.2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
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.