Don Kaiser
Chicago Cubs 1955–1957
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 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.5 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1956 | 27 | 48 | 47 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 | .043 | .042 | .043 | .084 | -102.1 | -77.2 | .038 | 1.3 |
| 1957 | 20 | 21 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .105 | .143 | .105 | .248 | -45.0 | -31.7 | .121 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 11 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 18.3 | 5.40 | 1.364 | 5.40 | 3.51 | 85.6 | 75.8 | -0.1 |
| 1956 | 27 | 22 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 144 | 60 | 52 | 74 | 15 | 150.3 | 3.59 | 1.304 | 4.43 | 3.60 | 95.6 | 104.9 | 1.3 |
| 1957 | 20 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 91 | 40 | 28 | 23 | 4 | 72.0 | 5.00 | 1.653 | 2.88 | 3.76 | 96.7 | 77.8 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-06-16 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1956-07-12 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1956-09-25 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1956-07-27 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957-05-06 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956-07-17 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
| 1956-08-03 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 7.1 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 4 |
| 1956-09-15 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 7.0 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1956-06-02 | LAD @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| 1956-07-01 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 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.