Elmer Foster
New York Metropolitans 1886; New York Giants 1888–1889; Chicago Colts 1890–1891
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1886 | 35 | 134 | 125 | 16 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .184 | .239 | .200 | .439 | 57.0 | 38.5 | .220 | -0.3 |
| 1888 | 37 | 148 | 136 | 15 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 20 | 13 | 0 | .147 | .216 | .199 | .415 | 47.4 | 32.6 | .204 | -0.5 |
| 1889 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .000 | .429 | .000 | .429 | 91.8 | 24.0 | .329 | 0.0 |
| 1890 | 27 | 117 | 105 | 20 | 26 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 23 | 9 | 21 | 18 | 0 | .248 | .325 | .467 | .791 | 118.7 | 129.6 | .372 | 0.7 |
| 1891 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .188 | .235 | .375 | .610 | 74.7 | 76.6 | .285 | 0.0 |
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.