MLB / Players

Elmer Horton

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 9 in · 157 lb
BornSeptember 4, 1866 · Hamilton, OH, USA
MLB debutSeptember 24, 1896
Final gameApril 18, 1898
Seasons2 (1896–1898)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1896; Brooklyn Bridegrooms 1898

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
-1.2
4.5

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
18962771000000100.000.000.000.000-80.9-100.0.000-0.7
18981440100000100.250.250.250.50043.243.1.241-0.5

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
18962202020221693015.09.602.0671.804.89112.245.4-0.7
1898110101016106009.010.002.4440.004.77132.336.0-0.5

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

G
3
PA
11
AB
11
R
1
H
1
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
2
SB
0
BA
.0909
OBP
.0909
SLG
.0909
OPS
.1818

Pitching

G (P)
3
GS
3
W
0
L
3
SV
0
CG
3
SHO
0
IP
24
SO (P)
3
BB allowed
15
ERA
9.750
WHIP
2.2083
K/9
1.13

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.