Elmer Koestner
Cleveland Naps 1910; Chicago Cubs 1914; Cincinnati Reds 1914
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | 27 | 54 | 48 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 0 | .313 | .313 | .333 | .646 | 94.3 | 100.5 | .310 | 0.8 |
| 1914 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .500 | .833 | 137.4 | 142.4 | .386 | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | 27 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 145 | 49 | 63 | 44 | 0 | 145.0 | 3.04 | 1.434 | 2.73 | 3.07 | 120.0 | 84.1 | 0.8 |
| 1914 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 24.7 | 4.01 | 1.500 | 4.38 | 2.87 | 100.2 | 71.2 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910-10-06 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1910-09-06 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1910-07-16 | CLE @ NYY Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1910-07-26 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1914-06-19 | CIN @ SF Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910-09-11 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 0 |
| 1910-06-21 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 10.0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| 1910-08-01 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 8.0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1910-07-20 | CLE @ MIN Gameday | 7.0 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1910-08-10 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 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.