MLB / Players

Frank Baldwin

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 195 lb
BornDecember 25, 1928 · High Bridge, NJ, USA
MLB debutApril 22, 1953
Final gameSeptember 5, 1953
Seasons1 (1953–1953)

Cincinnati Reds 1953

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
-0.3
21.6

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
19531621200200001900.100.143.100.243-48.6-35.7.121-0.3

Career totals

G
16
PA
21
AB
20
R
0
H
2
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
1
SO
9
SB
0
BA
.1000
OBP
.1429
SLG
.1000
OPS
.2429

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1953-05-02CIN @ PIT Gameday101000001
1953-05-23CIN @ STL Gameday301000011
1953-04-22CIN @ STL Gameday100000000
1953-05-09STL @ CIN Gameday100000000
1953-05-17LAD @ CIN Gameday000000000

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.