Frank Bowerman
Baltimore Orioles 1895–1898; Pittsburgh Pirates 1898–1899; New York Giants 1900–1907; Boston Doves 1908–1909
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
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1895 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -74.4 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1896 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .176 | .125 | .301 | -2.5 | -19.8 | .157 | -0.2 |
| 1897 | 38 | 134 | 130 | 16 | 41 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 0 | .315 | .331 | .377 | .708 | 85.3 | 86.4 | .333 | 0.4 |
| 1898 | 74 | 271 | 257 | 22 | 73 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 0 | .284 | .313 | .335 | .648 | 84.1 | 85.8 | .314 | 0.8 |
| 1899 | 110 | 457 | 427 | 51 | 111 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 53 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 0 | .260 | .288 | .365 | .654 | 76.5 | 78.5 | .309 | 0.5 |
| 1900 | 80 | 282 | 270 | 25 | 65 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 42 | 6 | 22 | 10 | 0 | .241 | .268 | .293 | .560 | 56.2 | 54.6 | .268 | -0.1 |
| 1901 | 59 | 203 | 191 | 20 | 38 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 23 | 3 | 0 | .199 | .235 | .257 | .492 | 43.7 | 42.7 | .237 | -0.3 |
| 1902 | 109 | 392 | 373 | 38 | 93 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 27 | 13 | 30 | 12 | 0 | .249 | .276 | .319 | .596 | 80.0 | 83.7 | .290 | 1.3 |
| 1903 | 64 | 223 | 210 | 22 | 58 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 31 | 6 | 21 | 5 | 0 | .276 | .306 | .338 | .644 | 80.6 | 82.3 | .309 | 0.6 |
| 1904 | 93 | 319 | 289 | 38 | 67 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 27 | 16 | 20 | 7 | 0 | .232 | .288 | .318 | .607 | 86.3 | 86.6 | .295 | 1.1 |
| 1905 | 98 | 327 | 297 | 37 | 80 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 41 | 12 | 19 | 6 | 0 | .269 | .322 | .333 | .655 | 95.1 | 95.4 | .318 | 1.5 |
| 1906 | 92 | 310 | 285 | 23 | 65 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 42 | 15 | 18 | 5 | 0 | .228 | .274 | .284 | .558 | 70.5 | 74.0 | .277 | 0.4 |
| 1907 | 96 | 347 | 311 | 31 | 81 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 17 | 28 | 11 | 0 | .260 | .309 | .299 | .608 | 87.4 | 89.1 | .303 | 1.0 |
| 1908 | 86 | 274 | 254 | 16 | 58 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 13 | 15 | 4 | 0 | .228 | .274 | .280 | .554 | 72.2 | 75.5 | .272 | 0.6 |
| 1909 | 33 | 102 | 99 | 6 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .212 | .228 | .232 | .460 | 28.5 | 38.5 | .225 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 9.00 | 4.000 | 0.00 | 5.33 | 194.8 | 30.4 | 1.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905-07-20 | STL @ SF Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1902-05-13 | SF @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1905-07-22 | STL @ SF Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1907-05-04 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1906-05-18 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904-09-23 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 1.0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-19 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-26 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-27 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-29 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.