Frank Foreman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 160 lb

BornMay 1, 1863 · Baltimore, MD, USA

MLB debutMay 15, 1884

Final gameMay 10, 1902

Seasons11 (1884–1902)

Chicago/Pittsburgh (Union League) 1884; Kansas City Cowboys 1884; Baltimore Orioles 1885; Baltimore Orioles 1889; Cincinnati Reds 1890–1891; Washington Statesmen 1891; Baltimore Orioles 1892; Washington Senators 1892; New York Giants 1893; Cincinnati Reds 1895–1896; Baltimore Orioles 1901; Boston Americans 1901; Baltimore Orioles 1902

Percentile snapshot

1901 season — qualified pitchers

16.7

19.7

28.8

92.4

66.7

18.2

SHO

24.2

233

72.7

59.1

6.1

71.2

199.3

21.2

ERA

3.88

24.2

WHIP

1.470

15.2

K/9

1.90

6.1

FIP

3.71

21.2

FIP-

100.7

33.3

ERA+

95.1

33.3

sWAR

2.0

33.3

of 67 qualified 1901 pitchers (min 138 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

98.0

29.9

sWAR

17.1

92.2

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1884	4	14	14	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.071	.071	.071	.143	2.4	-51.6	.066	-0.3
1885	3	14	14	4	4	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	.286	.286	.429	.714	113.4	123.3	.324	-0.4
1889	54	194	181	18	26	2	1	1	11	12	35	7	.144	.201	.182	.383	30.1	9.3	.193	4.4
1890	25	87	75	13	10	1	3	1	7	10	13	0	.133	.253	.267	.520	62.8	51.3	.263	1.2
1891	51	184	157	26	35	5	5	4	19	23	35	6	.223	.337	.395	.732	105.9	108.8	.358	4.3
1892	18	57	51	7	17	3	3	1	4	6	6	1	.333	.404	.569	.972	169.8	192.0	.455	0.7
1893	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-73.7	-100.0	.000	-1.1
1895	32	101	94	14	29	7	0	2	11	4	14	1	.309	.350	.447	.797	100.7	104.4	.370	3.8
1896	27	83	74	9	18	2	0	0	8	4	6	2	.243	.282	.270	.552	53.1	45.9	.268	2.4
1901	25	88	84	12	26	2	2	0	10	3	7	1	.310	.333	.381	.714	95.3	96.9	.334	2.0
1902	2	7	7	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	.429	.429	.571	1.000	163.5	169.1	.458	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1884	4	4	1	3	0	2	0	40	13	4	15	0	26.0	4.50	1.692	5.19	2.97	97.8	67.6	-0.3
1885	3	3	2	1	0	2	0	33	18	9	11	0	27.0	6.00	1.556	3.67	3.38	104.3	54.1	-0.4
1889	51	48	23	21	0	43	5	364	162	137	180	8	414.0	3.52	1.210	3.91	3.68	95.8	109.1	4.4
1890	25	24	13	10	0	20	0	201	87	89	57	6	198.3	3.95	1.462	2.59	4.13	116.0	90.2	1.2
1891	43	41	18	20	1	39	1	381	143	142	170	9	345.3	3.73	1.514	4.43	3.62	97.6	99.5	4.3
1892	15	10	2	7	0	6	0	93	41	48	21	7	85.0	4.34	1.659	2.22	4.92	149.7	75.7	0.7
1893	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	19	17	10	0	1	5.7	27.00	5.118	0.00	11.36	243.8	17.3	-1.1
1895	32	27	11	14	1	19	0	253	100	92	55	11	219.0	4.11	1.575	2.26	5.20	108.9	116.1	3.8
1896	27	22	14	7	1	17	0	212	82	62	33	2	185.7	3.97	1.476	1.60	4.21	96.5	109.7	2.4
1901	25	23	12	7	1	19	1	233	86	60	42	3	199.3	3.88	1.470	1.90	3.71	100.7	95.1	2.0
1902	2	2	0	2	0	2	0	28	11	6	2	0	16.3	6.06	2.082	1.10	3.66	98.1	61.6	-0.1

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

243

832

754

104

169

RBI

116

.2241

OBP

.2909

SLG

.3302

OPS

.6211

Pitching

G (P)

229

205

169

188th-most career CG

SHO

1,722

SO (P)

586

BB allowed

659

457th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.973

WHIP

1.4614

K/9

3.06

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	RBI	TB
1901-09-13	ATH @ BAL Gameday	4	3	4	1	1	3	7
1901-06-24	DET @ BAL Gameday	4	0	1	0	1	1	3
1901-08-07	BOS @ BAL Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	2
1901-08-10	BAL @ BOS Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	1	2
1901-06-12	CWS @ BAL Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1901-08-10	BAL @ BOS Gameday	9.0	8	3	3	0	4
1901-08-30	BAL @ CWS Gameday	9.0	11	5	3	3	4
1901-07-20	BAL @ BAL Gameday	7.0	16	11	11	3	4
1901-08-27	BAL @ BAL Gameday	11.0	10	5	0	1	3
1901-07-31	MIN @ BAL Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	1	3

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.