MLB / Players

Frank Isbell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 190 lb

BornAugust 21, 1875 · Delevan, NY, USA

MLB debutMay 1, 1898

Final gameOctober 3, 1909

Seasons10 (1898–1909)

Chicago Orphans 1898; Chicago White Sox 1901–1909

Percentile snapshot

1907 season — qualified batters

125

536

486

118

RBI

.243

OBP

.281

SLG

.311

OPS

.592

wRC+

91.3

OPS+

93.8

wOBA

.289

sWAR

1.5

of 101 qualified 1907 batters (min 486 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

88.3

OPS+

91.0

24.5

sWAR

5.7

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1898	45	169	159	17	37	4	0	0	8	3	13	3	.233	.252	.258	.509	47.1	45.7	.248	0.3
1901	137	612	556	93	143	15	8	3	70	36	37	52	.257	.311	.329	.640	83.1	79.7	.305	-0.4
1902	137	555	515	62	130	14	4	4	59	14	28	38	.252	.276	.318	.595	67.9	68.1	.278	-1.3
1903	138	586	546	52	132	25	9	2	59	12	65	26	.242	.266	.332	.597	80.5	82.4	.276	-0.4
1904	96	351	314	27	66	10	3	1	34	16	37	19	.210	.255	.271	.526	68.9	70.1	.254	-0.6
1905	94	389	341	55	101	21	11	2	45	15	28	15	.296	.335	.440	.775	146.4	152.6	.367	3.2
1906	143	617	549	71	153	18	11	0	57	30	34	37	.279	.324	.352	.676	114.2	115.5	.327	3.4
1907	125	536	486	60	118	19	7	0	41	22	36	22	.243	.281	.311	.592	91.3	93.8	.289	1.5
1908	84	360	320	31	79	15	3	1	49	19	40	18	.247	.297	.322	.619	103.5	104.8	.303	0.8
1909	120	477	433	33	97	17	6	0	33	23	34	23	.224	.265	.291	.556	77.0	80.5	.272	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1898	13	9	4	7	0	7	86	32	42	16	81.0	3.56	1.580	1.78	4.19	116.2	101.3	0.3
1901	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	1.0	9.00	2.000	0.00	2.92	81.7	39.6	-0.4
1902	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	1	4.0	2.25	1.000	2.25	3.06	89.6	151.6	-1.3
1906	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	2.0	0.00	.500	9.00	0.48	18.4	—	3.4
1907	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	0.00	.000	0.00	2.34	97.3	—	1.5

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

1,119

4,652

4,219

501

1,056

158

RBI

455

190

352

253

236th-most career SB

.2503

OBP

.2892

SLG

.3264

OPS

.6156

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

3.464

WHIP

1.5283

K/9

1.94

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	TB
1906-10-13	CWS @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	4	0	0	2	8
1902-05-26	CWS @ BAL Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	1	2	8
1905-09-26	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	1	3	7
1901-05-18	BAL @ CWS Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	4	7
1905-09-27	CWS @ BOS Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	0	4	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1906-10-07	DET @ CWS Gameday	2.0	1	0	0	0	2
1902-09-28	CWS @ BAL Gameday	1.0	3	2	1	1	1
1901-06-12	CWS @ BAL Gameday	1.0	2	1	1	0	0
1907-10-06	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.1	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-24	CLE @ CWS Gameday	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.