George Bechtel

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb

BornSeptember 2, 1848 · Philadelphia, PA, USA

MLB debutMay 20, 1871

Final gameAugust 19, 1876

Seasons6 (1871–1876)

Philadelphia Athletics 1871; New York Mutuals 1872; Philadelphia Whites 1873–1874; Philadelphia Athletics 1875; Philadelphia Centennials 1875; Louisville Grays 1876; New York Mutuals 1876

Percentile snapshot

1873 season — qualified batters

67.1

267

75.7

258

74.3

61.4

48.6

82.9

24.3

57.1

RBI

74.3

87.1

41.4

.244

18.6

OBP

.270

24.3

SLG

.310

OPS

.580

24.3

wRC+

84.3

25.7

OPS+

70.9

24.3

wOBA

.268

25.7

sWAR

0.2

21.4

of 71 qualified 1873 batters (min 164 PA)

1875 season — qualified pitchers

38.1

42.9

52.4

42.9

SHO

210

61.9

52.4

61.9

28.6

61.9

162.0

42.9

ERA

2.67

28.6

WHIP

1.346

K/9

0.50

28.6

FIP

2.28

38.1

FIP-

102.3

38.1

ERA+

83.5

28.6

sWAR

1.8

42.9

of 22 qualified 1875 pitchers (min 77 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.9

76.6

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

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1871	20	96	94	24	33	9	1	1	21	2	2	4	0	.351	.365	.500	.865	122.7	145.1	.381	0.2
1872	51	254	247	61	74	11	3	0	42	7	3	9	1	.300	.319	.368	.687	106.0	111.0	.317	0.8
1873	53	267	258	53	63	12	1	1	39	9	1	2	1	.244	.270	.310	.580	84.3	70.9	.268	0.2
1874	32	153	151	29	42	4	5	1	34	2	1	0	0	.278	.288	.391	.678	108.3	114.8	.308	1.1
1875	49	227	225	45	63	11	2	0	27	2	4	2	0	.280	.286	.347	.633	110.4	117.6	.288	1.8
1876	16	65	65	4	13	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	.200	.200	.215	.415	58.5	38.0	.192	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1871	3	3	1	2	2	43	23	11	1	26.0	7.96	2.077	0.35	4.77	113.1	53.0	0.2
1873	3	2	0	2	1	27	8	2	0	16.0	4.50	1.813	0.00	3.48	102.3	75.5	0.2
1874	6	4	1	3	4	57	7	1	0	39.0	1.62	1.487	0.00	2.14	97.8	135.6	1.1
1875	18	18	5	13	18	210	48	8	9	162.0	2.67	1.346	0.50	2.28	102.3	83.5	1.8

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

221

1,062

1,040

216

288

RBI

165

.2769

OBP

.2919

SLG

.3548

OPS

.6467

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

243

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

3.185

WHIP

1.4774

K/9

0.37

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.