MLB / Players

George Blackburn

HandednessThrows Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 184 lb
BornSeptember 21, 1869 · Ozark, MO, USA
MLB debutJuly 6, 1897
Final gameJuly 24, 1897
Seasons1 (1897–1897)

Baltimore Orioles 1897

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
-0.6
12.1

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
1897513131100000200.077.077.077.154-46.8-59.4.073-0.6

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
189754220303425121233.06.821.3940.275.23121.663.1-0.6

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

G
5
PA
13
AB
13
R
1
H
1
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
2
SB
0
BA
.0769
OBP
.0769
SLG
.0769
OPS
.1538

Pitching

G (P)
5
GS
4
W
2
L
2
SV
0
CG
3
SHO
0
IP
33
SO (P)
1
BB allowed
12
ERA
6.818
WHIP
1.3939
K/9
0.27

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.