MLB / Players

George Rettger

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb
BornJuly 29, 1868 · Cleveland, OH, USA
MLB debutAugust 13, 1891
Final gameJuly 16, 1892
Seasons2 (1891–1892)

St. Louis Browns 1891; Cincinnati Reds 1892; Cleveland Spiders 1892

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
1.0
63.4

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
189115484253001251010.071.188.143.33019.8-5.5.1831.0
1892827231310034400.130.259.174.43351.930.8.2360.0

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1891141273110185355149492.73.401.4684.764.07109.8109.11.0
1892762304040224113247.04.211.7232.495.18157.778.00.0

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
23
PA
75
AB
65
R
6
H
6
2B
1
3B
0
HR
1
RBI
5
BB
9
SO
14
SB
1
BA
.0923
OBP
.2133
SLG
.1538
OPS
.3671

Pitching

G (P)
21
GS
18
W
9
L
6
SV
1
CG
14
SHO
1
IP
140
SO (P)
62
BB allowed
92
ERA
3.673
WHIP
1.5537
K/9
4.00

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.