George Yeager
Boston Beaneaters 1896–1899; Cleveland Blues 1901; Pittsburgh Pirates 1901; Baltimore Orioles 1902; New York Giants 1902
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | 13.8 | 5.6 | .190 | -0.1 |
| 1897 | 30 | 105 | 95 | 20 | 23 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 0 | .242 | .294 | .389 | .684 | 78.6 | 79.5 | .320 | 0.1 |
| 1898 | 68 | 244 | 221 | 37 | 59 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 16 | 14 | 1 | 0 | .267 | .328 | .376 | .703 | 99.2 | 101.0 | .341 | 0.9 |
| 1899 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .222 | .125 | .347 | 14.0 | -3.9 | .192 | -0.1 |
| 1901 | 65 | 246 | 230 | 22 | 55 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 8 | 24 | 3 | 0 | .239 | .271 | .278 | .549 | 59.2 | 56.3 | .263 | -0.1 |
| 1902 | 50 | 164 | 146 | 9 | 29 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 1 | 0 | .199 | .264 | .233 | .497 | 51.5 | 49.6 | .252 | -0.1 |
Career totals
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 | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902-04-17 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1901-06-20 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 1901-08-07 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1901-09-05 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1901-09-06 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901-04-24 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-25 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-27 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-28 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-29 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 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.