Germany Schaefer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 175 lb

BornFebruary 4, 1876 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutOctober 5, 1901

Final gameApril 25, 1918

Seasons15 (1901–1918)

Chicago Orphans 1901–1902; Detroit Tigers 1905–1909; Washington Senators 1909–1914; Newark Pepper 1915; New York Yankees 1916; Cleveland Indians 1918

Percentile snapshot

1911 season — qualified batters

125

24.1

516

26.9

440

23.1

51.9

147

58.3

29.6

42.6

RBI

29.6

67.6

47.2

.334

OBP

.412

88.9

SLG

.398

58.3

OPS

.809

75.9

wRC+

129.8

82.4

OPS+

127.7

76.9

wOBA

.395

78.7

sWAR

2.7

63.9

of 109 qualified 1911 batters (min 477 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

97.1

36.1

OPS+

96.1

33.8

sWAR

13.1

89.7

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1901	2	7	5	0	3	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	.600	.714	.800	1.514	313.0	341.9	.682	0.2
1902	81	323	291	32	57	2	3	0	14	19	47	12	0	.196	.250	.223	.473	48.1	46.2	.241	-0.8
1905	153	629	554	64	135	17	9	2	47	45	91	19	0	.244	.302	.318	.619	95.1	95.3	.302	2.1
1906	124	498	446	48	106	14	3	2	43	32	57	31	0	.238	.290	.296	.586	79.6	80.2	.287	0.8
1907	109	419	372	44	96	12	3	1	32	30	34	21	0	.258	.313	.315	.628	97.7	97.4	.310	1.5
1908	153	665	584	96	151	20	10	3	52	37	75	40	0	.259	.304	.342	.646	105.1	106.9	.314	3.2
1909	124	448	408	39	101	17	1	1	26	20	61	14	0	.248	.284	.301	.586	80.0	83.6	.287	0.7
1910	74	265	229	27	63	6	5	0	14	25	44	17	0	.275	.352	.345	.697	122.5	120.8	.345	1.6
1911	125	516	440	74	147	14	7	0	45	57	42	22	0	.334	.412	.398	.809	129.8	127.7	.395	2.7
1912	60	194	166	21	41	7	3	0	19	23	19	11	6	.247	.342	.325	.667	95.3	91.7	.332	0.4
1913	54	119	100	17	32	1	1	0	7	15	12	6	0	.320	.419	.350	.769	133.4	125.4	.386	0.7
1914	30	33	29	6	7	1	0	0	2	3	5	4	1	.241	.313	.276	.588	75.9	75.8	.297	0.0
1915	59	183	154	26	33	5	3	0	8	25	11	3	0	.214	.328	.286	.613	86.7	80.9	.310	0.1
1916	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-133.2	-100.0	.000	0.0
1918	1	5	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-140.7	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1912	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0.7	0.00	1.500	0.00	2.95	89.0	—	0.4
1913	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	1	0.3	54.00	6.000	0.00	41.49	1416.1	5.4	0.7

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

1,150

4,305

3,784

496

972

117

RBI

309

333

499

201

364th-most career SB

.2569

OBP

.3191

SLG

.3203

OPS

.6394

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

18.000

WHIP

3.0000

K/9

0.00

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.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	RBI	BB	TB
1905-09-14	CLE @ DET Gameday	4	1	4	0	2	2	0	8
1908-04-17	CLE @ DET Gameday	5	2	5	1	0	2	1	6
1908-07-18	DET @ ATH Gameday	5	1	3	1	1	1	0	6
1911-07-15	MIN @ CWS Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	1	0	6
1908-07-17	DET @ ATH Gameday	5	5	4	1	0	2	2	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H
1912-10-05	MIN @ NYY Gameday	0.2	1
1901-04-19	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0
1901-04-20	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0
1901-04-21	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0
1901-04-24	CHC @ CIN Gameday	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.