Happy Townsend
Philadelphia Phillies 1901; Washington Senators 1902–1905; Cleveland Naps 1906
Percentile snapshot
1905 season — qualified pitchers
of 85 qualified 1905 pitchers (min 154 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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 | 19 | 65 | 64 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 0 | .109 | .123 | .156 | .279 | -21.6 | -20.2 | .133 | 0.9 |
| 1902 | 27 | 91 | 87 | 11 | 23 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 0 | .264 | .273 | .356 | .629 | 68.2 | 71.7 | .289 | 0.6 |
| 1903 | 20 | 47 | 44 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .045 | .106 | .045 | .152 | -49.4 | -53.6 | .087 | -1.9 |
| 1904 | 38 | 122 | 119 | 6 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 34 | 0 | 0 | .168 | .189 | .227 | .415 | 20.5 | 28.8 | .197 | -0.9 |
| 1905 | 34 | 94 | 83 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 32 | 1 | 0 | .181 | .244 | .241 | .485 | 55.9 | 54.6 | .242 | 2.7 |
| 1906 | 17 | 32 | 30 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .161 | .133 | .295 | -11.5 | -7.0 | .148 | 0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 19 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 118 | 55 | 64 | 72 | 3 | 143.7 | 3.45 | 1.267 | 4.51 | 3.65 | 107.4 | 98.5 | 0.9 |
| 1902 | 27 | 26 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 233 | 109 | 89 | 71 | 12 | 220.3 | 4.45 | 1.461 | 2.90 | 4.26 | 117.3 | 81.5 | 0.6 |
| 1903 | 20 | 13 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 145 | 67 | 48 | 54 | 3 | 126.7 | 4.76 | 1.524 | 3.84 | 3.58 | 118.9 | 63.3 | -1.9 |
| 1904 | 36 | 34 | 5 | 26 | 0 | 31 | 2 | 319 | 116 | 100 | 143 | 3 | 291.3 | 3.58 | 1.438 | 4.42 | 2.78 | 103.7 | 74.8 | -0.9 |
| 1905 | 34 | 24 | 7 | 16 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 247 | 77 | 84 | 102 | 2 | 263.0 | 2.63 | 1.259 | 3.49 | 2.91 | 110.8 | 99.7 | 2.7 |
| 1906 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 92 | 30 | 31 | 31 | 1 | 92.7 | 2.91 | 1.327 | 3.01 | 3.15 | 118.2 | 91.3 | 0.4 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902-04-30 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1902-09-22 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1901-08-09 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1904-08-30 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1904-06-14 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904-10-08 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 0 |
| 1904-09-30 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 8.0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 0 |
| 1901-08-05 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 11.0 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 1905-05-03 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 11.0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 0 |
| 1901-09-21 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 10.0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 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.