MLB / Players

Henry Porter

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at142 lb

Born1858 · Vergennes, VT, USA

MLB debutSeptember 27, 1884

Final gameMay 23, 1889

Seasons6 (1884–1889)

Milwaukee Brewers 1884; Brooklyn Grays 1885–1887; Kansas City Cowboys 1888–1889

Percentile snapshot

1884 season — qualified batters

2.3

2.9

3.5

1.2

4.7

7.6

RBI

32.6

.275

69.2

OBP

.275

34.9

SLG

.350

51.2

OPS

.625

47.7

wRC+

104.6

52.3

OPS+

109.9

54.1

wOBA

.284

44.8

sWAR

0.6

26.7

of 173 qualified 1884 batters (min 37 PA) · 2 stats not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

1888 season — qualified pitchers

92.3

90.4

53.8

90.4

SHO

65.4

527

219

120

7.7

145

59.6

7.7

474.0

90.4

ERA

4.16

5.8

WHIP

1.365

7.7

K/9

2.75

11.5

FIP

3.44

9.6

FIP-

112.4

13.5

ERA+

73.5

7.7

sWAR

-1.6

5.8

of 53 qualified 1888 pitchers (min 132 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

93.1

12.8

sWAR

11.2

88.1

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1884	11	40	40	3	11	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.275	.275	.350	.625	104.6	109.9	.284	0.6
1885	54	200	195	28	40	1	4	0	16	5	0	0	.205	.225	.251	.476	62.3	50.2	.222	6.8
1886	48	188	184	20	33	4	0	0	13	4	0	3	.179	.197	.201	.398	43.2	25.2	.192	3.3
1887	40	156	146	16	29	2	4	1	12	10	21	6	.199	.250	.288	.538	61.1	48.8	.258	3.6
1888	55	203	195	12	28	3	0	0	10	8	39	1	.144	.177	.159	.336	30.5	7.9	.167	-1.6
1889	4	11	10	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	3	0	.100	.182	.100	.282	12.4	-19.0	.156	-1.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1884	6	6	3	3	6	1	32	17	9	71	1	51.0	3.00	.804	12.53	1.67	54.8	101.4	0.6
1885	54	54	33	21	53	2	427	149	107	197	11	481.7	2.78	1.109	3.68	3.33	102.7	116.5	6.8
1886	48	48	27	19	48	1	439	161	120	163	8	424.0	3.42	1.318	3.46	3.48	101.1	100.7	3.3
1887	40	40	15	24	38	1	416	159	96	74	7	339.7	4.21	1.507	1.96	4.19	97.7	101.8	3.6
1888	55	54	18	37	53	4	527	219	120	145	16	474.0	4.16	1.365	2.75	3.44	112.4	73.5	-1.6
1889	4	4	0	3	3	0	52	32	14	9	0	23.0	12.52	2.870	3.52	4.19	109.1	30.7	-1.6

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

212

798

770

142

RBI

.1844

OBP

.2130

SLG

.2260

OPS

.4390

Pitching

G (P)

207

206

107

474th-most career L

201

134th-most career CG

SHO

1,793

SO (P)

659

BB allowed

466

ERA

3.699

WHIP

1.3154

K/9

3.31

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.