MLB / Players

Honus Wagner

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 200 lb

BornFebruary 24, 1874 · Chartiers, PA, USA

MLB debutJuly 19, 1897

Final gameSeptember 17, 1917

Seasons21 (1897–1917)

Louisville Colonels 1897–1899; Pittsburgh Pirates 1900–1917

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified batters

156

92.7

625

71.5

566

84.8

62.4

155

93.9

95.2

90.9

RBI

90.9

49.1

9.1

64.8

23.6

.274

53.3

OBP

.325

35.8

SLG

.422

78.2

OPS

.747

69.7

wRC+

125.3

72.1

OPS+

127.6

73.9

wOBA

.352

59.4

sWAR

4.7

92.7

of 166 qualified 1915 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

149.2

98.2

OPS+

153.0

98.2

sWAR

120.5

100

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
1897	62	263	242	38	81	18	4	2	39	15	14	20	0	.335	.376	.467	.843	116.0	121.6	.394	1.5
1898	151	635	588	80	176	29	3	10	105	31	20	27	0	.299	.341	.410	.751	109.6	114.4	.360	2.4
1899	148	630	575	100	196	45	13	7	114	40	36	37	0	.341	.395	.501	.895	136.5	144.6	.421	5.0
1900	135	580	527	107	201	45	22	4	100	41	17	38	0	.381	.434	.573	1.007	164.9	176.7	.467	6.4
1901	140	619	549	101	194	37	11	6	126	53	39	49	0	.353	.417	.494	.911	159.5	164.5	.428	6.7
1902	136	599	534	105	176	30	16	3	91	43	51	42	0	.330	.394	.463	.857	160.3	163.7	.415	6.4
1903	129	571	512	97	182	30	19	5	101	44	17	46	0	.355	.414	.518	.931	156.0	163.9	.439	6.4
1904	132	558	490	97	171	44	14	4	75	59	44	53	0	.349	.423	.520	.944	183.4	189.1	.446	8.5
1905	147	616	548	114	199	32	14	6	101	54	53	57	0	.363	.427	.505	.932	173.9	177.5	.442	8.6
1906	142	590	516	103	175	38	9	2	71	58	31	53	0	.339	.416	.459	.875	171.6	170.0	.426	8.1
1907	142	580	515	98	180	38	14	6	82	46	40	61	0	.350	.408	.513	.921	188.5	188.4	.442	9.0
1908	151	641	568	100	201	39	19	10	109	54	22	53	0	.354	.415	.542	.957	206.4	205.8	.453	11.4
1909	137	591	495	92	168	39	10	5	100	66	24	35	0	.339	.420	.489	.909	181.5	181.9	.438	8.5
1910	150	640	556	90	178	34	8	4	81	59	47	24	0	.320	.390	.432	.822	137.2	137.1	.397	5.7
1911	130	558	473	87	158	23	16	9	89	67	34	20	0	.334	.423	.507	.930	157.0	159.4	.438	6.1
1912	145	634	558	91	181	35	20	7	102	59	38	26	0	.324	.395	.496	.891	143.5	147.1	.416	6.3
1913	114	454	413	51	124	18	4	3	56	26	40	21	0	.300	.349	.385	.734	113.9	114.9	.348	2.8
1914	150	616	552	60	139	15	9	1	50	51	51	23	0	.252	.317	.317	.634	93.7	93.4	.310	2.4
1915	156	625	566	68	155	32	17	6	78	39	64	22	15	.274	.325	.422	.747	125.3	127.6	.352	4.7
1916	123	484	432	45	124	15	9	1	39	34	36	11	0	.287	.350	.370	.721	122.0	118.9	.345	3.2
1917	74	264	230	15	61	7	1	0	24	24	17	5	0	.265	.337	.304	.642	98.0	94.4	.315	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
1900	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	4	1	0	3.0	0.00	2.333	3.00	6.16	166.7	—	6.4
1902	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	2	5	0	5.3	0.00	1.125	8.44	1.78	64.0	—	6.4

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

2,794

26th-most career G

11,748

25th-most career PA

10,439

21st-most career AB

1,739

24th-most career R

3,420

8th-most career H

643

10th-most career 2B

252

3rd-most career 3B

101

RBI

1,733

24th-most career RBI

963

144th-most career BB

735

723

10th-most career SB

.3276

45th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3911

112th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4665

318th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8576

162nd-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

1.5600

K/9

6.48

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	TB
1912-08-22	SF @ PIT Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	4	10
1910-08-22	PHI @ PIT Gameday	4	1	4	3	0	1	2	10
1903-06-30	PIT @ LAD Gameday	6	3	4	0	1	1	4	9
1906-08-07	PIT @ ATL Gameday	5	3	5	0	0	1	2	8
1907-06-10	LAD @ PIT Gameday	5	4	5	1	1	0	2	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	BB	SO
1902-09-05	PIT @ ATL Gameday	5.1	4	2	2	5
1901-04-20	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-23	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-24	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	STL @ PIT Gameday	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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1936 (BBWAA)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.