MLB / Players

Jim Gardner

HandednessThrows Right

BornOctober 4, 1873 · Pittsburgh, PA, USA

MLB debutJune 20, 1895

Final gameMay 23, 1902

Seasons5 (1895–1902)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1895; Pittsburgh Pirates 1897–1899; Chicago Orphans 1902

Percentile snapshot

1898 season — qualified pitchers

10.4

18.8

54.2

14.6

SHO

39.6

179

89.6

16.7

62.5

185.3

10.4

ERA

3.21

58.3

WHIP

1.225

81.3

K/9

1.99

33.3

FIP

3.44

60.4

FIP-

95.5

60.4

ERA+

112.4

59.6

sWAR

2.4

37.5

of 49 qualified 1898 pitchers (min 152 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.3

77.6

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
1895	11	37	34	5	9	2	0	0	3	3	6	1	.265	.324	.324	.648	73.8	67.2	.313	2.4
1897	27	89	76	13	12	2	1	1	8	9	11	3	.158	.264	.250	.514	48.0	36.1	.260	0.1
1898	35	107	91	8	14	0	0	0	3	14	16	1	.154	.267	.154	.421	38.4	21.0	.232	2.4
1899	6	15	13	3	3	1	0	0	0	1	4	0	.231	.333	.308	.641	83.0	76.1	.321	-0.8
1902	3	11	10	0	2	0	0	0	2	1	3	0	.200	.273	.200	.473	52.3	46.2	.247	0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1895	11	10	8	2	8	0	99	25	27	31	1	85.3	2.64	1.477	3.27	4.17	87.3	181.0	2.4
1897	14	11	5	5	8	0	115	55	32	35	4	95.3	5.19	1.542	3.30	4.42	102.8	82.8	0.1
1898	25	22	10	13	19	1	179	66	48	41	3	185.3	3.21	1.225	1.99	3.44	95.5	112.4	2.4
1899	6	3	1	0	0	0	52	27	13	2	1	32.3	7.52	2.010	0.56	4.42	114.9	51.2	-0.8
1902	3	3	1	2	2	0	23	8	10	6	0	25.0	2.88	1.320	2.16	3.25	117.4	96.1	0.2

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

259

224

RBI

.1786

OBP

.2784

SLG

.2232

OPS

.5016

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

423

SO (P)

115

BB allowed

130

ERA

3.848

WHIP

1.4126

K/9

2.44

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	H	RBI	BB	TB
1902-04-19	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	1	2	1	1
1902-05-23	PHI @ CHC Gameday	3	1	0	0	1
1902-04-17	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
1902-04-18	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
1902-04-20	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1902-05-23	PHI @ CHC Gameday	9.0	10	5	4	4	3
1902-04-19	CHC @ CIN Gameday	7.0	10	4	2	3	2
1902-05-17	ATL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	3	3	2	7	1
1902-04-17	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1902-04-18	CHC @ CIN Gameday	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.