MLB / Players

John Baumgartner

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb
BornMay 29, 1931 · Birmingham, AL, USA
MLB debutApril 14, 1953
Final gameApril 21, 1953
Seasons1 (1953–1953)

Detroit Tigers 1953

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
-0.3
20.9

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1953727273500020500.185.185.185.370-18.2-0.3.172-0.3

Career totals

G
7
PA
27
AB
27
R
3
H
5
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
2
BB
0
SO
5
SB
0
BA
.1852
OBP
.1852
SLG
.1852
OPS
.3704

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1953-04-16CLE @ DET Gameday513000003
1953-04-18BAL @ DET Gameday612000102
1953-04-19BAL @ DET Gameday400000100
1953-04-14DET @ BAL Gameday300000000
1953-04-17CLE @ DET Gameday300000000

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.