John Briggs
Chicago Cubs 1956–1958; Cleveland Indians 1959–1960; Kansas City Athletics 1960
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.2 |
| 1957 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
| 1958 | 20 | 36 | 35 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .257 | .257 | .343 | .600 | 51.5 | 58.2 | .266 | 0.5 |
| 1959 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -120.1 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.3 |
| 1960 | 29 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .182 | -70.8 | -49.9 | .084 | -1.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5.3 | 1.69 | 1.688 | 1.69 | 8.23 | 218.6 | 223.2 | 0.2 |
| 1957 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4.3 | 12.46 | 2.308 | 2.08 | 10.13 | 260.4 | 31.2 | -0.4 |
| 1958 | 20 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 99 | 48 | 45 | 46 | 12 | 95.7 | 4.52 | 1.505 | 4.33 | 4.62 | 117.8 | 86.8 | 0.5 |
| 1959 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 12.7 | 2.13 | 1.184 | 3.55 | 3.41 | 91.2 | 175.4 | 0.3 |
| 1960 | 29 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 34 | 27 | 27 | 7 | 47.7 | 6.42 | 1.636 | 5.10 | 4.94 | 128.3 | 59.6 | -1.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958-08-06 | LAD @ CHC Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1958-09-06 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1958-07-24 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1958-07-13 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1958-08-02 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958-06-24 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1958-07-13 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1958-07-18 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| 1958-09-19 | LAD @ CHC Gameday | 6.0 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| 1958-06-14 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 4.2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 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.