John Cason

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 172 lb

BornFebruary 9, 1895 · Norfolk, VA, USA

Seasons11 (1918–1928)

Brooklyn Royal Giants 1918–1919; Hilldale Club 1920; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1921–1927; Atlantic City Bacharach Giants 1928; New York Lincoln Giants 1928

Percentile snapshot

1928 season — qualified batters

24.1

121

22.1

104

22.1

13.1

22.6

19.1

RBI

18.1

27.6

57.3

31.7

32.2

.288

43.2

OBP

.373

60.3

SLG

.327

20.6

OPS

.700

32.2

wRC+

89.0

35.7

OPS+

82.6

30.7

wOBA

.337

38.2

sWAR

0.4

28.6

of 200 qualified 1928 batters (min 21 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

1.0

63.6

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
1918	18	67	57	4	10	2	0	0	7	7	0	0	.175	.277	.211	.487	49.0	39.4	.260	-0.1
1919	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-97.1	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1920	9	27	23	3	4	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.174	.296	.174	.470	75.2	59.6	.261	0.0
1921	7	25	22	2	6	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	.273	.304	.318	.623	66.1	60.8	.292	0.0
1922	4	16	14	1	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.214	.267	.214	.481	46.5	37.9	.238	0.0
1923	23	94	86	8	21	4	2	0	11	6	1	0	.244	.293	.337	.631	80.0	76.5	.297	0.2
1924	34	134	118	10	38	7	2	2	18	9	1	2	.322	.380	.466	.846	124.1	128.7	.391	0.9
1925	32	120	107	6	29	1	0	1	7	7	0	0	.271	.316	.308	.624	66.8	62.2	.294	0.0
1926	20	75	67	3	8	0	0	0	1	3	1	0	.119	.181	.119	.300	-5.4	-17.2	.158	-0.7
1927	22	87	75	14	18	1	2	2	11	9	0	0	.240	.329	.387	.716	88.3	87.3	.337	0.3
1928	33	121	104	8	30	4	0	0	12	12	1	3	.288	.373	.327	.700	89.0	82.6	.337	0.4

Career totals

203

770

677

167

RBI

.2467

OBP

.3145

SLG

.3161

OPS

.6306

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	RBI	BB	TB
1923-07-29	BRG @ BBS Gameday	4	0	2	2	0	2	0	4
1923-09-03	BBS @ BRG Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	2	1	4
1923-09-03	BBS @ BRG Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	0	4
1923-08-22	BRG @ HIL Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	0	0	3
1923-08-19	BRG @ NYL Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	1	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1923-05-12	BRG @ HIL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-13	BRG @ BBS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-13	BRG @ BBS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-14	BRG @ BBS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-27	BRG @ NYL Gameday	0.0	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.