John Coleman

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 170 lb

BornMarch 6, 1863 · Saratoga Springs, NY, USA

MLB debutMay 1, 1883

Final gameJuly 18, 1890

Seasons8 (1883–1890)

Philadelphia Quakers 1883; Philadelphia Athletics 1884; Philadelphia Quakers 1884; Philadelphia Athletics 1885–1886; Pittsburg Alleghenys 1886–1888; Philadelphia Athletics 1889; Pittsburg Alleghenys 1890

Percentile snapshot

1888 season — qualified batters

116

24.7

471

438

16.9

6.7

101

15.7

14.6

RBI

2.2

49.4

5.6

.231

30.3

OBP

.285

34.8

SLG

.274

13.5

OPS

.558

19.1

wRC+

83.6

22.5

OPS+

78.3

19.1

wOBA

.266

20.2

sWAR

0.0

of 90 qualified 1888 batters (min 427 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

1884 season — qualified pitchers

39.5

34.6

28.4

SHO

33.3

244

51.9

74.1

8.6

28.4

175.3

34.6

ERA

4.72

3.7

WHIP

1.529

7.4

K/9

2.16

1.2

FIP

3.58

17.3

FIP-

119.0

14.8

ERA+

63.7

3.7

sWAR

-0.7

12.3

of 82 qualified 1884 pitchers (min 113 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.6

72.4

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
1883	90	369	354	33	83	12	8	0	32	15	39	0	.234	.266	.314	.579	81.3	74.0	.260	-3.0
1884	71	291	278	32	64	9	5	2	22	13	20	0	.230	.265	.320	.585	89.5	85.7	.267	-0.7
1885	96	426	398	71	119	15	11	3	70	25	0	0	.299	.345	.415	.760	127.6	139.1	.352	3.2
1886	132	572	535	70	136	20	17	0	74	35	0	29	.254	.302	.355	.658	102.9	106.4	.315	2.0
1887	115	507	475	75	139	21	11	2	54	31	40	25	.293	.337	.396	.733	101.5	102.6	.336	1.3
1888	116	471	438	49	101	11	4	0	26	29	52	15	.231	.285	.274	.558	83.6	78.3	.266	0.0
1889	6	20	19	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	3	1	.053	.100	.053	.153	-21.2	-56.1	.086	0.4
1890	3	14	11	1	2	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	.182	.357	.182	.539	82.6	58.2	.302	-0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1883	65	61	12	48	59	3	772	291	48	159	17	538.3	4.87	1.523	2.66	3.33	106.4	64.4	-3.0
1884	24	21	5	17	16	1	244	92	24	42	9	175.3	4.72	1.529	2.16	3.58	119.0	63.7	-0.7
1885	8	3	2	2	3	0	82	23	5	12	0	60.3	3.43	1.442	1.79	2.94	90.5	94.6	3.2
1886	3	1	1	1	1	0	18	6	5	2	1	20.7	2.61	1.113	0.87	4.43	128.6	131.8	2.0
1889	5	5	3	2	4	0	38	11	14	6	2	34.0	2.91	1.529	1.59	4.75	123.7	132.0	0.4
1890	2	2	0	2	1	0	28	15	6	3	1	14.0	9.64	2.429	1.93	4.45	124.9	36.9	-0.7

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

629

2,670

2,508

332

645

RBI

279

152

154

.2572

OBP

.3022

SLG

.3453

OPS

.6475

Pitching

G (P)

107

SHO

843

SO (P)

224

BB allowed

102

ERA

4.678

WHIP

1.5237

K/9

2.39

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.