MLB / Players

John Foreman

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 150 lb

BornAugust 6, 1874 · Baltimore, MD, USA

MLB debutJuly 18, 1895

Final gameSeptember 22, 1896

Seasons2 (1895–1896)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1895; Cincinnati Reds 1896; Pittsburgh Pirates 1896

Percentile snapshot

1895 season — qualified pitchers

2.2

15.6

95.6

91.1

2.2

SHO

131

100

97.8

84.4

44.4

100

139.7

2.2

ERA

3.22

93.3

WHIP

1.396

84.4

K/9

3.48

95.6

FIP

4.59

62.2

FIP-

96.2

62.2

ERA+

148.1

93.3

sWAR

2.8

55.6

of 46 qualified 1895 pitchers (min 134 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

0.9

63.3

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
1895	19	54	46	6	3	0	0	0	4	7	14	2	0	.065	.189	.065	.254	-0.8	-32.8	.156	2.8
1896	13	38	30	2	5	0	0	0	2	8	9	0	0	.167	.342	.167	.509	62.7	35.8	.288	-1.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1895	19	16	8	6	2	12	0	131	50	64	54	0	139.7	3.22	1.396	3.48	4.59	96.2	148.1	2.8
1896	13	13	4	6	0	8	1	114	74	51	27	6	84.7	7.87	1.949	2.87	5.74	131.6	55.4	-1.9

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

RBI

.1053

OBP

.2527

SLG

.1053

OPS

.3580

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

224

SO (P)

BB allowed

115

ERA

4.975

WHIP

1.6048

K/9

3.25

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.