MLB / Players

John Gelnar

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb
BornJune 25, 1943 · Granite, OK, USA
MLB debutAugust 4, 1964
Final gameApril 30, 1971
Seasons5 (1964–1971)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1964; Pittsburgh Pirates 1967; Seattle Pilots 1969; Milwaukee Brewers 1970–1971

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
0.5
58.8

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
19647000000000000-0.1
196710762100001200.167.286.167.45242.332.8.240-0.9
19694022190100000800.053.053.053.105-96.1-70.4.0491.3
19705313121100001600.083.154.083.237-41.8-32.7.1290.4
19712000000000000-0.2

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
196470000001151429.05.001.3334.005.08144.970.2-0.1
1967101010003017115419.08.052.1582.376.92204.042.1-0.9
196939103103001034026697108.73.311.1875.712.7876.8109.51.3
19705304340098432348792.34.191.3104.683.2887.789.40.4
19712000000321001.313.503.0000.004.61134.425.4-0.2

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

G
112
PA
42
AB
37
R
3
H
3
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
2
SO
16
SB
0
BA
.0811
OBP
.1282
SLG
.0811
OPS
.2093

Pitching

G (P)
111
GS
11
W
7
L
14
SV
7
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
230
SO (P)
126
BB allowed
62
ERA
4.181
WHIP
1.3329
K/9
4.92

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
1967-09-10STL @ PIT Gameday211000001
1969-07-25BOS @ MIL Gameday201000001
1970-08-29MIL @ BAL Gameday101000001
1964-04-28PIT @ ATL Gameday000000000
1964-05-08ATL @ PIT Gameday000000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1969-08-03NYY @ MIL Gameday5.2400150
1970-09-07MIL @ MIN Gameday2.0100050
1969-07-20MIN @ MIL Gameday7.0533042
1969-09-04KC @ MIL Gameday6.1532341
1969-07-09LAA @ MIL Gameday5.0542240

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.