MLB / Players

John Henry

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
BornSeptember 2, 1863 · Springfield, MA, USA
MLB debutAugust 13, 1884
Final gameAugust 7, 1890
Seasons4 (1884–1890)

Cleveland Blues 1884; Baltimore Orioles 1885; Washington Nationals 1886; New York Giants 1890

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
-0.1
31.9

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
18849262624000001200.154.154.154.30822.3-2.8.1400.0
18851035344930031000.265.286.353.63998.8100.8.2950.1
1886414143500000300.357.357.357.714111.4117.3.3290.1
189037152144193560016712120.243.283.285.56869.865.4.277-0.2

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1884551405146172623242.03.641.7144.934.24142.381.70.0
1885992709071341331071.04.311.1833.932.8587.775.30.1
1886441304035131519127.74.231.8076.183.80115.777.80.1

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
60
PA
227
AB
218
R
28
H
53
2B
9
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
19
BB
8
SO
27
SB
12
BA
.2431
OBP
.2731
SLG
.2844
OPS
.5575

Pitching

G (P)
18
GS
18
W
4
L
14
SV
0
CG
18
SHO
1
IP
141
SO (P)
73
BB allowed
54
ERA
4.095
WHIP
1.4645
K/9
4.67

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.