MLB / Players

John Hofford

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 168 lb
BornMay 25, 1863 · Philadelphia, PA, USA
MLB debutSeptember 26, 1885
Final gameJuly 24, 1886
Seasons2 (1885–1886)

Pittsburg Alleghenys 1885–1886

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
0.4
57.4

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
18853881100000000.125.125.125.2508.7-20.9.1160.1
18869373441031053020.294.351.441.793132.2148.6.3750.3

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
188533030302810921125.03.601.4807.563.0192.790.10.1
1886993609088394025181.04.331.5802.784.22122.579.40.3

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
12
PA
45
AB
42
R
5
H
11
2B
3
3B
1
HR
0
RBI
5
BB
3
SO
0
SB
2
BA
.2619
OBP
.3111
SLG
.3810
OPS
.6921

Pitching

G (P)
12
GS
12
W
3
L
9
SV
0
CG
12
SHO
0
IP
106
SO (P)
46
BB allowed
49
ERA
4.160
WHIP
1.5566
K/9
3.91

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.