MLB / Players

John Leighton

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb
BornOctober 4, 1861 · Peabody, MA, USA
MLB debutJuly 12, 1890
Final gameJuly 20, 1890
Seasons1 (1890–1890)

Syracuse Stars 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
0.2
50.7

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
1890730276820003020.296.367.370.737112.7116.6.3640.2

Career totals

G
7
PA
30
AB
27
R
6
H
8
2B
2
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
3
SO
0
SB
2
BA
.2963
OBP
.3667
SLG
.3704
OPS
.7371

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.