John McPherson
Philadelphia Athletics 1901; Philadelphia Phillies 1904
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -86.7 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| 1904 | 15 | 50 | 47 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .064 | .102 | .064 | .166 | -44.3 | -48.1 | .090 | -0.7 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 11.25 | 2.750 | 0.00 | 6.67 | 175.7 | 33.7 | -0.3 |
| 1904 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 130 | 52 | 46 | 32 | 1 | 128.0 | 3.66 | 1.375 | 2.25 | 3.15 | 117.7 | 73.3 | -0.7 |
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
Pitching
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
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904-06-28 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1904-05-14 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1904-06-25 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1901-04-26 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-27 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904-06-22 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 13.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 1904-04-19 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 15.0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 1904-05-03 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| 1904-05-23 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| 1904-07-02 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 7.0 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
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.