John Menefee

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 165 lb

BornJanuary 15, 1868 · Rowlesburg, WV, USA

MLB debutAugust 17, 1892

Final gameSeptember 7, 1903

Seasons9 (1892–1903)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1892; Louisville Colonels 1893–1894; Pittsburgh Pirates 1894–1895; New York Giants 1898; Chicago Orphans 1900–1902; Chicago Cubs 1903

Percentile snapshot

1903 season — qualified pitchers

9.7

11.1

20.8

69.4

11.1

SHO

18.1

157

87.5

76.4

9.7

52.8

147.0

9.7

ERA

3.00

44.4

WHIP

1.327

30.6

K/9

2.39

8.3

FIP

3.36

20.8

FIP-

107.3

27.8

ERA+

104.4

47.2

sWAR

1.7

38.9

of 73 qualified 1903 pitchers (min 139 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

104.1

54.2

sWAR

12.0

88.8

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1892	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-75.3	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1893	22	87	73	10	20	2	1	12	13	5	2	.274	.391	.329	.720	99.3	91.8	.363	2.1
1894	42	148	126	13	25	2	2	11	11	10	4	.198	.268	.246	.514	38.9	24.0	.253	4.4
1895	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1898	1	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-91.2	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1900	17	52	46	5	5	0	0	4	2	1	0	.109	.180	.109	.289	-4.7	-19.5	.157	0.7
1901	48	175	152	19	39	5	3	13	8	18	4	.257	.327	.329	.656	94.6	92.0	.319	1.0
1902	65	252	216	24	50	4	1	15	15	32	4	.231	.303	.259	.562	77.7	73.6	.286	2.6
1903	22	69	64	3	13	3	0	2	3	10	0	.203	.239	.250	.489	44.9	42.2	.238	1.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1892	1	0	0	0	0	0	10	5	2	0	0	4.0	11.25	3.000	0.00	3.94	119.8	29.2	-0.3
1893	15	15	8	7	14	1	150	61	40	30	3	129.3	4.24	1.469	2.09	4.08	87.5	109.8	2.1
1894	41	37	13	25	33	1	417	168	89	76	7	323.3	4.68	1.565	2.12	4.55	85.5	113.9	4.4
1895	2	1	0	1	0	0	2	3	7	0	0	1.7	16.20	5.400	0.00	17.98	376.7	29.5	-0.1
1898	1	1	0	1	1	0	11	5	2	3	0	9.3	4.82	1.393	2.89	3.41	94.6	74.7	-0.1
1900	16	13	9	4	11	0	140	50	35	30	1	117.0	3.85	1.496	2.31	3.58	96.9	96.1	0.7
1901	21	20	8	12	19	0	201	77	34	55	4	182.3	3.80	1.289	2.71	3.28	100.3	86.0	1.0
1902	22	21	12	10	20	3	201	53	26	60	1	197.3	2.42	1.150	2.74	2.48	89.4	114.5	2.6
1903	20	17	8	10	13	1	157	49	38	39	3	147.0	3.00	1.327	2.39	3.36	107.3	104.4	1.7

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

221

791

685

152

RBI

.2219

OBP

.2950

SLG

.2657

OPS

.5607

Pitching

G (P)

139

125

111

359th-most career CG

SHO

1,111

SO (P)

293

BB allowed

273

ERA

3.814

WHIP

1.4055

K/9

2.37

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	RBI	TB
1902-08-23	ATL @ CHC Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	2	4
1901-05-30	CHC @ ATL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	4
1902-08-25	ATL @ CHC Gameday	6	1	2	0	1	1	4
1901-06-20	CHC @ ATL Gameday	4	0	2	2	0	0	4
1901-08-05	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1901-09-20	ATL @ CHC Gameday	10.0	12	3	2	0	6
1901-06-11	LAD @ CHC Gameday	8.0	14	7	5	1	6
1901-06-22	CHC @ LAD Gameday	9.0	11	6	5	0	5
1901-09-23	PHI @ CHC Gameday	9.0	7	3	2	0	5
1902-05-18	PIT @ CHC Gameday	9.0	14	11	1	1	5

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.