MLB / Players

John Newell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left
Listed at5 ft 9 in · 170 lb
BornJanuary 14, 1868 · Wilmington, DE, USA
MLB debutJuly 22, 1891
Final gameAugust 1, 1891
Seasons1 (1891–1891)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1891

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
26.4

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
1891519181200020000.111.158.111.269-0.3-21.3.141-0.2

Career totals

G
5
PA
19
AB
18
R
1
H
2
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
2
BB
0
SO
0
SB
0
BA
.1111
OBP
.1579
SLG
.1111
OPS
.2690

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.