John Powers
Pittsburgh Pirates 1955–1958; Cincinnati Redlegs 1959; Baltimore Orioles 1960; Cleveland Indians 1960
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 27.1 | 33.8 | .227 | 0.0 |
| 1956 | 11 | 22 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .048 | .091 | .048 | .139 | -75.1 | -60.8 | .075 | -0.4 |
| 1957 | 20 | 44 | 35 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .409 | .543 | .952 | 161.4 | 158.0 | .417 | 0.4 |
| 1958 | 57 | 90 | 82 | 6 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .183 | .256 | .268 | .524 | 40.2 | 41.5 | .246 | -0.4 |
| 1959 | 43 | 47 | 43 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .256 | .319 | .488 | .808 | 110.8 | 109.0 | .356 | 0.2 |
| 1960 | 18 | 35 | 30 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .257 | .233 | .490 | 39.8 | 35.8 | .245 | -0.2 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-09-29 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 1960-05-15 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1957-05-02 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1958-06-27 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 1958-09-06 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-05-01 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955-05-01 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955-05-03 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955-05-07 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955-05-10 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.