MLB / Players

John Rainey

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 10 in · 164 lb
BornJuly 16, 1864 · Birmingham, MI, USA
MLB debutAugust 25, 1887
Final gameJuly 29, 1890
Seasons2 (1887–1890)

New York Giants 1887; Buffalo Bisons 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
0.3
55.5

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
1887176358617300125600.293.349.345.69496.293.1.3250.2
1890421951662939511202415120.235.349.295.64483.872.5.3240.1

Career totals

G
59
PA
258
AB
224
R
35
H
56
2B
8
3B
1
HR
1
RBI
32
BB
29
SO
21
SB
12
BA
.2500
OBP
.3488
SLG
.3080
OPS
.6568

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.