John Reese
Atlantic City Bacharach Giants 1918; Hilldale Club 1918–1919; Chicago American Giants 1920–1921; Detroit Stars 1921; Chicago American Giants 1922; St. Louis Stars 1923; Toledo Tigers 1923; St. Louis Stars 1924–1926; St. Louis Stars 1928; St. Louis Stars 1930–1931
Percentile snapshot
1919 season — qualified batters
of 125 qualified 1919 batters (min 65 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 17 | 71 | 59 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .153 | .231 | .237 | .468 | 37.4 | 34.1 | .240 | -0.3 |
| 1919 | 17 | 69 | 63 | 8 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .318 | .460 | .778 | 126.8 | 137.5 | .371 | 0.4 |
| 1920 | 36 | 138 | 119 | 12 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 17 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .176 | .279 | .202 | .481 | 56.5 | 44.5 | .255 | -0.5 |
| 1921 | 30 | 96 | 86 | 10 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .186 | .255 | .244 | .500 | 49.7 | 41.3 | .246 | -0.4 |
| 1922 | 37 | 110 | 91 | 19 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 0 | .198 | .270 | .220 | .490 | 44.8 | 32.9 | .243 | -0.5 |
| 1923 | 47 | 191 | 162 | 37 | 48 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 16 | 0 | 8 | 0 | .296 | .363 | .414 | .777 | 102.3 | 100.9 | .361 | 0.5 |
| 1924 | 51 | 176 | 158 | 17 | 35 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | .222 | .263 | .278 | .542 | 53.1 | 48.6 | .260 | -0.6 |
| 1925 | 42 | 63 | 47 | 14 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .319 | .439 | .447 | .885 | 137.1 | 138.5 | .412 | 0.4 |
| 1926 | 24 | 33 | 29 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .241 | .290 | .310 | .601 | 58.2 | 54.8 | .282 | -0.1 |
| 1928 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -95.3 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1930 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .250 | .333 | .500 | .833 | 113.9 | 118.9 | .372 | 0.0 |
| 1931 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923-08-11 | MIL @ SLS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 1923-06-23 | TOL @ SLS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1923-09-08 | CUB @ SLS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1923-09-09 | CUB @ SLS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1923-09-04 | ABC @ SLS Gameday | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920-05-09 | CHG @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-16 | DAY @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-22 | DAY @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-23 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-24 | KCM @ CAG 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.