MLB / Players

John Roach

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left
Listed at5 ft 9 in · 175 lb
BornNovember 19, 1867 · North Bend, PA, USA
MLB debutMay 14, 1887
Final gameMay 14, 1887
Seasons1 (1887–1887)

New York Giants 1887

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
-0.4
15.6

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
18871440100010100.250.250.250.50049.239.1.230-0.4

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1887110101018104308.011.252.7503.384.22104.236.0-0.4

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

G
1
PA
4
AB
4
R
0
H
1
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
1
BB
0
SO
1
SB
0
BA
.2500
OBP
.2500
SLG
.2500
OPS
.5000

Pitching

G (P)
1
GS
1
W
0
L
1
SV
0
CG
1
SHO
0
IP
8
SO (P)
3
BB allowed
4
ERA
11.250
WHIP
2.7500
K/9
3.38

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.