MLB / Players

John Shoup

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at5 ft 7 in · 140 lb
BornSeptember 30, 1851 · WV, USA
MLB debutMay 3, 1879
Final gameMay 28, 1884
Seasons3 (1879–1884)

Troy Trojans 1879; St. Louis Brown Stockings 1882; Washington Nationals 1884

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
18.2

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
18791144445400010300.091.091.091.182-3.7-40.0.082-0.4
18822771000000000.000.000.000.000-40.2-100.0.000-0.1
18841441300000000.750.750.7501.500293.4408.3.6880.1

Career totals

G
14
PA
55
AB
55
R
7
H
7
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
1
BB
0
SO
3
SB
0
BA
.1273
OBP
.1273
SLG
.1273
OPS
.2546

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.