John Ward

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 165 lb

BornMarch 3, 1860 · Bellefonte, PA, USA

MLB debutJuly 15, 1878

Final gameSeptember 29, 1894

Seasons17 (1878–1894)

Providence Grays 1878–1882; New York Gothams 1883–1884; New York Giants 1885–1889; Brooklyn Ward's Wonders 1890; Brooklyn Grooms 1891–1892; New York Giants 1893–1894

Percentile snapshot

1894 season — qualified batters

138

97.6

605

75.3

549

89.4

102

47.1

146

37.6

12.9

17.6

RBI

41.2

27.1

87.1

76.5

.266

10.6

OBP

.311

4.7

SLG

.306

4.7

OPS

.617

4.7

wRC+

58.1

5.9

OPS+

49.1

5.9

wOBA

.295

4.7

sWAR

-1.2

1.2

of 86 qualified 1894 batters (min 430 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

1883 season — qualified pitchers

48.8

41.5

51.2

46.3

SHO

36.6

278

53.7

58.5

75.6

121

56.1

58.5

277.0

48.8

ERA

2.70

68.3

WHIP

1.116

K/9

3.93

75.6

FIP

2.85

85.4

FIP-

90.9

80.5

ERA+

116.2

68.3

sWAR

5.1

68.3

of 42 qualified 1883 pitchers (min 98 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

93.4

28.9

OPS+

92.0

26.4

ERA+

124.2

93.4

sWAR

60.7

99.4

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1878	37	140	138	14	27	5	4	1	15	2	13	0	.196	.207	.312	.519	76.1	68.3	.238	6.0
1879	83	371	364	71	104	9	4	2	41	7	14	0	.286	.299	.349	.648	108.8	112.3	.292	9.2
1880	86	362	356	53	81	12	2	0	27	6	16	0	.228	.240	.272	.513	78.2	72.3	.233	9.9
1881	85	362	357	56	87	18	6	0	53	5	10	0	.244	.254	.328	.582	83.1	80.4	.264	5.8
1882	83	368	355	58	87	10	3	1	39	13	22	0	.245	.272	.299	.570	87.6	82.9	.258	4.2
1883	88	388	380	76	97	18	7	7	54	8	25	0	.255	.271	.395	.665	97.4	97.6	.292	5.1
1884	113	510	482	98	122	11	8	2	51	28	47	0	.253	.294	.322	.616	95.9	93.8	.283	1.9
1885	111	463	446	72	101	8	9	0	37	17	39	0	.226	.255	.285	.540	79.5	74.0	.252	0.9
1886	122	510	491	82	134	17	5	2	81	19	46	36	.273	.300	.340	.640	94.2	93.9	.296	1.9
1887	129	578	545	114	184	16	5	1	53	29	12	111	.338	.375	.391	.766	110.5	112.8	.354	3.2
1888	122	520	510	70	128	14	5	2	49	9	13	38	.251	.265	.310	.575	83.1	82.4	.265	1.3
1889	114	508	479	87	143	13	4	1	67	27	7	62	.299	.339	.349	.687	91.8	91.2	.329	1.6
1890	128	614	561	134	188	15	12	4	60	51	22	63	.335	.393	.426	.819	113.5	118.1	.389	3.5
1891	105	480	441	85	122	13	5	0	39	36	10	57	.277	.335	.329	.664	94.9	93.5	.324	1.7
1892	148	699	614	109	163	13	3	1	47	82	19	88	.265	.355	.301	.656	102.7	98.5	.330	2.8
1893	135	636	588	129	193	27	9	2	77	47	5	46	.328	.379	.415	.794	107.4	110.7	.380	2.8
1894	138	605	549	102	146	12	5	0	79	35	6	39	.266	.311	.306	.617	58.1	49.1	.295	-1.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1878	37	37	22	13	0	37	6	308	56	34	116	3	334.0	1.51	1.024	3.13	2.26	98.2	152.7	6.0
1879	70	60	47	19	1	58	2	571	140	36	239	5	587.0	2.15	1.034	3.66	2.22	88.9	116.3	9.2
1880	70	67	39	24	1	59	8	501	115	45	230	5	595.0	1.74	.918	3.48	2.10	88.3	136.5	9.9
1881	39	35	18	18	0	32	3	326	78	53	119	2	330.0	2.13	1.148	3.25	2.53	91.0	130.4	5.8
1882	34	33	19	13	1	30	4	268	81	36	72	6	286.0	2.55	1.063	2.27	3.00	104.0	113.2	4.2
1883	34	25	16	13	0	24	1	278	83	31	121	3	277.0	2.70	1.116	3.93	2.85	90.9	116.2	5.1
1884	9	5	3	3	0	5	0	72	23	18	23	2	60.7	3.41	1.484	3.41	3.42	114.8	87.3	1.9

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

1,827

386th-most career G

8,114

277th-most career PA

7,656

192nd-most career AB

1,410

94th-most career R

2,107

234th-most career H

231

177th-most career 3B

RBI

869

443rd-most career RBI

421

326

540

29th-most career SB

.2752

OBP

.3144

SLG

.3406

OPS

.6550

Pitching

G (P)

293

262

490th-most career GS

164

215th-most career W

103

245

85th-most career CG

SHO

189th-most career SHO

2,470

266th-most career IP

SO (P)

920

BB allowed

253

ERA

2.099

7th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.0435

6th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.35

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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1964 (Veterans)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.