MLB / Players

John Ward

Born1862 · East St. Louis, IL, USA
MLB debutSeptember 19, 1885
Final gameSeptember 19, 1885
Seasons1 (1885–1885)

Providence Grays 1885

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
-0.1
30.6

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
18851330000000200.000.000.000.000-56.0-100.0.000-0.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
188511010101041308.04.501.3753.382.3081.662.6-0.1

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
3
AB
3
R
0
H
0
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
2
SB
0
BA
.0000
OBP
.0000
SLG
.0000
OPS
.0000

Pitching

G (P)
1
GS
1
W
0
L
1
SV
0
CG
1
SHO
0
IP
8
SO (P)
3
BB allowed
1
ERA
4.500
WHIP
1.3750
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.