Kip Selbach

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 190 lb

BornMarch 24, 1872 · Columbus, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 24, 1894

Final gameJune 29, 1906

Seasons13 (1894–1906)

Washington Senators 1894–1898; Cincinnati Reds 1899; New York Giants 1900–1901; Baltimore Orioles 1902; Washington Senators 1903; Boston Americans 1904; Washington Senators 1904; Boston Americans 1905–1906

Percentile snapshot

1905 season — qualified batters

121

23.1

499

24.1

418

21.3

103

22.2

40.7

44.4

74.1

RBI

45.4

91.7

74.1

29.6

.246

26.9

OBP

.355

75.9

SLG

.342

43.5

OPS

.697

wRC+

124.8

70.4

OPS+

120.0

67.6

wOBA

.345

65.7

sWAR

2.7

67.6

of 109 qualified 1905 batters (min 474 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

119.1

77.9

OPS+

119.5

78.7

sWAR

33.5

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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
1894	97	426	372	69	114	21	17	7	71	51	20	21	.306	.390	.511	.901	110.4	115.4	.410	1.7
1895	130	597	519	116	168	22	22	6	55	71	28	31	.324	.406	.486	.892	122.9	129.1	.417	3.3
1896	127	578	487	100	148	17	13	5	100	76	28	49	.304	.405	.423	.828	117.8	118.3	.398	2.7
1897	124	576	486	113	152	25	16	5	59	80	32	46	.313	.414	.461	.875	127.2	130.6	.416	3.4
1898	132	589	515	88	156	28	11	3	60	64	21	25	.303	.383	.417	.801	126.0	128.9	.389	3.3
1899	141	621	525	105	156	28	11	3	87	70	26	38	.297	.386	.410	.796	117.4	118.0	.385	3.0
1900	141	611	523	98	176	29	12	4	68	72	25	36	.337	.425	.461	.885	140.7	144.2	.422	4.5
1901	125	555	502	89	145	29	6	1	56	45	39	8	.289	.350	.376	.726	110.8	110.8	.348	2.0
1902	128	573	503	86	161	27	9	3	60	58	18	22	.320	.393	.427	.820	122.1	121.9	.386	2.9
1903	140	586	533	68	134	23	12	3	49	41	38	20	.251	.305	.356	.661	96.1	96.1	.309	1.0
1904	146	639	554	65	146	27	12	0	44	72	37	19	.264	.351	.356	.707	124.8	120.1	.342	3.3
1905	121	499	418	54	103	16	6	4	47	67	28	12	.246	.355	.342	.697	124.8	120.0	.345	2.7
1906	60	252	228	15	48	9	2	0	23	18	18	7	.211	.277	.268	.545	69.8	68.8	.271	-0.4

Career totals

1,612

7,102

437th-most career PA

6,165

470th-most career AB

1,066

297th-most career R

1,807

401st-most career H

301

487th-most career 2B

149

51st-most career 3B

RBI

779

785

286th-most career BB

358

334

129th-most career SB

.2931

345th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3767

215th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4117

OPS

.7884

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	TB
1901-06-09	SF @ CIN Gameday	7	4	6	2	0	0	2	8
1901-08-15	ATL @ SF Gameday	5	1	5	3	0	0	1	8
1901-06-29	CHC @ SF Gameday	4	3	4	0	2	0	3	8
1905-08-04	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	3	7
1903-08-29	BOS @ MIN Gameday	5	0	3	2	1	0	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-19	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-30	SF @ PHI 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.