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Cincinnati Red Stockings 1888–1889; Cincinnati Reds 1890; Cleveland Spiders 1890–1891; Boston Beaneaters 1892; Cleveland Spiders 1892; Louisville Colonels 1892
Percentile snapshot
1891 season — qualified pitchers
of 58 qualified 1891 pitchers (min 141 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1888 | 43 | 160 | 149 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 46 | 5 | 0 | .087 | .150 | .121 | .271 | 18.0 | -12.9 | .142 | 4.5 |
| 1889 | 47 | 159 | 147 | 14 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 47 | 4 | 0 | .143 | .208 | .170 | .378 | 30.2 | 7.8 | .194 | 3.2 |
| 1890 | 26 | 86 | 79 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 0 | .152 | .221 | .165 | .385 | 30.8 | 12.7 | .201 | 1.0 |
| 1891 | 45 | 156 | 144 | 15 | 23 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 28 | 2 | 0 | .160 | .224 | .208 | .433 | 39.7 | 26.1 | .218 | 4.3 |
| 1892 | 23 | 77 | 69 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 2 | 0 | .188 | .273 | .217 | .490 | 60.8 | 48.7 | .253 | 0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1888 | 42 | 42 | 27 | 14 | 0 | 42 | 1 | 331 | 114 | 110 | 164 | 7 | 387.7 | 2.65 | 1.138 | 3.81 | 3.10 | 101.4 | 115.6 | 4.5 |
| 1889 | 47 | 42 | 22 | 20 | 1 | 38 | 1 | 379 | 157 | 136 | 152 | 8 | 373.0 | 3.79 | 1.381 | 3.67 | 3.66 | 95.1 | 101.5 | 3.2 |
| 1890 | 26 | 23 | 11 | 14 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 198 | 85 | 81 | 71 | 12 | 197.0 | 3.88 | 1.416 | 3.24 | 4.06 | 114.0 | 91.7 | 1.0 |
| 1891 | 45 | 38 | 18 | 17 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 367 | 115 | 138 | 130 | 3 | 343.7 | 3.01 | 1.469 | 3.40 | 3.10 | 92.7 | 111.0 | 4.3 |
| 1892 | 18 | 17 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 166 | 62 | 61 | 37 | 7 | 140.7 | 3.97 | 1.614 | 2.37 | 3.86 | 117.4 | 82.8 | 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
Pitching
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.