MLB / Players

Les German

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 165 lb

BornJune 1, 1869 · Baltimore, MD, USA

MLB debutAugust 27, 1890

Final gameAugust 6, 1897

Seasons6 (1890–1897)

Baltimore Orioles 1890; New York Giants 1893–1896; Washington Senators 1896–1897

Percentile snapshot

1896 season — qualified pitchers

38.6

18.2

56.8

15.9

SHO

249

63.6

121

40.9

43.2

2.3

169.3

18.2

ERA

6.43

2.3

WHIP

1.913

2.3

K/9

1.06

FIP

4.93

2.3

FIP-

113.2

2.3

ERA+

67.8

2.3

sWAR

-1.5

of 45 qualified 1896 pitchers (min 133 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.3

71.6

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

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1890	17	59	51	7	6	1	0	0	3	8	0	5	.118	.237	.137	.375	37.4	10.2	.212	-0.1
1893	22	79	74	10	23	0	1	0	15	5	1	1	.311	.354	.338	.692	87.1	84.1	.337	2.4
1894	24	65	60	8	18	2	0	0	8	3	5	1	.300	.333	.333	.667	67.6	60.9	.316	1.2
1895	35	124	111	16	29	2	2	2	16	9	7	1	.261	.333	.369	.703	84.3	80.9	.335	0.2
1896	31	78	71	11	16	1	0	1	6	5	5	3	.225	.295	.282	.577	60.7	52.4	.284	-1.5
1897	19	48	44	8	15	2	0	0	3	3	2	0	.341	.383	.386	.769	103.3	103.2	.369	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1890	17	16	5	11	0	15	147	71	54	37	2	132.3	4.83	1.519	2.52	4.30	111.3	80.0	-0.1
1893	20	18	8	8	0	14	162	70	70	35	6	152.0	4.14	1.526	2.07	4.86	104.2	112.5	2.4
1894	24	16	9	8	1	11	186	88	68	21	7	143.0	5.54	1.776	1.32	5.79	108.7	96.2	1.2
1895	25	18	7	11	0	16	243	118	78	36	7	178.3	5.96	1.800	1.82	5.15	107.9	80.1	0.2
1896	29	20	2	20	1	14	249	121	75	20	6	169.3	6.43	1.913	1.06	4.93	113.2	67.8	-1.5
1897	15	5	3	5	0	4	117	52	33	2	2	83.7	5.59	1.793	0.22	5.02	116.6	76.9	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

148

453

411

107

RBI

.2603

OBP

.3229

SLG

.3163

OPS

.6392

Pitching

G (P)

130

SHO

859

SO (P)

151

BB allowed

378

ERA

5.450

WHIP

1.7259

K/9

1.58

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.