MLB / Players

Lew Whistler

HandednessThrows Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 178 lb

BornMarch 10, 1868 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutAugust 7, 1890

Final gameJune 15, 1893

Seasons4 (1890–1893)

New York Giants 1890–1891; Baltimore Orioles 1892; Louisville Colonels 1892–1893; St. Louis Browns 1893

Percentile snapshot

1892 season — qualified batters

132

27.5

547

21.7

494

24.6

23.2

114

5.8

79.7

82.6

RBI

24.6

44.9

2.9

36.2

.231

14.5

OBP

.305

27.5

SLG

.346

46.4

OPS

.651

31.9

wRC+

96.0

33.3

OPS+

96.6

31.9

wOBA

.318

33.3

sWAR

0.6

14.5

of 70 qualified 1892 batters (min 477 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.2

70.9

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	45	191	170	27	49	9	7	2	29	20	37	8	.288	.366	.459	.825	129.1	139.8	.392	1.0
1891	72	292	265	39	65	8	7	3	38	24	45	4	.245	.315	.362	.677	96.1	96.9	.326	0.9
1892	132	547	494	74	114	10	13	7	55	48	67	26	.231	.305	.346	.651	96.0	96.6	.318	0.6
1893	23	94	85	10	19	2	1	0	11	8	7	1	.224	.298	.271	.568	61.8	51.4	.284	-0.3

Career totals

272

1,124

1,014

150

247

RBI

133

100

156

.2436

OBP

.3176

SLG

.3629

OPS

.6805

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.