MLB / Players

Luther Taylor

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 160 lb

BornFebruary 21, 1875 · Oskaloosa, KS, USA

MLB debutAugust 27, 1900

Final gameSeptember 29, 1908

Seasons9 (1900–1908)

New York Giants 1900–1901; Cleveland Bronchos 1902; New York Giants 1902–1908

Percentile snapshot

1907 season — qualified pitchers

20.5

17.9

34.6

80.8

48.7

14.1

SHO

39.7

145

83.3

76.9

74.4

19.2

62.8

171.0

16.7

ERA

2.42

WHIP

1.117

60.3

K/9

2.95

25.6

FIP

2.30

61.5

FIP-

91.7

61.5

ERA+

103.4

44.2

sWAR

1.8

33.3

of 79 qualified 1907 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

106.8

64.1

sWAR

21.7

94.3

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1900	11	24	22	2	3	0	0	1	1	6	0	.136	.174	.136	.310	-4.3	-13.9	.157	1.3
1901	45	141	136	11	18	0	0	6	4	44	0	.132	.157	.132	.289	-12.3	-15.5	.144	3.1
1902	30	82	75	4	7	1	0	3	4	23	1	.093	.150	.107	.257	-17.1	-21.8	.138	3.6
1903	33	98	82	7	12	0	0	5	10	19	0	.146	.239	.146	.385	22.7	10.1	.209	-0.2
1904	38	114	102	8	16	1	2	6	6	15	0	.157	.204	.206	.410	27.0	26.1	.203	4.3
1905	32	83	69	10	9	1	1	4	4	14	0	.130	.178	.174	.352	4.7	5.1	.177	2.8
1906	31	80	76	6	14	2	1	6	2	16	0	.184	.205	.237	.442	28.5	37.8	.216	3.4
1907	29	58	48	3	6	1	0	6	5	18	0	.125	.208	.146	.353	7.9	9.9	.191	1.8
1908	27	45	35	0	8	0	0	4	5	11	0	.229	.325	.229	.554	82.2	74.8	.288	1.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1900	11	7	4	3	0	6	0	74	17	24	16	0	62.3	2.45	1.572	2.31	3.71	100.4	150.5	1.3
1901	45	43	18	27	0	37	4	377	125	112	136	8	353.3	3.18	1.384	3.46	3.55	107.3	103.9	3.1
1902	30	29	8	18	0	22	1	231	57	63	95	4	234.7	2.19	1.253	3.64	3.01	105.2	131.2	3.6
1903	33	31	13	13	0	18	1	306	115	89	94	6	244.7	4.23	1.614	3.46	3.42	103.6	78.0	-0.2
1904	37	36	21	15	0	29	5	231	77	75	138	6	296.3	2.34	1.033	4.19	2.51	91.9	117.0	4.3
1905	32	28	16	9	0	18	4	200	63	51	91	5	213.3	2.66	1.177	3.84	2.87	95.9	112.4	2.8
1906	31	27	17	9	0	13	2	186	52	57	91	3	213.0	2.20	1.141	3.85	2.47	94.2	119.5	3.4
1907	28	21	11	7	1	11	3	145	46	46	56	1	171.0	2.42	1.117	2.95	2.30	91.7	103.4	1.8
1908	27	15	8	5	2	6	1	127	33	34	50	5	127.7	2.33	1.261	3.52	2.57	106.6	103.7	1.7

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

276

725

645

RBI

166

.1442

OBP

.1965

SLG

.1659

OPS

.3624

Pitching

G (P)

274

237

116

474th-most career W

106

484th-most career L

160

199th-most career CG

SHO

232nd-most career SHO

1,916

498th-most career IP

SO (P)

767

BB allowed

551

ERA

2.747

94th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2670

413th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.60

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	BB	TB
1904-05-11	SF @ CIN Gameday	4	4	2	1	1	1	5
1905-05-19	PIT @ SF Gameday	3	2	2	1	1	0	5
1906-06-25	PHI @ SF Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	0	3
1907-08-01	SF @ STL Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	1	3
1904-06-14	STL @ SF Gameday	3	0	1	0	1	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	BB	SO	HR
1904-05-26	LAD @ SF Gameday	9.0	6	4	4	9	1
1904-06-27	PHI @ SF Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	9	0
1906-07-07	ATL @ SF Gameday	8.0	8	4	2	9	0
1904-04-22	PHI @ SF Gameday	7.0	5	3	4	9	0
1901-06-27	CIN @ SF Gameday	9.0	3	0	4	8	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.