Neal Ball
New York Highlanders 1907–1908; Cleveland Naps 1909; New York Highlanders 1909; Cleveland Naps 1910–1911; Boston Red Sox 1912; Cleveland Naps 1912; Boston Red Sox 1913
Percentile snapshot
1908 season — qualified batters
of 105 qualified 1908 batters (min 480 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 | 15 | 47 | 44 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .205 | .222 | .273 | .495 | 42.8 | 51.2 | .239 | -0.1 |
| 1908 | 132 | 484 | 446 | 35 | 110 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 21 | 91 | 32 | 0 | .247 | .284 | .291 | .575 | 80.8 | 83.4 | .281 | 1.4 |
| 1909 | 104 | 391 | 353 | 34 | 89 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 28 | 20 | 58 | 19 | 0 | .252 | .294 | .317 | .611 | 88.2 | 91.0 | .299 | 1.4 |
| 1910 | 54 | 138 | 123 | 13 | 25 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 28 | 4 | 0 | .203 | .258 | .244 | .501 | 53.8 | 55.8 | .251 | -0.1 |
| 1911 | 116 | 452 | 412 | 45 | 122 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 45 | 27 | 94 | 21 | 0 | .296 | .339 | .396 | .735 | 100.6 | 103.5 | .351 | 1.7 |
| 1912 | 58 | 194 | 177 | 22 | 39 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 12 | 28 | 12 | 5 | .220 | .270 | .266 | .535 | 51.9 | 52.0 | .264 | -0.4 |
| 1913 | 23 | 70 | 58 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 0 | .172 | .294 | .207 | .501 | 54.1 | 46.6 | .268 | -0.1 |
Career totals
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 | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911-09-21 | CLE @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1911-08-04 | CLE @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1911-06-03 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 6 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1911-10-04 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1907-09-17 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907-04-11 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1907-04-13 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1907-04-15 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1907-04-16 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1907-04-17 | ATH @ NYY 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.