Otto Knabe

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 175 lb

BornJune 12, 1884 · Carrick, PA, USA

MLB debutOctober 3, 1905

Final gameSeptember 25, 1916

Seasons11 (1905–1916)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1905; Philadelphia Phillies 1907–1913; Baltimore Terrapins 1914–1915; Chicago Cubs 1916; Pittsburgh Pirates 1916

Percentile snapshot

1914 season — qualified batters

147

68.1

551

43.6

469

39.9

21.5

106

25.2

83.4

14.7

40.5

RBI

41.7

68.7

70.6

20.9

.226

7.4

OBP

.307

17.8

SLG

.303

13.5

OPS

.610

wRC+

75.1

8.6

OPS+

73.7

8.6

wOBA

.299

12.3

sWAR

0.4

14.7

of 164 qualified 1914 batters (min 496 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

88.9

OPS+

87.4

18.9

sWAR

12.8

89.5

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1905	3	13	10	0	3	1	0	0	2	3	2	0	.300	.462	.400	.862	165.8	157.6	.429	0.2
1907	129	541	444	67	113	16	9	1	34	52	48	18	.255	.339	.338	.677	117.0	114.6	.339	3.1
1908	151	653	555	63	121	26	8	0	27	49	46	27	.218	.290	.294	.583	85.3	85.1	.290	1.4
1909	113	469	402	40	94	13	3	0	34	35	39	9	.234	.308	.281	.589	84.4	82.8	.297	0.9
1910	137	597	510	73	133	18	6	1	44	47	42	15	.261	.327	.325	.652	88.2	88.6	.322	1.4
1911	142	643	528	99	125	15	6	1	42	94	35	23	.237	.352	.294	.646	87.8	80.9	.327	1.4
1912	126	494	426	56	120	11	4	0	46	55	20	16	.282	.366	.326	.693	89.8	85.7	.341	1.2
1913	148	660	571	70	150	25	7	2	53	45	26	14	.263	.320	.342	.661	84.5	85.4	.316	1.2
1914	147	551	469	45	106	26	2	2	42	53	28	10	.226	.307	.303	.610	75.1	73.7	.299	0.4
1915	103	372	320	38	81	16	2	1	25	37	16	7	.253	.334	.325	.659	96.2	94.0	.324	1.3
1916	79	262	234	21	57	11	1	0	16	15	24	4	.244	.300	.299	.600	82.2	83.0	.290	0.5

Career totals

1,278

5,255

4,469

572

1,103

178

RBI

365

485

326

143

.2468

OBP

.3255

SLG

.3135

OPS

.6390

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
1911-05-15	CIN @ PHI Gameday	4	4	2	0	1	1	0	1	7
1910-09-02	SF @ PHI Gameday	6	1	4	2	0	0	1	0	6
1910-10-06	PHI @ ATL Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	0	0	0	6
1913-09-21	PHI @ CHC Gameday	4	0	4	2	0	0	0	0	6
1907-06-15	PHI @ CIN Gameday	4	3	3	1	1	0	3	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1905-04-14	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1905-04-15	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1905-04-16	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1905-04-17	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1905-04-19	STL @ PIT 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.