MLB / Players

Rip Coleman

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb
BornJuly 31, 1931 · Troy, NY, USA
MLB debutAugust 15, 1955
Final gameMay 5, 1960
Seasons5 (1955–1960)

New York Yankees 1955–1956; Kansas City Athletics 1957; Baltimore Orioles 1959; Kansas City Athletics 1959; Baltimore Orioles 1960

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
-0.0
39.8

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19551013102200002700.200.333.200.53361.549.3.283-0.1
195629272421000011400.042.080.042.122-78.9-66.0.0680.9
1957191191000001400.000.100.000.100-83.9-70.6.075-0.7
195932262502000001100.080.080.080.160-77.0-56.4.0730.2
19605110000000100.000.000.000.000-125.9-100.0.000-0.3

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19551062110040171615229.05.281.9314.664.05105.772.6-0.1
19562993520097364242688.33.671.5744.283.9098.5107.80.9
19571960701153272515541.05.931.9023.295.08130.265.9-0.7
1959321121022089413658885.04.341.4716.143.6391.391.40.2
19605102000855004.011.253.2500.006.90182.833.6-0.3

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

G
95
PA
78
AB
69
R
5
H
5
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
4
SO
37
SB
0
BA
.0725
OBP
.1233
SLG
.0725
OPS
.1958

Pitching

G (P)
95
GS
33
W
7
L
25
SV
5
CG
3
SHO
1
IP
247
SO (P)
130
BB allowed
124
ERA
4.585
WHIP
1.6617
K/9
4.73

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1955-08-15NYY @ BAL Gameday311000001
1955-09-05NYY @ BAL Gameday211000001
1956-09-23NYY @ BOS Gameday211000001
1959-06-25NYY @ ATH Gameday101000001
1959-07-04CWS @ ATH Gameday201000001

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1959-06-12ATH @ BOS Gameday7.0622570
1955-08-15NYY @ BAL Gameday5.1566560
1956-07-22ATH @ NYY Gameday7.0644450
1959-05-25DET @ ATH Gameday7.0443251
1956-09-15NYY @ DET Gameday6.01033050

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.