MLB / Players

Robert Gibson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 3 in · 185 lb
BornAugust 20, 1869 · Duncansville, PA, USA
MLB debutJune 4, 1890
Final gameAugust 7, 1890
Seasons1 (1890–1890)

Chicago Colts 1890; Pittsburg Alleghenys 1890

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
-1.1
4.9

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1890418171300011300.176.222.176.39931.413.7.202-1.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
189044130303023254021.09.862.6191.716.28176.436.1-1.1

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
4
PA
18
AB
17
R
1
H
3
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
1
BB
1
SO
3
SB
0
BA
.1765
OBP
.2222
SLG
.1765
OPS
.3987

Pitching

G (P)
4
GS
4
W
1
L
3
SV
0
CG
3
SHO
0
IP
21
SO (P)
4
BB allowed
25
ERA
9.857
WHIP
2.6190
K/9
1.71

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.