Roger Bresnahan

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 200 lb

BornJune 11, 1879 · Toledo, OH, USA

MLB debutAugust 27, 1897

Final gameOctober 3, 1915

Seasons17 (1897–1915)

Washington Senators 1897; Chicago Orphans 1900; Baltimore Orioles 1901–1902; New York Giants 1902–1908; St. Louis Cardinals 1909–1912; Chicago Cubs 1913–1915

Percentile snapshot

1908 season — qualified batters

140

562

449

34.6

79.8

127

54.8

85.6

31.7

35.6

RBI

97.1

59.6

45.2

.283

OBP

.401

93.3

SLG

.359

68.3

OPS

.760

85.6

wRC+

150.0

91.3

OPS+

139.6

87.5

wOBA

.381

87.5

sWAR

6.7

98.1

of 105 qualified 1908 batters (min 486 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

130.7

91.1

OPS+

127.0

87.6

sWAR

48.8

98.8

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1897	6	17	16	1	6	0	0	0	3	1	2	0	0	.375	.412	.375	.787	109.2	108.3	.380	0.6
1900	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-90.5	-100.0	.000	0.0
1901	86	323	295	40	79	9	9	1	32	23	33	10	0	.268	.323	.369	.692	91.3	90.7	.326	1.1
1902	116	464	413	46	115	17	9	5	56	37	42	18	0	.278	.344	.400	.743	110.6	112.9	.355	2.5
1903	113	486	406	87	142	30	8	4	55	61	45	34	0	.350	.443	.493	.936	160.1	164.8	.447	5.4
1904	109	468	402	81	114	22	7	5	33	58	40	13	0	.284	.381	.410	.791	143.6	143.4	.384	4.2
1905	104	399	331	58	100	18	3	0	46	50	21	11	0	.302	.411	.375	.785	139.7	134.6	.388	4.1
1906	124	506	405	69	114	22	4	0	43	81	43	25	0	.281	.419	.356	.775	152.1	141.6	.395	5.9
1907	110	401	328	57	83	9	7	4	38	61	26	15	0	.253	.380	.360	.740	137.9	129.9	.373	4.2
1908	140	562	449	70	127	25	3	1	54	83	33	14	0	.283	.401	.359	.760	150.0	139.6	.381	6.7
1909	72	288	234	27	57	4	1	0	23	46	19	11	0	.244	.370	.269	.639	112.4	100.9	.335	2.0
1910	88	299	234	35	65	15	3	0	27	55	17	13	0	.278	.419	.368	.787	139.7	130.9	.397	3.3
1911	81	281	227	22	63	17	8	3	41	45	19	4	0	.278	.404	.463	.866	142.7	142.9	.413	3.1
1912	48	124	108	8	36	7	2	1	15	14	9	4	0	.333	.419	.463	.882	141.8	141.2	.419	1.3
1913	69	189	162	20	37	5	2	1	21	21	11	7	0	.228	.324	.302	.627	83.3	79.4	.309	0.8
1914	101	311	248	42	69	10	4	0	24	49	20	14	0	.278	.401	.351	.752	132.8	124.1	.375	3.1
1915	77	254	221	19	45	8	1	1	19	29	23	19	3	.204	.296	.262	.558	68.1	65.9	.280	0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1897	6	5	4	0	3	1	52	18	10	12	1	41.0	3.95	1.512	2.63	4.00	93.0	108.9	0.6
1901	2	1	0	1	0	0	10	4	4	3	0	6.0	6.00	2.333	4.50	3.92	105.9	61.6	1.1
1910	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	1	0	0	3.3	0.00	2.100	0.00	3.28	109.5	—	3.3

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

1,446

5,374

4,481

682

1,252

218

382nd-most career 3B

RBI

530

714

364th-most career BB

403

212

334th-most career SB

.2794

OBP

.3864

139th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3771

OPS

.7635

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

3.934

WHIP

1.6490

K/9

2.68

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
1902-05-30	CLE @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	6	0	10
1904-06-06	PIT @ SF Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	4	1	9
1901-07-21	BAL @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	2	0	8
1903-08-31	PHI @ SF Gameday	5	3	5	2	0	0	3	0	7
1904-07-09	SF @ STL Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	0	0	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1901-09-04	BAL @ CLE Gameday	3.0	4	0	0	0	2
1901-04-30	BAL @ MIN Gameday	3.0	6	8	4	4	1
1910-08-03	STL @ LAD Gameday	3.1	6	1	0	1	0
1901-04-26	BOS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	BOS @ BAL Gameday	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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1945 (Old Timers)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.