Roger Connor

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 220 lb

BornJuly 1, 1857 · Waterbury, CT, USA

MLB debutMay 1, 1880

Final gameMay 18, 1897

Seasons18 (1880–1897)

Troy Trojans 1880–1882; New York Gothams 1883–1884; New York Giants 1885–1891; Philadelphia Phillies 1892; New York Giants 1893–1894; St. Louis Browns 1894–1897

Percentile snapshot

1896 season — qualified batters

126

63.9

537

48.6

483

54.2

29.2

137

38.9

51.4

45.8

95.8

RBI

72.2

80.6

6.9

.284

26.4

OBP

.356

37.5

SLG

.433

66.7

OPS

.788

54.2

wRC+

104.5

54.2

OPS+

107.1

54.2

wOBA

.372

54.2

sWAR

1.2

33.3

of 73 qualified 1896 batters (min 406 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

140.7

96.5

OPS+

154.6

98.3

sWAR

65.3

99.6

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
1880	83	353	340	53	113	18	8	3	47	13	21	0	.332	.357	.459	.816	155.0	172.5	.367	3.8
1881	85	382	367	55	107	17	6	2	31	15	20	0	.292	.319	.387	.706	115.0	119.5	.323	1.4
1882	81	362	349	65	115	22	18	4	42	13	20	0	.330	.354	.530	.884	156.9	179.0	.389	3.6
1883	98	434	409	80	146	28	15	1	50	25	16	0	.357	.394	.506	.900	150.6	169.2	.397	3.7
1884	116	515	477	98	151	28	4	4	82	38	32	0	.317	.367	.417	.784	134.0	146.4	.357	4.2
1885	110	506	455	102	169	23	15	1	65	51	8	0	.371	.435	.495	.929	174.6	199.5	.429	5.9
1886	118	526	485	105	172	29	20	7	71	41	15	17	.355	.405	.540	.945	162.8	184.7	.429	5.3
1887	127	554	471	113	134	26	22	17	104	75	50	43	.285	.392	.541	.933	141.8	156.2	.418	4.0
1888	134	558	481	98	140	15	17	14	71	73	44	27	.291	.389	.480	.869	162.0	175.2	.400	5.3
1889	131	591	496	117	157	32	17	13	130	93	46	21	.317	.426	.528	.955	150.5	164.6	.446	4.9
1890	123	573	484	133	169	24	15	14	103	88	32	22	.349	.450	.548	.998	148.1	165.2	.464	4.6
1891	129	566	479	112	139	29	13	7	94	83	39	27	.290	.399	.449	.848	137.8	146.6	.407	3.7
1892	155	686	564	123	166	37	11	12	73	116	39	22	.294	.420	.463	.883	154.6	166.4	.427	5.9
1893	135	605	511	111	156	25	8	11	105	91	26	24	.305	.413	.450	.863	124.2	129.1	.415	2.9
1894	121	534	462	93	146	35	25	8	93	59	17	19	.316	.402	.552	.953	119.3	127.8	.430	2.3
1895	104	468	401	78	131	29	9	8	78	63	10	9	.327	.421	.504	.924	129.8	137.5	.432	2.7
1896	126	537	483	71	137	21	9	11	72	52	14	10	.284	.356	.433	.788	104.5	107.1	.372	1.2
1897	22	97	83	13	19	3	1	1	12	13	6	3	.229	.333	.325	.659	81.0	74.1	.325	-0.1

Career totals

1,998

256th-most career G

8,847

175th-most career PA

7,797

177th-most career AB

1,620

45th-most career R

2,467

109th-most career H

441

123rd-most career 2B

233

5th-most career 3B

138

RBI

1,323

102nd-most career RBI

1,002

125th-most career BB

455

244

255th-most career SB

.3164

78th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3969

80th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4858

188th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8827

100th-highest career OPS

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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1976 (Veterans)

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