MLB / Players

Roy Witherup

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb
BornJuly 26, 1886 · North Washington, PA, USA
MLB debutMay 14, 1906
Final gameSeptember 6, 1909
Seasons3 (1906–1909)

Boston Beaneaters 1906; Washington Senators 1908–1909

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
-3.1
0.4

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
1906815151200000200.133.133.133.267-31.4-16.9.129-1.8
1908618180300020200.167.167.167.3333.611.1.160-0.1
19091220190100000900.053.053.053.105-81.6-66.3.051-1.2

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1906830303059321914246.06.261.6962.743.52133.942.0-1.8
190866240405116831048.32.981.2215.771.5367.276.3-0.1
19091281505079322026168.04.241.4563.442.60108.356.6-1.2

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
26
PA
53
AB
52
R
1
H
6
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
2
BB
0
SO
13
SB
0
BA
.1154
OBP
.1154
SLG
.1154
OPS
.2308

Pitching

G (P)
26
GS
17
W
3
L
12
SV
0
CG
12
SHO
0
IP
162
SO (P)
71
BB allowed
47
ERA
4.435
WHIP
1.4538
K/9
3.94

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
1908-09-23MIN @ BAL Gameday402000102
1906-06-08PIT @ ATL Gameday401000001
1906-08-07PIT @ ATL Gameday311000001
1908-10-07NYY @ MIN Gameday401000001
1909-07-27ATH @ MIN Gameday301000001

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1908-10-07NYY @ MIN Gameday9.01140090
1908-09-25MIN @ CLE Gameday9.0710380
1909-08-03CLE @ MIN Gameday9.01160060
1906-07-27CHC @ ATL Gameday9.01290440
1909-07-27ATH @ MIN Gameday9.01350240

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.