MLB / Players

Sam Kimber

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 165 lb

BornOctober 29, 1852 · Philadelphia, PA, USA

MLB debutMay 1, 1884

Final gameSeptember 29, 1885

Seasons2 (1884–1885)

Brooklyn Atlantics 1884; Providence Grays 1885

Percentile snapshot

1884 season — qualified pitchers

60.5

25.9

65.4

SHO

74.1

364

34.6

153

14.8

24.7

122

49.4

46.9

361.3

64.2

ERA

3.81

19.8

WHIP

1.207

40.7

K/9

3.04

11.1

FIP

3.57

18.5

FIP-

110.2

29.6

ERA+

85.1

25.9

sWAR

1.0

of 82 qualified 1884 pitchers (min 109 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

0.3

55.7

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
1884	41	152	142	14	21	1	2	0	0	9	0	0	0	.148	.204	.183	.387	50.9	27.1	.187	1.0
1885	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-56.0	-100.0	.000	-0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1884	41	41	18	20	0	41	4	364	153	72	122	6	361.3	3.81	1.207	3.04	3.57	110.2	85.1	1.0
1885	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	15	10	5	4	1	8.0	11.25	2.500	4.50	5.17	183.6	25.0	-0.7

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

155

145

RBI

.1448

OBP

.2000

SLG

.1793

OPS

.3793

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

369

SO (P)

126

BB allowed

ERA

3.972

WHIP

1.2347

K/9

3.07

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.