MLB / Players

Sam Leever

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornDecember 23, 1871 · Goshen, OH, USA

MLB debutMay 26, 1898

Final gameSeptember 26, 1910

Seasons13 (1898–1910)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1898–1910

Percentile snapshot

1908 season — qualified pitchers

28.4

60.5

76.5

74.1

33.3

SHO

65.4

179

72.8

74.1

192.7

33.3

ERA

2.10

64.2

WHIP

1.142

53.1

K/9

1.31

FIP

2.46

45.7

FIP-

105.4

30.9

ERA+

111.1

sWAR

2.5

54.3

of 82 qualified 1908 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

124.0

93.2

sWAR

44.3

98.3

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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
1898	5	14	12	2	3	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	.250	.357	.250	.607	86.0	74.4	.317	0.8
1899	51	161	146	15	33	6	4	0	18	8	19	0	.226	.271	.322	.593	63.3	62.1	.284	6.6
1900	30	90	88	9	18	2	2	1	5	2	9	1	.205	.222	.307	.529	44.6	45.2	.247	4.6
1901	21	79	71	10	13	1	0	0	4	5	15	1	.183	.247	.197	.444	37.0	30.0	.225	2.5
1902	29	93	90	6	16	3	2	0	8	3	10	1	.178	.204	.256	.460	37.1	41.5	.224	3.1
1903	36	123	115	11	19	0	1	0	12	4	18	0	.165	.193	.183	.376	9.8	7.0	.185	6.2
1904	34	107	99	12	26	2	2	1	14	4	10	0	.263	.305	.354	.658	99.4	101.8	.316	5.1
1905	33	94	88	4	9	2	1	0	5	4	10	0	.102	.141	.148	.289	-15.7	-13.8	.145	2.7
1906	36	102	95	9	20	1	1	0	5	5	12	0	.211	.257	.242	.500	50.4	54.1	.251	4.1
1907	31	81	73	3	11	0	0	0	2	4	11	0	.151	.195	.151	.345	0.9	8.3	.179	4.3
1908	38	68	61	5	9	0	1	0	3	4	8	1	.148	.212	.180	.392	22.8	25.8	.202	2.5
1909	19	27	24	2	4	0	0	0	1	3	7	0	.167	.259	.167	.426	37.8	32.4	.229	0.5
1910	26	35	31	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	8	0	.065	.121	.065	.186	-53.8	-46.1	.105	1.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1898	5	3	1	0	0	2	0	26	9	5	15	0	33.0	2.45	.939	4.09	2.40	66.7	146.8	0.8
1899	51	39	21	23	3	35	4	353	134	122	121	7	379.0	3.18	1.253	2.87	3.59	93.4	120.9	6.6
1900	30	29	15	13	0	25	3	236	70	48	84	2	232.7	2.71	1.221	3.25	2.94	79.5	136.5	4.6
1901	21	20	14	5	0	18	2	182	56	39	82	2	176.0	2.86	1.256	4.19	2.94	89.2	114.9	2.5
1902	28	26	15	7	2	23	4	203	59	31	86	2	222.0	2.39	1.054	3.49	2.40	86.3	116.3	3.1
1903	36	34	25	7	1	30	7	255	65	60	90	2	284.3	2.06	1.108	2.85	2.87	87.6	159.5	6.2
1904	34	32	18	11	0	26	1	224	61	54	63	2	253.3	2.17	1.097	2.24	2.64	95.8	126.9	5.1
1905	33	29	20	5	1	20	3	199	69	54	81	3	229.7	2.70	1.102	3.17	2.91	97.4	110.5	2.7
1906	36	31	22	7	0	25	6	232	67	48	76	3	260.3	2.32	1.076	2.63	2.46	91.7	115.8	4.1
1907	31	24	14	9	0	17	5	182	40	46	65	3	216.7	1.66	1.052	2.70	2.34	95.1	148.2	4.3
1908	38	20	15	7	2	14	4	179	45	41	28	1	192.7	2.10	1.142	1.31	2.46	105.4	111.1	2.5
1909	19	4	8	1	2	2	0	74	22	14	23	0	70.0	2.83	1.257	2.96	2.26	87.5	91.5	0.5
1910	26	8	6	5	2	4	0	104	34	25	33	2	111.0	2.76	1.162	2.68	2.86	92.5	112.0	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

389

1,074

993

183

RBI

138

.1843

OBP

.2278

SLG

.2356

OPS

.4634

Pitching

G (P)

388

299

363rd-most career GS

194

135th-most career W

100

241

94th-most career CG

SHO

51st-most career SHO

2,661

213th-most career IP

SO (P)

847

BB allowed

587

ERA

2.473

39th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1411

62nd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

2.87

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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1902-05-20	PHI @ PIT Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	1	4
1905-07-08	PIT @ CHC Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	1	4
1904-07-30	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	4
1906-07-01	PIT @ STL Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	4
1904-09-30	PIT @ ATL Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	2	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1904-09-04	PIT @ CIN Gameday	12.0	14	4	0	2	7
1901-09-20	PHI @ PIT Gameday	9.0	6	2	0	3	7
1902-09-21	PIT @ CHC Gameday	9.0	8	1	1	0	7
1902-10-02	CIN @ PIT Gameday	9.0	15	6	6	2	7
1903-05-11	CIN @ PIT Gameday	9.0	8	3	0	3	7

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.