MLB / Players

Sam Wright

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 7 in · 146 lb
BornNovember 25, 1848 · New York, NY, USA
MLB debutApril 19, 1875
Final gameSeptember 23, 1881
Seasons4 (1875–1881)

New Haven Elm Citys 1875; Boston Red Caps 1876; Cincinnati Reds 1880; Boston Red Caps 1881

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
-0.4
18.3

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
187533128127102440051110.189.195.220.41666.343.3.1900.0
18762880100000000.125.125.125.25022.6-16.7.1160.0
1880934340300000500.088.088.088.176-9.4-40.4.080-0.3
18811440100000000.250.250.250.50064.056.6.2290.0

Career totals

G
45
PA
174
AB
173
R
10
H
29
2B
4
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
5
BB
1
SO
6
SB
1
BA
.1676
OBP
.1724
SLG
.1908
OPS
.3632

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.