Sammy Strang

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 160 lb

BornDecember 16, 1876 · Chattanooga, TN, USA

MLB debutJuly 10, 1896

Final gameJune 4, 1908

Seasons10 (1896–1908)

Louisville Colonels 1896; Chicago Orphans 1900; New York Giants 1901; Chicago White Sox 1902; Chicago Orphans 1902; Brooklyn Superbas 1903–1904; New York Giants 1905–1908

Percentile snapshot

1903 season — qualified batters

135

67.3

601

89.4

508

66.4

101

94.7

138

56.6

50.4

31.9

RBI

25.7

95.6

24.8

97.3

.272

40.7

OBP

.376

80.5

SLG

.333

OPS

.709

wRC+

110.2

55.8

OPS+

104.8

46.9

wOBA

.354

65.5

sWAR

3.0

69.9

of 114 qualified 1903 batters (min 430 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

118.0

76.3

OPS+

113.1

68.6

sWAR

21.2

94.1

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
1896	14	52	46	6	12	0	0	0	7	6	6	4	.261	.346	.261	.607	72.9	61.2	.308	0.0
1900	27	116	102	15	29	3	0	0	9	8	18	1	.284	.348	.314	.662	87.6	83.3	.325	0.3
1901	135	577	493	55	139	14	6	1	34	59	77	40	.282	.364	.341	.705	109.0	105.3	.345	2.7
1902	140	639	547	109	162	18	5	3	46	76	68	39	.296	.387	.364	.751	117.5	113.7	.363	3.8
1903	135	601	508	101	138	21	5	0	38	75	49	46	.272	.376	.333	.709	110.2	104.8	.354	3.0
1904	77	324	271	28	52	11	0	1	9	45	43	16	.192	.316	.244	.559	84.2	73.5	.291	0.7
1905	111	369	294	51	76	9	4	3	29	58	44	23	.259	.389	.347	.736	127.3	120.0	.369	2.5
1906	113	376	313	50	100	16	4	4	49	54	39	21	.319	.423	.435	.857	171.0	167.3	.422	4.6
1907	123	378	306	56	77	20	4	4	30	60	45	21	.252	.388	.382	.770	147.3	139.4	.387	3.3
1908	28	80	53	8	5	0	0	0	2	23	5	5	.094	.385	.094	.479	96.2	52.2	.307	0.3

Career totals

903

3,512

2,933

479

790

112

RBI

253

464

394

216

321st-most career SB

.2693

OBP

.3770

212th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3430

OPS

.7200

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	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1906-10-04	PHI @ SF Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	1	4	0	7
1901-04-30	SF @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	0	1	0	7
1907-07-11	CIN @ SF Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	1	3	1	7
1903-07-29	PHI @ LAD Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	0	0	0	6
1906-09-12	SF @ ATL Gameday	5	0	3	1	1	0	5	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-19	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-30	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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.