MLB / Players

Sparrow Morton

HandednessThrows Left
BornAugust 7, 1858 · Philadelphia, PA, USA
MLB debutJuly 15, 1884
Final gameJuly 26, 1884
Seasons1 (1884–1884)

Philadelphia Quakers 1884

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
-0.1
28.4

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
18842880310000300.375.375.500.875151.3173.1.391-0.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
188422020201610115017.05.291.5882.654.21141.456.2-0.1

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
2
PA
8
AB
8
R
0
H
3
2B
1
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
3
SB
0
BA
.3750
OBP
.3750
SLG
.5000
OPS
.8750

Pitching

G (P)
2
GS
2
W
0
L
2
SV
0
CG
2
SHO
0
IP
17
SO (P)
5
BB allowed
11
ERA
5.294
WHIP
1.5882
K/9
2.65

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.