Steve Hamilton
Cleveland Indians 1961; Washington Senators 1962; New York Yankees 1963; Washington Senators 1963; New York Yankees 1964–1969; Chicago White Sox 1970; New York Yankees 1970; San Francisco Giants 1971; Chicago Cubs 1972
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 484.7 | 444.3 | .914 | 0.1 |
| 1962 | 43 | 30 | 26 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .077 | .111 | .154 | .265 | -43.1 | -29.1 | .123 | 1.2 |
| 1963 | 37 | 19 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .286 | .429 | .714 | 97.7 | 100.1 | .315 | 1.2 |
| 1964 | 32 | 22 | 20 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .273 | .200 | .473 | 34.4 | 34.6 | .232 | 0.9 |
| 1965 | 46 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .286 | .167 | .452 | 41.7 | 33.4 | .237 | 2.1 |
| 1966 | 44 | 21 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .053 | .053 | .053 | .105 | -90.7 | -69.0 | .048 | 1.1 |
| 1967 | 44 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .222 | -51.8 | -32.8 | .103 | 0.3 |
| 1968 | 40 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .250 | 8.9 | -17.4 | .187 | 1.0 |
| 1969 | 38 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.9 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.6 |
| 1970 | 38 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.6 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.7 |
| 1971 | 39 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -131.8 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.6 |
| 1972 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -141.4 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 3.0 | 3.00 | 1.667 | 12.00 | 2.84 | 72.0 | 131.4 | 0.1 |
| 1962 | 41 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 103 | 45 | 39 | 83 | 10 | 107.3 | 3.77 | 1.323 | 6.96 | 3.35 | 85.0 | 104.5 | 1.2 |
| 1963 | 37 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 21 | 26 | 64 | 3 | 64.3 | 2.94 | 1.244 | 8.95 | 2.34 | 65.9 | 120.6 | 1.2 |
| 1964 | 30 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 55 | 22 | 15 | 49 | 6 | 60.3 | 3.28 | 1.160 | 7.31 | 2.87 | 79.3 | 110.4 | 0.9 |
| 1965 | 46 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 9 | 16 | 51 | 2 | 58.3 | 1.39 | 1.080 | 7.87 | 1.92 | 56.2 | 245.9 | 2.1 |
| 1966 | 44 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 69 | 30 | 22 | 57 | 8 | 90.0 | 3.00 | 1.011 | 5.70 | 3.16 | 94.9 | 110.9 | 1.1 |
| 1967 | 44 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 24 | 23 | 55 | 7 | 62.0 | 3.48 | 1.290 | 7.98 | 3.27 | 104.8 | 89.7 | 0.3 |
| 1968 | 40 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 12 | 13 | 42 | 0 | 50.7 | 2.13 | .987 | 7.46 | 1.39 | 48.3 | 135.6 | 1.0 |
| 1969 | 38 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 21 | 21 | 39 | 7 | 57.0 | 3.32 | 1.053 | 6.16 | 3.69 | 106.4 | 104.7 | 0.6 |
| 1970 | 38 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 16 | 17 | 36 | 3 | 48.3 | 2.98 | 1.179 | 6.70 | 2.86 | 80.6 | 119.5 | 0.7 |
| 1971 | 39 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 15 | 11 | 38 | 4 | 44.7 | 3.02 | .896 | 7.66 | 2.81 | 81.9 | 113.6 | 0.6 |
| 1972 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 17.0 | 4.76 | 1.882 | 6.88 | 3.35 | 89.5 | 78.6 | -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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963-05-11 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1962-08-31 | LAA @ TEX Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1964-07-17 | CLE @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1962-07-15 | TEX @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1964-06-22 | NYY @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963-05-11 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 8.1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 1964-06-12 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 1962-08-12 | CLE @ TEX Gameday | 7.0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| 1968-08-25 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 5.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 1966-05-21 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 4.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 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.