MLB / Players

Theodore Breitenstein

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 167 lb

BornJune 1, 1869 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 28, 1891

Final gameMay 9, 1901

Seasons11 (1891–1901)

St. Louis Browns 1891–1896; Cincinnati Reds 1897–1900; St. Louis Cardinals 1901

Percentile snapshot

1900 season — qualified pitchers

18.9

16.2

67.6

24.3

SHO

13.5

205

78.4

70.3

29.7

16.2

56.8

192.3

18.9

ERA

3.65

43.2

WHIP

1.477

24.3

K/9

1.82

13.5

FIP

4.14

10.8

FIP-

112.1

16.2

ERA+

101.2

44.4

sWAR

1.9

37.8

of 38 qualified 1900 pitchers (min 144 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

107.4

65.6

sWAR

36.6

97.5

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
1891	6	14	12	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	.000	.143	.000	.143	-15.6	-58.7	.112	0.6
1892	47	149	131	16	16	1	1	0	6	16	20	4	.122	.228	.145	.373	34.8	13.2	.204	-1.7
1893	49	179	160	20	29	1	1	1	14	18	15	3	.181	.268	.219	.487	45.7	29.9	.250	8.2
1894	63	224	182	27	40	7	2	0	13	31	19	3	.220	.340	.280	.620	65.5	50.6	.311	6.3
1895	73	253	221	25	42	2	0	0	18	29	22	5	.190	.287	.199	.486	45.6	26.6	.254	5.2
1896	51	182	162	21	42	5	2	0	12	13	26	8	.259	.314	.315	.629	71.3	66.0	.305	3.3
1897	41	134	124	16	33	4	6	0	23	6	5	5	.266	.300	.395	.695	80.7	82.5	.324	5.5
1898	41	142	121	16	26	2	1	0	17	16	9	0	.215	.307	.248	.555	68.2	59.0	.285	3.9
1899	33	119	105	18	37	4	1	1	11	10	11	1	.352	.409	.438	.847	128.6	132.0	.406	3.7
1900	41	136	126	12	24	1	1	2	12	9	18	0	.190	.244	.262	.506	44.6	39.7	.247	1.9
1901	3	6	6	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	92.6	95.1	.316	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1891	6	1	2	0	1	1	1	15	7	14	13	2	28.7	2.20	1.012	4.08	4.12	111.1	168.7	0.6
1892	39	32	9	19	0	28	1	280	147	148	126	8	282.3	4.69	1.516	4.02	3.55	108.0	70.1	-1.7
1893	48	42	19	24	1	38	1	359	135	156	102	8	382.7	3.18	1.346	2.40	4.27	91.6	146.8	8.2
1894	56	50	27	23	0	46	1	497	238	191	140	21	447.3	4.79	1.538	2.82	5.15	96.7	111.3	6.3
1895	55	51	19	30	1	47	1	468	213	182	131	16	438.7	4.37	1.482	2.69	4.80	100.5	109.2	5.2
1896	44	43	18	26	0	37	1	376	169	138	114	12	339.7	4.48	1.513	3.02	4.34	99.6	97.3	3.3
1897	40	39	23	12	0	32	2	345	129	91	98	3	320.3	3.62	1.361	2.75	3.77	87.5	118.7	5.5
1898	39	37	20	14	0	32	3	313	120	123	68	2	315.7	3.42	1.381	1.94	3.69	102.5	105.3	3.9
1899	26	24	13	9	0	21	0	219	84	71	59	2	210.7	3.59	1.377	2.52	3.64	94.6	107.2	3.7
1900	24	20	10	10	0	18	1	205	78	79	39	4	192.3	3.65	1.477	1.82	4.14	112.1	101.2	1.9
1901	3	3	0	3	0	1	0	24	11	14	3	1	15.0	6.60	2.533	1.80	6.20	190.0	49.5	-0.4

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

448

1,538

1,350

174

291

RBI

126

150

145

.2156

OBP

.2968

SLG

.2667

OPS

.5635

Pitching

G (P)

380

342

230th-most career GS

160

232nd-most career W

170

94th-most career L

301

41st-most career CG

SHO

2,973

141st-most career IP

SO (P)

893

BB allowed

1,207

50th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.029

WHIP

1.4489

K/9

2.70

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	TB
1901-04-29	STL @ PIT Gameday	2	1	1	1
1901-05-05	CIN @ STL Gameday	4	0	1	1
1901-04-19	CHC @ STL Gameday	0	0	0	0
1901-04-20	CHC @ STL Gameday	0	0	0	0
1901-04-21	CHC @ STL Gameday	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-05-05	CIN @ STL Gameday	9.0	10	7	6	5	3	1
1901-04-29	STL @ PIT Gameday	5.0	10	13	2	5	0	0
1901-05-09	STL @ CIN Gameday	1.0	4	6	3	4	0	0
1901-04-19	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-20	CHC @ STL 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.