Thornton Kipper
Philadelphia Phillies 1953–1955
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 20 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .182 | -70.3 | -51.9 | .082 | 0.1 |
| 1954 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -135.2 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.5 |
| 1955 | 24 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 79.1 | 79.9 | .303 | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 20 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 24 | 12 | 15 | 8 | 45.7 | 4.73 | 1.555 | 2.96 | 5.02 | 119.9 | 88.6 | 0.1 |
| 1954 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 13.7 | 7.90 | 2.488 | 3.29 | 4.54 | 113.1 | 50.8 | -0.5 |
| 1955 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 22 | 22 | 15 | 4 | 39.7 | 4.99 | 1.739 | 3.40 | 4.60 | 115.9 | 79.5 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-07-04 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1955-04-24 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1953-04-16 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-05-12 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-05-21 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-06-12 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 6.1 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1955-04-24 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 3.1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1953-08-09 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 2.1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 1953-07-08 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 2.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1954-09-08 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 1.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 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.