MLB / Players

Tom Forster

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 9 in · 153 lb
BornMay 1, 1859 · New York, NY, USA
MLB debutAugust 4, 1882
Final gameAugust 23, 1886
Seasons4 (1882–1886)

Detroit Wolverines 1882; Pittsburg Alleghenys 1884; New York Metropolitans 1885–1886

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
0.0
44.9

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
188221817657000251200.092.148.092.24015.2-20.7.122-0.6
188435133126102850007000.222.263.262.52580.871.7.2450.3
18855723121328477201817000.221.281.272.55484.275.4.2660.4
18866727425133493212020090.195.263.235.49870.956.9.2490.0

Career totals

G
180
PA
719
AB
666
R
76
H
131
2B
15
3B
4
HR
1
RBI
40
BB
49
SO
12
SB
9
BA
.1967
OBP
.2559
SLG
.2357
OPS
.4916

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.