Tom Needham
Boston Beaneaters 1904–1906; Boston Doves 1907; New York Giants 1908; Chicago Cubs 1909–1914
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 | 84 | 282 | 269 | 18 | 70 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 11 | 32 | 3 | 0 | .260 | .292 | .372 | .664 | 101.1 | 105.4 | .316 | 1.8 |
| 1905 | 83 | 301 | 271 | 21 | 59 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 24 | 36 | 3 | 0 | .218 | .293 | .269 | .563 | 70.9 | 67.7 | .281 | 0.6 |
| 1906 | 83 | 302 | 285 | 11 | 54 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 13 | 25 | 3 | 0 | .189 | .230 | .242 | .472 | 41.4 | 47.1 | .235 | -0.4 |
| 1907 | 86 | 289 | 260 | 19 | 51 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 18 | 29 | 4 | 0 | .196 | .264 | .246 | .510 | 55.5 | 57.8 | .259 | 0.3 |
| 1908 | 54 | 115 | 91 | 8 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .209 | .339 | .242 | .581 | 95.3 | 83.5 | .306 | 0.8 |
| 1909 | 13 | 28 | 28 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -23.7 | -10.8 | .138 | -0.3 |
| 1910 | 31 | 92 | 76 | 9 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 0 | .184 | .287 | .250 | .537 | 63.8 | 59.8 | .277 | 0.2 |
| 1911 | 27 | 73 | 62 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 0 | .194 | .315 | .226 | .541 | 63.3 | 53.8 | .283 | 0.1 |
| 1912 | 33 | 104 | 90 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 3 | 0 | .178 | .260 | .233 | .493 | 39.0 | 36.4 | .248 | -0.2 |
| 1913 | 20 | 47 | 42 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .238 | .304 | .381 | .685 | 92.6 | 94.8 | .323 | 0.2 |
| 1914 | 9 | 18 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .118 | .167 | .176 | .343 | -5.5 | 2.0 | .171 | -0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906-09-05 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1904-09-05 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1913-08-03 | LAD @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1904-10-03 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1907-06-19 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904-04-14 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1904-04-15 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1904-04-16 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1904-04-17 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1904-04-19 | ATL @ LAD 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.