MLB / Players

Tom Seaton

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb
BornAugust 30, 1887 · Blair, NE, USA
MLB debutApril 13, 1912
Final gameJuly 2, 1917
Seasons6 (1912–1917)

Philadelphia Phillies 1912–1913; Brooklyn Tip-Tops 1914–1915; Newark Pepper 1915; Chicago Cubs 1916–1917

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified pitchers

G
44
81.6
GS
33
78.4
W
14
52.8
L
17
10.4
SV
4
92
CG
20
76
SHO
0
0
H
260
11.2
ER
115
0
BB
120
4.8
SO
114
72
HR
7
10.4
IP
264.3
72
ERA
3.92
6.4
WHIP
1.438
5.6
K/9
3.88
52
FIP
3.39
8
FIP-
112.0
13.6
ERA+
77.4
8
sWAR
0.1
8

of 126 qualified 1915 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+
101.6
44.5
sWAR
14.0
90.4

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1912448883818310513200.217.226.277.50325.034.0.2353.3
191352119110812011263500.109.155.155.310-22.0-13.0.1545.3
1914441171071422321793930.206.267.299.56658.260.8.2734.0
191545104928204121543530.217.250.348.59867.075.0.2810.1
191631403847110211520.184.205.263.46830.742.5.2210.2
19171625212510013700.238.333.286.61990.785.3.3091.2

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1912442716122162246931061188255.03.281.3804.163.58100.5108.53.3
1913523527121215262931361686322.32.601.2354.693.1896.0127.65.3
19144438251422672991021021726302.73.031.3255.112.9792.7105.74.0
19154433141742002601151201147264.33.921.4383.883.39112.077.40.1
19163112661401084443453121.03.271.2483.353.05115.780.60.2
19171695413160212327074.72.531.1123.252.6291.7113.01.2

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

G
232
PA
493
AB
451
R
44
H
84
2B
12
3B
6
HR
4
RBI
32
BB
24
SO
163
SB
8
BA
.1863
OBP
.2274
SLG
.2661
OPS
.4935

Pitching

G (P)
231
GS
154
W
93
L
65
SV
11
CG
90
478th-most career CG
SHO
15
396th-most career SHO
IP
1,340
SO (P)
644
BB allowed
530
ERA
3.143
231st-lowest career ERA
WHIP
1.3172
K/9
4.33

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1913-05-21CIN @ PHI Gameday412001205
1912-07-01LAD @ PHI Gameday423100204
1912-05-07PHI @ CIN Gameday311010003
1913-05-07STL @ PHI Gameday311010003
1916-05-24PHI @ CHC Gameday311010003

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1913-07-04ATL @ PHI Gameday9.05224100
1912-10-02PHI @ SF Gameday9.0610790
1913-04-18PHI @ LAD Gameday9.0500390
1913-04-22PHI @ SF Gameday13.01221280
1912-08-06CHC @ PHI Gameday9.0610180

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.