MLB / Players

Tom Sullivan

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 165 lb
BornMarch 1, 1860 · New York, NY, USA
MLB debutSeptember 27, 1884
Final gameJune 23, 1889
Seasons4 (1884–1889)

Columbus Buckeyes 1884; Louisville Colonels 1886; Kansas City Cowboys 1888–1889

Percentile snapshot

1888 season — qualified pitchers

G
24
17.3
GS
24
19.2
W
8
9.6
L
16
48.1
SV
0
0
CG
24
19.2
SHO
0
0
H
227
73.1
ER
81
71.2
BB
68
48.1
SO
84
21.2
HR
2
94.2
IP
214.7
23.1
ERA
3.40
19.2
WHIP
1.374
5.8
K/9
3.52
34.6
FIP
3.33
15.4
FIP-
108.9
25
ERA+
90.1
23.1
sWAR
0.9
11.5

of 53 qualified 1888 pitchers (min 132 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
0.5
58.2

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
1884412111100001000.091.167.091.25824.9-13.8.1360.0
1886931271300004000.111.226.111.33742.37.1.1900.2
188828101921010100593470.109.188.120.30829.8-0.7.1650.9
18891040338510015800.152.300.182.48263.538.3.263-0.6

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
188444220404214312231.04.061.4523.483.67113.179.80.0
1886992708094333327675.03.961.6933.244.84140.686.90.2
1888242481602402278168842214.73.401.3743.523.33108.990.10.9
18891010280100111554824287.35.671.8212.474.66121.167.8-0.6

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
51
PA
184
AB
163
R
20
H
19
2B
2
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
6
BB
19
SO
42
SB
7
BA
.1166
OBP
.2174
SLG
.1288
OPS
.3462

Pitching

G (P)
47
GS
47
W
14
L
33
SV
0
CG
46
SHO
0
IP
408
SO (P)
147
BB allowed
152
ERA
4.037
WHIP
1.5343
K/9
3.24

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.