Walter Thornton
Chicago Colts 1895–1897; Chicago Orphans 1898
Percentile snapshot
1898 season — qualified pitchers
of 49 qualified 1898 pitchers (min 152 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1895 | 8 | 25 | 22 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .318 | .400 | .500 | .900 | 123.6 | 131.0 | .418 | 0.1 |
| 1896 | 9 | 27 | 22 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | .364 | .481 | .455 | .936 | 145.1 | 147.3 | .453 | 0.2 |
| 1897 | 75 | 305 | 265 | 39 | 85 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 55 | 30 | 16 | 13 | 0 | .321 | .402 | .400 | .802 | 112.8 | 111.9 | .388 | 2.1 |
| 1898 | 62 | 235 | 210 | 34 | 62 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 22 | 14 | 8 | 0 | .295 | .362 | .338 | .700 | 102.5 | 100.5 | .347 | 3.6 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1895 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 58 | 27 | 31 | 13 | 3 | 40.0 | 6.08 | 2.225 | 2.93 | 6.61 | 138.4 | 78.6 | 0.1 |
| 1896 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 23.7 | 5.70 | 1.817 | 3.80 | 4.64 | 106.6 | 76.4 | 0.2 |
| 1897 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 164 | 68 | 51 | 55 | 4 | 130.3 | 4.70 | 1.650 | 3.80 | 4.19 | 97.3 | 91.6 | 2.1 |
| 1898 | 28 | 25 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 226 | 80 | 56 | 56 | 4 | 215.3 | 3.34 | 1.310 | 2.34 | 3.52 | 97.7 | 107.8 | 3.6 |
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
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.