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Welcome Gaston

HandednessThrows Left
BornDecember 19, 1874 · Senecaville, OH, USA
MLB debutOctober 6, 1898
Final gameApril 28, 1899
Seasons2 (1898–1899)

Brooklyn Bridegrooms 1898; Brooklyn Superbas 1899

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
0.4
57.3

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
18982882101010200.125.125.375.50033.141.6.2230.3
189912101100200001.0001.0002.0003.000481.7713.41.0640.2

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1898221102017590016.02.811.6250.004.45123.6128.10.3
18991000000314003.03.002.3330.007.94206.3128.30.2

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
3
PA
10
AB
9
R
2
H
2
2B
1
3B
1
HR
0
RBI
3
BB
0
SO
2
SB
0
BA
.2222
OBP
.3000
SLG
.5556
OPS
.8556

Pitching

G (P)
3
GS
2
W
1
L
1
SV
0
CG
2
SHO
0
IP
19
SO (P)
0
BB allowed
13
ERA
2.842
WHIP
1.7368
K/9
0.00

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.