Wilbert Robinson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 215 lb

BornJune 29, 1864 · Bolton, MA, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1886

Final gameSeptember 29, 1902

Seasons17 (1886–1902)

Philadelphia Athletics 1886–1889; Baltimore Orioles 1890; Philadelphia Athletics 1890; Baltimore Orioles 1891–1899; St. Louis Cardinals 1900; Baltimore Orioles 1901–1902

Percentile snapshot

1894 season — qualified batters

109

29.4

474

27.1

414

24.7

16.5

146

37.6

36.5

12.9

14.1

RBI

68.2

50.6

49.4

14.1

.353

72.9

OBP

.421

67.1

SLG

.430

35.3

OPS

.851

45.9

wRC+

106.6

55.3

OPS+

105.3

49.4

wOBA

.402

54.1

sWAR

2.5

64.7

of 86 qualified 1894 batters (min 399 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

85.2

16.2

OPS+

83.2

13.4

sWAR

16.4

91.8

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1886	87	366	342	57	69	11	3	1	30	21	0	33	.202	.254	.260	.514	72.4	61.8	.252	0.2
1887	68	279	264	28	60	6	2	1	24	14	15	15	.227	.269	.277	.545	63.4	51.3	.263	0.0
1888	66	263	254	32	62	7	2	1	31	9	26	11	.244	.270	.299	.569	84.3	82.0	.272	0.8
1889	69	271	264	31	61	13	2	0	28	6	34	9	.231	.251	.295	.546	61.4	55.1	.259	0.0
1890	96	399	377	39	91	14	4	4	46	19	0	21	.241	.283	.332	.615	80.8	80.6	.299	1.0
1891	93	350	334	25	72	8	5	2	46	16	37	18	.216	.251	.287	.539	58.6	53.8	.262	-0.1
1892	90	347	330	36	88	14	4	2	57	15	35	5	.267	.303	.352	.654	94.2	97.3	.314	1.5
1893	95	387	359	49	120	21	3	3	57	26	22	17	.334	.382	.435	.817	111.7	116.7	.389	2.4
1894	109	474	414	69	146	21	4	1	98	46	18	12	.353	.421	.430	.851	106.6	105.3	.402	2.5
1895	77	301	282	38	74	19	1	0	48	12	19	11	.262	.295	.337	.632	66.7	62.5	.298	0.1
1896	67	264	245	43	85	9	6	2	38	14	13	9	.347	.385	.457	.842	116.1	121.2	.395	1.9
1897	48	191	181	25	57	9	0	0	23	8	8	0	.315	.347	.365	.712	88.5	87.9	.340	0.7
1898	79	313	289	29	80	12	2	0	38	16	18	3	.277	.317	.332	.649	85.4	85.7	.316	1.1
1899	108	395	356	40	101	15	2	0	47	31	25	5	.284	.344	.337	.682	89.6	87.0	.333	1.6
1900	60	224	210	26	52	5	1	0	28	11	20	7	.248	.291	.281	.572	62.2	58.3	.279	0.1
1901	68	254	239	32	72	12	3	0	26	10	16	9	.301	.335	.377	.711	95.2	96.0	.334	1.2
1902	91	352	335	38	98	16	7	1	57	12	17	11	.293	.321	.391	.712	89.5	92.1	.331	1.4

Career totals

1,371

5,430

5,075

637

1,388

212

RBI

722

286

323

196

378th-most career SB

.2735

OBP

.3157

SLG

.3460

OPS

.6617

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	RBI	TB
1901-06-25	DET @ BAL Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	5
1902-09-29	BOS @ BAL Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	2	4
1902-05-16	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	0	3	1	0	1	4
1901-06-17	BAL @ BAL Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	0	4
1902-07-05	BAL @ BOS Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-26	BOS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	BOS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	BAL @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-30	BAL @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-05-01	BAL @ MIN 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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1945 (Old Timers)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.