William Selden
New York Gorhams 1891; Cuban Giants 1894; Cuban X Giants 1897–1899
Percentile snapshot
1894 season — qualified batters
of 86 qualified 1894 batters (min 3 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information
1897 season — qualified pitchers
of 54 qualified 1897 pitchers (min 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 9 | 45 | 40 | 10 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | .400 | .415 | .650 | 1.065 | 143.3 | 176.8 | .469 | 1.1 |
| 1894 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | -9.1 | -33.1 | .174 | 0.2 |
| 1897 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .308 | .000 | .308 | 46.3 | -17.8 | .226 | 0.3 |
| 1898 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .375 | .375 | .375 | .750 | 117.9 | 121.1 | .344 | 0.1 |
| 1899 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .286 | .333 | .619 | 65.3 | 56.4 | .290 | 0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 30.3 | 0.59 | .659 | 5.04 | 0.89 | 30.0 | 499.2 | 1.1 |
| 1894 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 9.0 | 4.00 | 1.556 | 4.00 | 4.00 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.2 |
| 1897 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 18.0 | 3.00 | .944 | 7.00 | 2.51 | 59.2 | 141.6 | 0.3 |
| 1898 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 9.0 | 2.00 | 1.444 | 4.00 | 0.82 | 43.3 | 94.2 | 0.1 |
| 1899 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 18.0 | 3.00 | 1.389 | 1.00 | 4.48 | 122.7 | 121.6 | 0.3 |
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.