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Chief Wilson

John Owen Wilson

Position: Rightfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: August 21, 1883 in Austin, TX(All Transactions)
Debut: April 15, 1908 (Age 24)
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Cardinals 1908-1916

Final Game: October 1, 1916 (Age 33)
Died: February 22, 1954 in Bertram, TX
Buried: Austin Memorial Park, Austin, TX
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Standard Batting

Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1908 24 PIT NL 144 572 529 47 120 8 7 3 43 12 22 66 .227 .260 .285 .546 74 151 2 19 *O
1909 25 PIT NL 154 614 569 64 155 22 12 4 59 17 19 66 .272 .303 .374 .677 106 213 6 20 *O
1910 26 PIT NL 146 579 536 59 148 14 13 4 50 8 21 68 .276 .312 .373 .685 94 200 7 15 *O
1911 27 PIT NL 148 603 544 72 163 34 12 12 107 10 41 55 .300 .353 .472 .826 126 257 4 14 *O
1912 28 PIT NL 152 643 583 80 175 19 36 11 95 16 35 67 .300 .342 .513 .855 133 299 2 23 *O MVP-8
1913 29 PIT NL 155 627 580 71 154 12 14 10 73 9 10 32 62 .266 .307 .386 .694 101 224 3 12 *O
1914 30 STL NL 154 626 580 64 150 27 12 9 73 14 32 66 .259 .302 .393 .695 108 228 4 10 *O
1915 31 STL NL 107 388 348 33 96 13 6 3 39 8 15 19 43 .276 .321 .374 .694 110 130 4 17 *O
1916 32 STL NL 120 386 355 30 85 8 2 3 32 4 20 46 .239 .289 .299 .588 82 106 5 9 *O89
9 Yrs 1280 5038 4624 520 1246 157 114 59 571 98 25 241 539 .269 .311 .391 .702 106 1808 37 139
162 Game Avg. 162 638 585 66 158 20 14 7 72 12 31 68 .269 .311 .391 .702 106 229 5 18
PIT (6 yrs) 899 3638 3341 393 915 109 94 44 427 72 10 170 384 .274 .314 .402 .716 107 1344 24 103
STL (3 yrs) 381 1400 1283 127 331 48 20 15 144 26 15 71 155 .258 .304 .362 .665 101 464 13 36

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.2): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg G PA Rbat Rbaser Rdp Rfield Rpos RAA WAA Rrep RAR WAR waaWL% 162WL% oWAR dWAR oRAR Salary Pos Awards
1908 24 PIT NL 144 572 -15 -1 0 -1 -7 -23 -3.1 19 -5 -1.1 .479 .481 -0.9 -1.0 -4 *O
1909 25 PIT NL 154 614 1 -1 0 8 -8 0 0.1 20 20 2.2 .500 .500 1.1 0.1 12 *O
1910 26 PIT NL 146 579 -7 -1 0 2 -8 -13 -1.4 18 5 0.3 .490 .491 0.1 -0.6 3 *O
1911 27 PIT NL 148 603 17 -1 0 4 -8 12 1.1 19 31 3.1 .508 .508 2.8 -0.5 27 *O
1912 28 PIT NL 152 643 21 -1 0 7 -6 21 2.1 20 41 4.1 .514 .513 3.5 0.1 34 *O MVP-8
1913 29 PIT NL 155 627 -0 -0 0 6 -8 -2 -0.2 19 17 1.7 .498 .498 1.0 -0.2 11 *O
1914 30 STL NL 154 626 3 -1 0 10 -8 4 0.4 19 24 2.4 .503 .503 1.4 0.1 14 *O
1915 31 STL NL 107 388 3 -3 0 5 -4 2 0.1 12 14 1.4 .502 .501 0.9 0.1 9 *O
1916 32 STL NL 120 386 -7 -0 0 -3 -5 -15 -1.9 12 -3 -0.6 .484 .488 -0.3 -1.0 0 *O89
9 Seasons 1280 5038 17 -8 0 38 -61 -14 -2.8 157 143 13.5 .498 .498 9.6 -2.8 105
PIT (6 yrs) 899 3638 17 -4 0 26 -44 -5 -1.4 114 109 10.3 .499 .499 7.6 -2.1 83
STL (3 yrs) 381 1400 -1 -4 0 12 -16 -9 -1.4 43 34 3.2 .497 .498 2.0 -0.7 22

Advanced Batting

Year Age Tm Lg PA Outs RC RC/G AIR BAbip BA lgBA OBP lgOBP SLG lgSLG OPS lgOPS OPS+ OWn% BtRuns BtWins TotA SecA ISO PwrSpd
1908 24 PIT NL 572 428 39 2.4 72 .254 .227 .247 .260 .308 .285 .318 .546 .626 74 .410 -17.7 -2.2 .457 .123 .059 4.8
1909 25 PIT NL 614 434 63 3.9 80 .303 .272 .256 .303 .325 .374 .331 .677 .655 106 .586 0.5 0.1 .616 .165 .102 6.5
1910 26 PIT NL 579 403 61 4.1 93 .310 .276 .271 .312 .346 .373 .359 .685 .705 94 .547 -8.2 -0.9 .608 .151 .097 5.3
1911 27 PIT NL 603 395 90 6.1 99 .317 .300 .273 .353 .351 .472 .376 .826 .727 126 .685 16.4 1.7 .819 .267 .173 10.9
1912 28 PIT NL 643 431 102 6.3 99 .325 .300 .279 .342 .349 .513 .380 .855 .729 133 .673 18.8 1.9 .863 .300 .213 13.0
1913 29 PIT NL 627 448 66 4.0 88 .283 .266 .265 .307 .329 .386 .360 .694 .689 101 .526 -3.0 -0.3 .592 .174 .121 9.5
1914 30 STL NL 626 440 68 4.1 83 .279 .259 .256 .302 .324 .393 .343 .695 .667 108 .575 2.2 0.2 .647 .214 .134 11.0
1915 31 STL NL 388 284 37 3.5 81 .308 .276 .256 .321 .319 .374 .342 .694 .661 110 .530 3.0 0.4 .547 .132 .098 4.4
1916 32 STL NL 386 279 30 2.9 77 .268 .239 .252 .289 .310 .299 .336 .588 .646 82 .441 -7.6 -0.9 .500 .127 .059 3.4
9 Yrs 5038 3542 556 4.2 86 .295 .269 .262 .311 .330 .391 .351 .702 .681 106 .573 4.5 -0.0 .634 .189 .122 73.7
162 Game Avg. 638 448 70 4.2 86 .295 .269 .262 .311 .330 .391 .351 .702 .681 106 .573 1 -0.0 .634 .189 .122 9
PIT (6 yrs) 3638 2539 421 4.5 89 .299 .274 .265 .314 .335 .402 .354 .716 .689 107 .589 6.8 0.3 .657 .198 .128 54.6
STL (3 yrs) 1400 1003 135 3.6 80 .284 .258 .255 .304 .319 .362 .341 .665 .660 101 .530 -2.4 -0.3 .578 .168 .104 19.0

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1909 25 PIT NL WS DET W 7 28 26 2 4 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 2 .154 .154 .192 .346 5 0 0 2 0 0
1 WS 7 28 26 2 4 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 2 .154 .154 .192 .346 5 0 0 2 0 0

Ratio Batting*

Year Age Tm Lg PA HR% SO% BB% XBH% X/H% SO/BB AB/SO AB/HR AB/RBI GB/FB GO/AO IP% LD% HR/FB IF/FB
1908 24 PIT NL 572 0.5% 11.5% 3.9% 3.2% 15% 3.00 8.0 176.3 12.3 80%
1909 25 PIT NL 614 0.7% 10.8% 3.1% 6.2% 25% 3.47 8.6 142.3 9.6 81%
1910 26 PIT NL 579 0.7% 11.7% 3.6% 5.4% 21% 3.24 7.9 134.0 10.7 80%
1911 27 PIT NL 603 2.0% 9.1% 6.8% 9.6% 36% 1.34 9.9 45.3 5.1 79%
1912 28 PIT NL 643 1.7% 10.4% 5.4% 10.3% 38% 1.91 8.7 53.0 6.1 79%
1913 29 PIT NL 627 1.6% 9.9% 5.1% 5.7% 23% 1.94 9.4 58.0 7.9 81%
1914 30 STL NL 626 1.4% 10.5% 5.1% 7.7% 32% 2.06 8.8 64.4 7.9 81%
1915 31 STL NL 388 0.8% 11.1% 4.9% 5.7% 23% 2.26 8.1 116.0 8.9 78%
1916 32 STL NL 386 0.8% 11.9% 5.2% 3.4% 15% 2.30 7.7 118.3 11.1 79%
9 Yrs 5038 1.2% 10.7% 4.8% 6.6% 27% 2.24 8.6 78.4 8.1 80%
MLB Averages 0.4% 10.3% 7.8% 5.0% 22% 1.33 8.5 201.6 10.1 78%

Cumulative Batting

Year Age G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1908 24 144 572 529 47 120 8 7 3 43 12 22 66 .227 .260 .285 .546 74 151 2 19
1909 25 298 1186 1098 111 275 30 19 7 102 29 41 132 .250 .282 .332 .614 91 364 8 39
1910 26 444 1765 1634 170 423 44 32 11 152 37 62 200 .259 .292 .345 .637 92 564 15 54
1911 27 592 2368 2178 242 586 78 44 23 259 47 103 255 .269 .308 .377 .685 101 821 19 68
1912 28 744 3011 2761 322 761 97 80 34 354 63 138 322 .276 .315 .406 .721 109 1120 21 91
1913 29 899 3638 3341 393 915 109 94 44 427 72 10 170 384 .274 .314 .402 .716 107 1344 24 103
1914 30 1053 4264 3921 457 1065 136 106 53 500 86 10 202 450 .272 .312 .401 .713 107 1572 28 113
1915 31 1160 4652 4269 490 1161 149 112 56 539 94 25 221 493 .272 .313 .399 .711 107 1702 32 130
1916 32 1280 5038 4624 520 1246 157 114 59 571 98 25 241 539 .269 .311 .391 .702 106 1808 37 139

Neutralized Batting

Change to: Default / 750 Runs / 1968 Dodgers / 2000 Rockies or

All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works
Year Age G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS RC Gact
1908 24 150 621 572 65 147 10 9 4 60 15 27 69 .257 .293 .327 .620 54 144
1909 25 161 660 610 77 177 25 14 5 71 19 22 69 .290 .322 .402 .724 76 154
1910 26 153 608 563 63 157 15 14 4 53 8 22 71 .279 .314 .377 .691 65 146
1911 27 154 622 561 72 165 34 12 12 107 10 42 57 .294 .348 .462 .809 89 148
1912 28 161 675 613 82 181 20 37 11 97 17 36 71 .295 .336 .502 .839 104 152
1913 29 162 669 617 83 172 13 16 11 85 10 36 65 .279 .322 .405 .727 79 155
1914 30 160 671 619 78 172 31 14 10 89 16 37 69 .278 .324 .422 .745 83 154
1915 31 111 420 375 42 113 15 7 4 50 9 22 45 .301 .348 .411 .759 52 107
1916 32 125 423 384 41 104 10 2 4 44 5 24 48 .271 .324 .339 .662 40 120
9 Yrs 1337 5369 4914 603 1388 173 125 65 656 109 268 564 .282 .325 .408 .733 642 1280
162 Game Avg. 162 651 595 73 168 21 15 8 79 13 32 68 .282 .325 .408 .733 78 1280

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1912 NL (8, 20%)
0.20 Career Shares (746th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1912 NL  4.1 (7th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1912 NL  3.5 (10th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1909 NL  .374 (10th)
1911 NL  .472 (6th)
1912 NL  .513 (2nd)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1911 NL  .826 (7th)
1912 NL  .855 (8th)

Games Played s c a p y
1909 NL  154 (1st)
1912 NL  152 (2nd)
1913 NL  155 (1st)
1914 NL  154 (4th)

At Bats s c a p y
1909 NL  569 (9th)
1912 NL  583 (4th)
1913 NL  580 (5th)
1914 NL  580 (4th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1912 NL  643 (7th)
1913 NL  627 (9th)
1914 NL  626 (10th)

Hits s c a p y
1909 NL  155 (10th)
1911 NL  163 (10th)
1912 NL  175 (7th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1909 NL  213 (8th)
1911 NL  257 (5th)
1912 NL  299 (2nd)
1914 NL  228 (7th)

Doubles s c a p y
1911 NL  34 (3rd)
1914 NL  27 (5th)

Triples s c a p y
1909 NL  12 (5th)
1910 NL  13 (10th)
1912 NL  36 (1st)
1913 NL  14 (4th)
1914 NL  12 (2nd)
Career  114 (111th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1909 NL  4 (6th)
1911 NL  12 (5th)
1912 NL  11 (3rd)
1913 NL  10 (5th)
1914 NL  9 (5th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1911 NL  107 (1st)
1912 NL  95 (4th)
1913 NL  73 (8th)
1914 NL  73 (10th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1908 NL  66 (6th)
1909 NL  66 (6th)
1910 NL  68 (5th)
1912 NL  67 (9th)
1913 NL  62 (10th)
1914 NL  66 (7th)

Singles s c a p y
1913 NL  118 (9th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1912 NL  133 (7th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1911 NL  90 (7th)
1912 NL  102 (5th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1912 NL  19 (10th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1912 NL  1.9 (10th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1909 NL  38 (8th)
1911 NL  58 (3rd)
1912 NL  66 (2nd)
1914 NL  48 (5th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1912 NL  .673 (10th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1910 NL  7 (10th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1912 NL  23 (8th)
Career  139 (207th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1911 NL  10.9 (10th)
1912 NL  13.0 (5th)
1914 NL  11.0 (6th)

AB per HR s c a p y
1911 NL  45.3 (6th)
1912 NL  53.0 (6th)
1913 NL  58.0 (8th)
1914 NL  64.4 (9th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1909 NL  434 (8th)
1912 NL  431 (3rd)
1913 NL  448 (8th)
1914 NL  440 (7th)

             

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 7 (320), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 71 (350), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 16 (939), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 7 (1947), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Right Field (150th), 13.5 career WAR/15.2 7yr-peak WAR/14.4 JAWS
Average HOF RF (out of 23) = 70.9 career WAR/42.0 7yr-peak WAR/56.4 JAWS

Similarity Scores

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  1. Red Murray (945)
  2. Casey Stengel (937) *
  3. Hi Myers (932)
  4. Johnny Wyrostek (927)
  5. Danny Cater (923)
  6. Mike Mitchell (922)
  7. Tommy Griffith (922)
  8. Bobby Tolan (922)
  9. Don Mueller (921)
  10. Alex Johnson (920)
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  1. Don Hahn (972)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Steve Evans (979)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Hosken Powell (972)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Larry Herndon (974)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Harry Lumley (971)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Casey Stengel (965) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Larry Herndon (943)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Red Murray (941)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Red Murray (944)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

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