Roger Connor

1880–1897 · 18 seasons · Bats both sides, throws left · Born 1857

  • Hall of Fame 1976

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17 of 26 columns. Folded away: CS, TB, HBP, wOBA, wRAA, WAR: Bat, WAR: Field, WAR: Run, WAR: Pos.

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SeasonTeamLgGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPSWAR
1880Troy TrojansNL833533405311318834713210.332.357.459.8163.7
1881Troy TrojansNL853823675510717623115200.292.319.387.7061.5
1882Troy TrojansNL8136234965115221844213200.330.354.530.8844.2
1883New York GothamsNL9843440980146281515025160.357.394.506.9004.2
1884New York GothamsNL1165154779815128448238320.317.367.417.7844.9
1885New York GiantsNL11050645510216923151655180.371.435.495.9296.0
1886New York GiantsNL1185264851051722920771411517.355.405.540.9456.1
1887New York GiantsNL127554471113134262217104755043.285.392.541.9334.6
1888New York GiantsNL1345584819814015171471734427.291.389.480.8696.0
1889New York GiantsNL131591496117157321713130934621.317.426.528.9554.8
1890New York GiantsOTH123573484133169241514103883222.349.450.548.9986.1
1891New York GiantsNL1295664791121392913794833927.290.399.449.8484.1
1892Philadelphia PhilliesNL155686564123166371112731163922.294.420.463.8836.1
1893New York GiantsNL13560551111115625811105912624.305.413.450.8633.1
1894St. Louis BrownsNL121534462931463525893591719.316.402.552.9532.5
1895St. Louis BrownsNL1044684017813129987863109.327.421.504.9242.7
1896St. Louis BrownsNL126537483711372191172521410.284.356.433.7881.8
1897St. Louis BrownsNL2297831319311121363.229.333.325.659-0.1
SubtotalAmerican & National Leagues · 17 seasons187582747313148722984172181241220914423222.314.393.482.87566.4
SubtotalOther leagues · 1 season123573484133169241514103883222.349.450.548.9986.1
Career18 seasons1998884777971620246744123313813231002455244.316.397.486.88372.5

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

Any shaded cell or chip will explain itself. Point at one, or tab to it and it opens on focus, and it names the league, the season and the statistic in full. On a touchscreen, tap it once to open and once more to close.

Not every award existed yet. This database has Most Valuable Player from 1911, Rookie of the Year from 1947, Cy Young Award from 1956, Gold Glove from 1957, Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: NL (National League), OTH (Other leagues).

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). The season lines on this page are our own derivative of that database — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.