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John Coleman played 8 major-league seasons (1883-1890) as a OF (510), P (107), 1B (37), 2B (2). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 9 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1883 | 20 | PHI | 90 | 354 | 33 | 83 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 15 | 39 | .234 | .579 | 79 |
| 1884 | 21 | PH4 | 28 | 107 | 16 | 22 | 2 | — | 0 | 5 | — | .206 | .578 | 90 |
| 1884 | 21 | PHI | 43 | 171 | 16 | 42 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 8 | 20 | .246 | .589 | 89 |
| 1885 | 22 | PH4 | 96 | 398 | 71 | 119 | 3 | 70 | 0 | 25 | — | .299 | .760 | 145 |
| 1886 | 23 | PH4|PT1 | 132 | 535 | 70 | 136 | 0 | 74 | 29 | 35 | — | .254 | .658 | 109 |
| 1887 | 24 | PIT | 115 | 475 | 75 | 139 | 2 | 54 | 25 | 31 | 40 | .293 | .733 | 107 |
| 1888 | 25 | PIT | 116 | 438 | 49 | 101 | 0 | 26 | 15 | 29 | 52 | .231 | .558 | 84 |
| 1889 | 26 | PH4 | 6 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | .053 | .153 | -55 |
| 1890 | 27 | PIT | 3 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .182 | .539 | 62 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1883 | 20 | PHI | 65 | 61 | 12 | 48 | 0 | 538.1 | 159 | 48 | 4.87 | 64 |
| 1884 | 21 | PH4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 3.43 | 95 |
| 1884 | 21 | PHI | 21 | 19 | 5 | 15 | 0 | 154.1 | 37 | 22 | 4.90 | 61 |
| 1885 | 22 | PH4 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 60.1 | 12 | 5 | 3.43 | 95 |
| 1886 | 23 | PH4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 20.2 | 2 | 5 | 2.61 | 132 |
| 1889 | 26 | PH4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 34 | 6 | 14 | 2.91 | 132 |
| 1890 | 27 | PIT | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 9.64 | 37 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1883 | P | 65 | 0 | 22 | 118 | 18 | 2 |
| 1883 | OF | 31 | 0 | 69 | 14 | 13 | 4 |
| 1883 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1884 | OF | 51 | 0 | 68 | 12 | 19 | 3 |
| 1884 | P | 24 | 0 | 14 | 43 | 3 | 0 |
| 1884 | 1B | 4 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1885 | OF | 93 | 0 | 128 | 23 | 28 | 5 |
| 1885 | P | 8 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 1886 | OF | 126 | 0 | 193 | 24 | 36 | 6 |
| 1886 | 1B | 6 | 0 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1886 | P | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 1886 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1887 | OF | 115 | 0 | 214 | 17 | 26 | 3 |
| 1887 | 1B | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1888 | OF | 91 | 0 | 160 | 20 | 14 | 2 |
| 1888 | 1B | 25 | 0 | 235 | 4 | 6 | 12 |
| 1889 | P | 5 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| 1889 | OF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1890 | OF | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1890 | P | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
John Coleman ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #176 | relief pitchers | 1885 | 95 ERA+ |
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.