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Sam Barkley played 6 major-league seasons (1884-1889) as a 2B (504), 1B (70), OF (8), C (2). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 6 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1884 | 26 | TL1 | 104 | 435 | 71 | 133 | 1 | — | 0 | 22 | — | .306 | .786 | 159 |
| 1885 | 27 | SL4 | 106 | 418 | 67 | 112 | 3 | 53 | 0 | 25 | — | .268 | .693 | 123 |
| 1886 | 28 | PT1 | 122 | 478 | 77 | 127 | 1 | 69 | 22 | 58 | — | .266 | .715 | 128 |
| 1887 | 29 | PIT | 89 | 340 | 44 | 76 | 1 | 35 | 6 | 30 | 24 | .224 | .579 | 65 |
| 1888 | 30 | KC2 | 116 | 482 | 67 | 104 | 4 | 51 | 15 | 26 | 51 | .216 | .571 | 86 |
| 1889 | 31 | KC2 | 45 | 176 | 36 | 50 | 0 | 23 | 8 | 15 | 20 | .284 | .681 | 98 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1884 | 2B | 103 | 0 | 318 | 358 | 51 | 46 |
| 1884 | C | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1885 | 2B | 96 | 0 | 286 | 328 | 53 | 38 |
| 1885 | 1B | 11 | 0 | 125 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 1886 | 2B | 112 | 0 | 362 | 328 | 47 | 52 |
| 1886 | OF | 8 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1886 | 1B | 2 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1887 | 1B | 53 | 0 | 552 | 15 | 12 | 24 |
| 1887 | 2B | 36 | 0 | 112 | 114 | 25 | 14 |
| 1888 | 2B | 116 | 0 | 341 | 314 | 43 | 44 |
| 1889 | 2B | 41 | 0 | 90 | 103 | 16 | 20 |
| 1889 | 1B | 4 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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.
Sam Barkley ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #55 | second basemen | 1884 | 159 OPS+ |
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.