Johnny Bates played 9 seasons (1906–1914) for ATL, PHI, CIN and 2 other clubs. Career regular-season line: 1,087 hits, 25 home runs and a .278 average. Mountain Arc career, peaking in 1910.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
Cross-sport prominence: 93.9th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
Historical franchise
No continuous modern successor — attributed to the franchise itself, never folded into a modern club.
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Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
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Fan Rating
Rate Johnny Bates — All-Time
9 seasons · peak 13.3 in 1910
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
24.0 career wins over 9 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1910 · +5.1 wins
Latest season · 1914 · +1.8 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Johnny Bates led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career arc
Mountain Arc
The classic build → peak → decline arc — rose to a dominant peak, then faded. Peak 1910, 9 rated seasons.
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Wore 4 distinct franchise crests across 9 seasons (1906–1914) — a true nomad. The crest trail: