Al Papai
St. Louis Cardinals 1948; St. Louis Browns 1949; Boston Red Sox 1950; St. Louis Cardinals 1950; Chicago White Sox 1955
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -132.1 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1949 | 42 | 45 | 38 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .079 | .205 | .079 | .283 | -30.2 | -25.8 | .170 | 0.3 |
| 1950 | 29 | 24 | 20 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .150 | .261 | .150 | .411 | 3.4 | 3.9 | .221 | -0.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -129.2 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 16.0 | 5.06 | 1.313 | 4.50 | 5.32 | 130.3 | 80.6 | 0.0 |
| 1949 | 42 | 15 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 175 | 80 | 81 | 31 | 8 | 142.3 | 5.06 | 1.799 | 1.96 | 4.51 | 101.1 | 88.3 | 0.3 |
| 1950 | 29 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 82 | 49 | 42 | 26 | 5 | 69.7 | 6.33 | 1.780 | 3.36 | 4.64 | 97.2 | 75.2 | -0.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 11.7 | 3.86 | 1.543 | 3.86 | 4.74 | 119.8 | 102.7 | 0.1 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-06-25 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1949-08-30 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1949-09-19 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1950-05-25 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1950-06-18 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950-04-24 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 8.0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| 1950-05-07 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1949-09-09 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 7.0 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 1949-07-07 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 6.1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| 1955-09-05 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 5.0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.