Arnold Waites
Philadelphia Stars 1935; Homestead Grays 1936–1937; Washington Elite Giants 1937
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .250 | 10.0 | -31.1 | .188 | 0.0 |
| 1936 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 31.5 | 28.0 | .232 | -0.4 |
| 1937 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | 11.0 | 3.4 | .183 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 22 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 26.0 | 7.62 | 1.654 | 4.15 | 5.86 | 114.8 | 67.1 | -0.4 |
| 1937 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 13 | 14 | 21 | 1 | 22.7 | 5.16 | 1.765 | 8.34 | 4.74 | 94.9 | 96.7 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936-05-09 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1936-07-04 | HOM @ TIC Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1937-09-01 | NBY @ BEG Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1935-05-04 | PHS @ HOM Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935-05-05 | PHS @ HOM Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-09-01 | NBY @ BEG Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 1 |
| 1937-07-11 | HOM @ BEG Gameday | 6.2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 1936-05-16 | HOM @ NYC Gameday | 6.1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| 1936-05-09 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 4.0 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 1936-08-08 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 3.1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
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.