MLB / Players

Art Butler

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 160 lb

BornDecember 19, 1887 · Fall River, MA, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1911

Final gameOctober 1, 1916

Seasons6 (1911–1916)

Boston Rustlers 1911; Pittsburgh Pirates 1912–1913; St. Louis Cardinals 1914–1916

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified batters

130

34.5

533

41.2

469

37.6

72.7

119

38.2

24.2

32.1

15.8

RBI

26.7

60.6

56.4

74.5

28.5

.254

29.7

OBP

.323

31.5

SLG

.307

14.5

OPS

.630

18.8

wRC+

92.0

26.7

OPS+

90.4

wOBA

.308

18.8

sWAR

2.0

52.1

of 166 qualified 1915 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.2

77.4

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
1911	27	76	68	11	12	2	0	0	2	6	6	0	0	.176	.263	.206	.469	25.6	25.8	.242	-0.4
1912	43	173	154	19	42	4	2	1	17	15	13	2	0	.273	.337	.344	.681	90.5	89.8	.329	0.4
1913	82	255	214	40	60	9	3	0	20	32	14	9	0	.280	.379	.350	.729	119.6	114.4	.356	1.6
1914	86	329	274	29	55	12	3	1	24	39	23	14	0	.201	.311	.277	.589	81.2	76.1	.298	0.8
1915	130	533	469	73	119	12	5	1	31	47	34	26	14	.254	.323	.307	.630	92.0	90.4	.308	2.0
1916	86	119	110	9	23	5	0	0	7	7	12	3	0	.209	.256	.255	.511	50.5	55.7	.248	-0.3

Career totals

454

1,485

1,289

181

311

RBI

101

146

102

.2413

OBP

.3232

SLG

.3026

OPS

.6258

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
1915-04-28	PIT @ STL Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	1	1	0	7
1914-06-03	STL @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	0	2	0	5
1915-09-04	STL @ CIN Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	4
1913-04-12	PIT @ CIN Gameday	3	1	3	1	0	0	1	2	4
1911-05-13	PIT @ ATL Gameday	3	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1911-04-12	LAD @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-13	LAD @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-14	LAD @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-15	PHI @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-17	PHI @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.