Babe Birrer
Detroit Tigers 1955; Baltimore Orioles 1956; Los Angeles Dodgers 1958
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 36 | 21 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .158 | .238 | .526 | .764 | 95.2 | 103.8 | .335 | 0.8 |
| 1956 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -121.1 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1958 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .571 | .625 | .714 | 1.339 | 270.0 | 245.2 | .594 | 0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 36 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 77 | 37 | 29 | 28 | 9 | 80.3 | 4.15 | 1.320 | 3.14 | 4.27 | 110.2 | 93.5 | 0.8 |
| 1956 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5.3 | 6.75 | 1.875 | 1.69 | 2.69 | 69.4 | 57.5 | -0.1 |
| 1958 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 17 | 7 | 16 | 4 | 34.0 | 4.50 | 1.471 | 4.24 | 3.80 | 91.1 | 92.8 | 0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-07-19 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 8 |
| 1955-06-11 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1958-08-31 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1958-08-12 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1958-08-26 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-06-11 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 8.0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1955-07-03 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 5.0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1955-08-17 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 5.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1958-08-31 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 5.0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 1955-08-07 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 2.2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 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.