Babe Phelps
Washington Senators 1931; Chicago Cubs 1933–1934; Brooklyn Dodgers 1935–1941; Pittsburgh Pirates 1942
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 74.9 | 77.4 | .309 | 0.0 |
| 1933 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .286 | .286 | .571 | 58.2 | 65.2 | .265 | 0.0 |
| 1934 | 44 | 71 | 70 | 7 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .296 | .500 | .796 | 107.7 | 113.1 | .348 | 0.5 |
| 1935 | 47 | 130 | 121 | 17 | 44 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .364 | .408 | .579 | .986 | 162.7 | 163.6 | .437 | 1.7 |
| 1936 | 115 | 349 | 319 | 36 | 117 | 23 | 2 | 5 | 57 | 27 | 18 | 1 | 0 | .367 | .421 | .498 | .920 | 147.5 | 145.1 | .421 | 4.0 |
| 1937 | 121 | 442 | 409 | 42 | 128 | 37 | 3 | 7 | 58 | 25 | 28 | 2 | 0 | .313 | .357 | .469 | .826 | 119.5 | 120.5 | .375 | 3.5 |
| 1938 | 66 | 232 | 208 | 33 | 64 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 46 | 23 | 15 | 2 | 0 | .308 | .379 | .457 | .836 | 128.7 | 126.6 | .384 | 2.1 |
| 1939 | 98 | 356 | 323 | 33 | 92 | 21 | 2 | 6 | 42 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .285 | .336 | .418 | .754 | 97.8 | 99.5 | .346 | 1.8 |
| 1940 | 118 | 404 | 370 | 47 | 109 | 24 | 5 | 13 | 61 | 30 | 27 | 2 | 0 | .295 | .349 | .492 | .841 | 124.9 | 125.7 | .379 | 3.4 |
| 1941 | 16 | 31 | 30 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .233 | .258 | .533 | .791 | 108.0 | 117.4 | .350 | 0.2 |
| 1942 | 95 | 281 | 257 | 21 | 73 | 11 | 1 | 9 | 41 | 20 | 24 | 2 | 0 | .284 | .345 | .440 | .785 | 126.1 | 126.5 | .368 | 2.5 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-09-03 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 1936-08-01 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 1937-09-06 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1940-07-04 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1942-05-03 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931-04-14 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931-04-15 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931-04-16 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931-04-18 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931-04-19 | BOS @ MIN 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.