MLB / Players

Barney Martin

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb
BornMarch 3, 1923 · Columbia, SC, USA
MLB debutApril 22, 1953
Final gameApril 22, 1953
Seasons1 (1953–1953)

Cincinnati Reds 1953

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
-0.1
32.6

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19531000000000000-0.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19531000000321102.09.002.0004.503.1271.648.4-0.1

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

G
1
PA
0
AB
0
R
0
H
0
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
0
SB
0

Pitching

G (P)
1
GS
0
W
0
L
0
SV
0
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
2
SO (P)
1
BB allowed
1
ERA
9.000
WHIP
2.0000
K/9
4.50

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1953-04-22CIN @ STL Gameday000000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1953-04-22CIN @ STL Gameday2.0322110

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.