Beals Becker
Boston Doves 1908; Pittsburgh Pirates 1908; Boston Doves 1909; New York Giants 1910–1912; Cincinnati Reds 1913; Philadelphia Phillies 1913–1915
Percentile snapshot
1914 season — qualified batters
of 164 qualified 1914 batters (min 477 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1908 | 63 | 248 | 236 | 17 | 57 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 29 | 9 | 0 | .242 | .272 | .271 | .544 | 68.0 | 72.6 | .266 | -0.4 |
| 1909 | 152 | 645 | 562 | 60 | 138 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 24 | 47 | 87 | 21 | 0 | .246 | .305 | .326 | .631 | 87.7 | 89.8 | .311 | 0.3 |
| 1910 | 80 | 143 | 126 | 18 | 36 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 24 | 14 | 25 | 11 | 0 | .286 | .357 | .437 | .794 | 129.8 | 132.7 | .381 | 0.9 |
| 1911 | 88 | 200 | 172 | 28 | 45 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 26 | 22 | 19 | 0 | .262 | .359 | .355 | .713 | 104.3 | 101.7 | .349 | 0.5 |
| 1912 | 125 | 469 | 402 | 66 | 106 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 58 | 54 | 35 | 30 | 0 | .264 | .354 | .393 | .747 | 104.9 | 104.3 | .358 | 1.9 |
| 1913 | 118 | 449 | 414 | 64 | 131 | 24 | 13 | 9 | 58 | 28 | 42 | 11 | 0 | .316 | .360 | .502 | .862 | 138.5 | 141.3 | .397 | 3.3 |
| 1914 | 138 | 561 | 514 | 76 | 167 | 25 | 5 | 9 | 66 | 37 | 59 | 16 | 0 | .325 | .370 | .446 | .816 | 135.4 | 136.1 | .386 | 3.8 |
| 1915 | 112 | 376 | 338 | 38 | 83 | 16 | 4 | 11 | 35 | 26 | 48 | 12 | 15 | .246 | .301 | .414 | .716 | 112.0 | 115.2 | .336 | 1.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913-07-12 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| 1913-09-08 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 6 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 1913-06-09 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1913-05-15 | CIN @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1913-08-08 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1908-04-15 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1908-04-16 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1908-04-17 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1908-04-19 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1908-04-20 | PIT @ CIN 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.