Beau Bell
St. Louis Browns 1935–1938; Detroit Tigers 1939; St. Louis Browns 1939; Cleveland Indians 1940–1941
Percentile snapshot
1940 season — qualified batters
of 140 qualified 1940 batters (min 480 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 76 | 237 | 220 | 20 | 55 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1 | .250 | .304 | .345 | .649 | 59.3 | 63.1 | .303 | -0.7 |
| 1936 | 155 | 683 | 616 | 100 | 212 | 40 | 12 | 11 | 123 | 60 | 55 | 4 | 1 | .344 | .403 | .502 | .905 | 115.6 | 116.5 | .411 | 2.8 |
| 1937 | 156 | 699 | 642 | 82 | 218 | 51 | 8 | 14 | 117 | 53 | 54 | 2 | 2 | .340 | .391 | .509 | .900 | 120.6 | 121.4 | .404 | 3.3 |
| 1938 | 147 | 599 | 526 | 91 | 138 | 35 | 3 | 13 | 84 | 71 | 46 | 1 | 3 | .262 | .350 | .414 | .765 | 87.7 | 88.1 | .353 | 0.4 |
| 1939 | 65 | 205 | 166 | 18 | 39 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 28 | 19 | 0 | 1 | .235 | .352 | .307 | .659 | 72.0 | 66.3 | .322 | -0.3 |
| 1940 | 120 | 482 | 444 | 55 | 124 | 22 | 2 | 4 | 58 | 34 | 41 | 2 | 2 | .279 | .332 | .365 | .697 | 84.9 | 85.4 | .320 | 0.1 |
| 1941 | 48 | 118 | 104 | 12 | 20 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 2 | .192 | .270 | .288 | .558 | 50.5 | 51.9 | .266 | -0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935-04-21 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1938-08-17 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1936-08-06 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1937-05-26 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 1937-09-14 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935-04-16 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935-04-20 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935-04-21 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935-04-22 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935-04-23 | BAL @ CLE 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.