Ben Cantwell
New York Giants 1927; Boston Braves 1928; New York Giants 1928; Boston Braves 1929–1935; Boston Bees 1936; Brooklyn Dodgers 1937; New York Giants 1937
Percentile snapshot
1935 season — qualified pitchers
of 96 qualified 1935 pitchers (min 153 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .375 | .625 | 57.8 | 66.2 | .281 | 0.2 |
| 1928 | 29 | 33 | 33 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .212 | .212 | .212 | .424 | 1.1 | 12.3 | .196 | -0.3 |
| 1929 | 27 | 57 | 50 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .180 | .241 | .240 | .481 | 19.7 | 21.0 | .229 | 1.8 |
| 1930 | 34 | 65 | 63 | 4 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .302 | .302 | .349 | .651 | 56.4 | 59.1 | .290 | 1.8 |
| 1931 | 40 | 59 | 57 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .228 | .228 | .246 | .474 | 19.8 | 29.8 | .217 | 1.8 |
| 1932 | 37 | 51 | 50 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .280 | .294 | .280 | .574 | 55.6 | 59.0 | .263 | 2.9 |
| 1933 | 49 | 92 | 85 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .141 | .180 | .188 | .368 | 2.2 | 9.8 | .176 | 3.8 |
| 1934 | 29 | 48 | 43 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .279 | .279 | .279 | .558 | 50.3 | 55.1 | .256 | 0.7 |
| 1935 | 41 | 74 | 67 | 4 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .284 | .304 | .299 | .603 | 66.6 | 68.0 | .279 | 0.5 |
| 1936 | 35 | 44 | 41 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .195 | .195 | .195 | .390 | -0.4 | 8.3 | .181 | 2.3 |
| 1937 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .286 | .167 | .452 | 31.5 | -10.1 | .239 | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 19.7 | 4.12 | 1.424 | 2.75 | 3.50 | 90.1 | 94.3 | 0.2 |
| 1928 | 29 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 132 | 60 | 40 | 18 | 8 | 108.3 | 4.98 | 1.588 | 1.50 | 4.59 | 118.0 | 78.1 | -0.3 |
| 1929 | 27 | 20 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 171 | 78 | 52 | 25 | 11 | 157.0 | 4.47 | 1.420 | 1.43 | 4.93 | 107.1 | 103.1 | 1.8 |
| 1930 | 31 | 21 | 9 | 15 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 213 | 94 | 45 | 43 | 15 | 173.3 | 4.88 | 1.488 | 2.23 | 4.98 | 103.1 | 98.9 | 1.8 |
| 1931 | 33 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 160 | 63 | 34 | 32 | 4 | 156.3 | 3.63 | 1.241 | 1.84 | 3.55 | 95.4 | 102.6 | 1.8 |
| 1932 | 37 | 9 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 133 | 48 | 33 | 33 | 6 | 146.0 | 2.96 | 1.137 | 2.03 | 3.77 | 101.8 | 125.2 | 2.9 |
| 1933 | 40 | 29 | 20 | 10 | 2 | 18 | 2 | 242 | 74 | 54 | 57 | 12 | 254.7 | 2.62 | 1.162 | 2.01 | 3.40 | 111.2 | 117.1 | 3.8 |
| 1934 | 27 | 19 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 163 | 69 | 34 | 45 | 8 | 143.3 | 4.33 | 1.374 | 2.83 | 3.94 | 103.5 | 87.8 | 0.7 |
| 1935 | 39 | 24 | 4 | 25 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 235 | 108 | 44 | 34 | 15 | 210.7 | 4.61 | 1.324 | 1.45 | 4.28 | 113.5 | 81.7 | 0.5 |
| 1936 | 34 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 127 | 45 | 35 | 42 | 8 | 133.3 | 3.04 | 1.215 | 2.84 | 4.07 | 107.0 | 125.2 | 2.3 |
| 1937 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 18 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 31.3 | 5.17 | 1.500 | 3.73 | 3.81 | 96.1 | 76.9 | -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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-09-11 | CIN @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1931-07-18 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1934-05-30 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1929-08-12 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1933-05-20 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934-04-20 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 7.0 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 1934-05-20 | CIN @ ATL Gameday | 10.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 1932-08-07 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 8.2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 1930-09-14 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 8.0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1930-06-06 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
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.