Ben Flowers
Boston Red Sox 1951; Boston Red Sox 1953; Detroit Tigers 1955; St. Louis Cardinals 1955; Philadelphia Phillies 1956; St. Louis Cardinals 1956
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -136.4 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.2 |
| 1953 | 32 | 20 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .158 | .158 | .263 | .421 | -11.5 | 9.6 | .187 | 1.0 |
| 1955 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .182 | -70.3 | -51.6 | .083 | 0.2 |
| 1956 | 35 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .167 | .000 | .167 | -43.2 | -49.2 | .123 | -0.9 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3.0 | 0.00 | 1.000 | 6.00 | 2.24 | 50.1 | — | 0.2 |
| 1953 | 32 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 87 | 34 | 24 | 36 | 6 | 79.3 | 3.86 | 1.399 | 4.08 | 3.59 | 85.9 | 108.2 | 1.0 |
| 1955 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 15 | 14 | 21 | 2 | 33.3 | 4.05 | 1.380 | 5.67 | 3.11 | 77.3 | 100.0 | 0.2 |
| 1956 | 35 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 35 | 15 | 27 | 10 | 52.7 | 5.98 | 1.595 | 4.61 | 4.59 | 123.1 | 62.3 | -0.9 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-08-05 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1953-08-15 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1953-07-30 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1955-09-15 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1951-09-29 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-09-15 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 7.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
| 1956-07-20 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 3.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 1955-09-20 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 6.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 1953-07-04 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 3.1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 1953-08-10 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 7.1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 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.