Ben Wade
Chicago Cubs 1948; Brooklyn Dodgers 1952–1954; St. Louis Cardinals 1954; Pittsburgh Pirates 1955
Percentile snapshot
1952 season — qualified pitchers
of 61 qualified 1952 pitchers (min 155 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.1 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1952 | 37 | 63 | 60 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 0 | .117 | .131 | .317 | .448 | 2.1 | 20.7 | .194 | 2.2 |
| 1953 | 32 | 27 | 24 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .292 | .458 | 1.0 | 15.9 | .196 | 1.5 |
| 1954 | 36 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -138.4 | -100.0 | .000 | -1.8 |
| 1955 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .200 | -25.7 | -40.5 | .148 | 0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5.0 | 7.20 | 1.600 | 1.80 | 4.57 | 118.8 | 53.4 | -0.2 |
| 1952 | 37 | 24 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 166 | 72 | 94 | 118 | 19 | 180.0 | 3.60 | 1.444 | 5.90 | 4.08 | 109.5 | 103.5 | 2.2 |
| 1953 | 32 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 38 | 33 | 65 | 15 | 90.3 | 3.79 | 1.240 | 6.48 | 4.56 | 105.3 | 114.4 | 1.5 |
| 1954 | 36 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 55 | 36 | 44 | 12 | 68.0 | 7.28 | 1.838 | 5.82 | 5.09 | 122.8 | 57.0 | -1.8 |
| 1955 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 10 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 28.0 | 3.21 | 1.429 | 2.25 | 4.81 | 119.1 | 125.6 | 0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-07-06 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1952-05-13 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1953-05-30 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1952-04-16 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1952-06-08 | LAD @ CIN Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-05-17 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 4 |
| 1953-04-30 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 8.2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
| 1952-07-20 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 6.2 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 1952-07-24 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 11.0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 0 |
| 1952-05-27 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 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.