Bernie James
Boston Braves 1929–1930; New York Giants 1933
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 46 | 113 | 101 | 12 | 31 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 0 | .307 | .369 | .376 | .746 | 89.7 | 87.5 | .347 | 0.3 |
| 1930 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .182 | .273 | .455 | 2.9 | 9.6 | .197 | -0.1 |
| 1933 | 60 | 136 | 125 | 22 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 0 | .224 | .271 | .280 | .551 | 56.5 | 59.8 | .261 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929-09-19 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1933-08-02 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1933-09-24 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1933-05-30 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1929-09-24 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929-04-18 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929-04-19 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929-04-19 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929-04-23 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929-04-24 | ATL @ LAD 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.