MLB / Players

Bill Brubaker

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornNovember 7, 1910 · Cleveland, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1932

Final gameJuly 11, 1943

Seasons10 (1932–1943)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1932–1940; Boston Braves 1943

Percentile snapshot

1936 season — qualified batters

145

620

51.7

554

58.3

47.5

160

54.2

47.5

35.8

RBI

102

81.7

58.3

0.8

47.5

39.2

.289

34.2

OBP

.352

33.3

SLG

.384

OPS

.736

29.2

wRC+

98.6

41.7

OPS+

97.6

40.8

wOBA

.344

29.2

sWAR

2.1

58.3

of 121 qualified 1936 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.4

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1932	7	27	24	3	10	3	0	0	4	3	4	1	.417	.481	.542	1.023	182.4	176.9	.459	0.4
1933	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.9	-100.0	.000	0.0
1934	3	7	6	0	2	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	.333	.429	.500	.929	150.4	146.3	.422	0.1
1935	6	13	11	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	0	.000	.154	.000	.154	-46.7	-55.3	.114	-0.2
1936	145	620	554	77	160	27	4	6	102	50	96	5	.289	.352	.384	.736	98.6	97.6	.344	2.1
1937	120	472	413	57	105	20	4	6	48	47	51	2	.254	.335	.366	.700	92.5	91.1	.329	1.3
1938	45	123	112	18	33	5	0	3	19	9	14	2	.295	.347	.420	.767	109.5	109.9	.353	0.5
1939	100	380	345	41	80	23	1	7	43	29	51	3	.232	.297	.365	.662	74.9	77.9	.307	0.2
1940	38	90	78	8	15	3	1	0	7	8	16	0	.192	.267	.256	.524	43.7	45.2	.253	-0.3
1943	13	21	19	3	8	3	0	0	1	2	2	0	.421	.476	.579	1.055	213.6	205.9	.491	0.3

Career totals

479

1,755

1,564

208

413

RBI

225

151

239

.2641

OBP

.3328

SLG

.3734

OPS

.7062

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	TB
1936-09-03	PHI @ PIT Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	1	2	7
1936-05-08	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	2	4	2	0	0	3	6
1939-06-06	PIT @ LAD Gameday	4	1	4	2	0	0	0	6
1936-05-12	PIT @ ATL Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	1	3	6
1938-08-16	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	2	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1932-04-12	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-13	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-14	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-15	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-16	PIT @ CIN 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.