MLB / Players

Bobby Bragan

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornOctober 30, 1917 · Birmingham, AL, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1940

Final gameJune 27, 1948

Seasons7 (1940–1948)

Philadelphia Phillies 1940–1942; Brooklyn Dodgers 1943–1944; Brooklyn Dodgers 1947–1948

Percentile snapshot

1941 season — qualified batters

154

94.2

597

66.2

557

83.5

28.8

140

39.6

26.6

42.4

RBI

68.3

33.8

50.4

71.2

36.7

.251

23.7

OBP

.285

7.2

SLG

.318

13.7

OPS

.603

10.8

wRC+

65.1

8.6

OPS+

70.2

14.4

wOBA

.284

10.1

sWAR

0.2

17.3

of 140 qualified 1941 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

1.0

64.1

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
1940	132	504	474	36	105	14	1	7	44	28	34	2	.222	.265	.300	.565	51.2	56.0	.263	-0.7
1941	154	597	557	37	140	19	3	4	69	26	29	7	.251	.285	.318	.603	65.1	70.2	.284	0.2
1942	109	363	335	17	73	12	2	2	15	20	21	0	.218	.264	.284	.548	55.7	61.9	.263	0.0
1943	74	242	220	17	58	7	2	2	24	15	16	0	.264	.311	.341	.652	83.4	86.9	.312	0.9
1944	94	288	266	26	71	8	4	0	17	13	14	2	.267	.304	.327	.631	73.6	77.2	.297	0.6
1947	25	43	36	3	7	2	0	0	3	7	3	1	.194	.326	.250	.576	59.1	53.1	.290	0.1
1948	9	14	12	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.167	.231	.167	.397	2.3	8.1	.200	-0.1

Career totals

597

2,051

1,900

136

456

RBI

172

110

117

.2400

OBP

.2823

SLG

.3089

OPS

.5912

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
1940-09-02	SF @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	2	0	1	1	8
1940-06-18	CIN @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	8
1944-05-18	LAD @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	0	1	7
1942-05-22	ATL @ PHI Gameday	5	2	2	0	1	1	2	7
1941-05-13	PHI @ PIT Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	0	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1940-04-16	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-23	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-24	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-25	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-26	LAD @ PHI 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.