Bobby Messenger
Chicago White Sox 1909–1911; St. Louis Browns 1914
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909 | 31 | 130 | 112 | 18 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 24 | 7 | 0 | .170 | .268 | .196 | .464 | 58.1 | 51.1 | .245 | -0.4 |
| 1910 | 9 | 33 | 26 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | .231 | .375 | .308 | .683 | 129.7 | 119.5 | .352 | 0.2 |
| 1911 | 13 | 22 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .118 | .250 | .235 | .485 | 46.6 | 38.4 | .252 | -0.1 |
| 1914 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.5 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909-09-06 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1909-10-02 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1909-09-11 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1910-10-01 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1911-05-30 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909-04-14 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1909-04-15 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1909-04-16 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1909-04-17 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1909-04-18 | CWS @ BAL 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.