Bobby Sturgeon
Chicago Cubs 1940–1942; Chicago Cubs 1946–1947; Boston Braves 1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 7 | 21 | 21 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .190 | .190 | .238 | .429 | 5.9 | 18.7 | .194 | -0.1 |
| 1941 | 129 | 453 | 433 | 45 | 106 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 25 | 9 | 30 | 5 | 0 | .245 | .260 | .293 | .553 | 50.1 | 57.8 | .259 | -0.6 |
| 1942 | 63 | 169 | 162 | 8 | 40 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 0 | .247 | .269 | .302 | .572 | 61.6 | 69.5 | .270 | 0.0 |
| 1946 | 100 | 311 | 294 | 26 | 87 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 10 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .296 | .319 | .361 | .680 | 90.3 | 95.6 | .320 | 1.1 |
| 1947 | 87 | 243 | 232 | 16 | 59 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .254 | .276 | .341 | .617 | 59.0 | 65.8 | .281 | -0.2 |
| 1948 | 34 | 82 | 78 | 10 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .218 | .256 | .282 | .538 | 41.1 | 47.4 | .251 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-09-22 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1942-08-30 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1941-06-09 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 1941-07-22 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1940-04-19 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-04-16 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-18 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-19 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-20 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-21 | STL @ CHC 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.