Boots Poffenberger
Detroit Tigers 1937–1938; Brooklyn Dodgers 1939
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 29 | 53 | 51 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .216 | .216 | .275 | .490 | 11.2 | 22.2 | .220 | 1.3 |
| 1938 | 25 | 47 | 44 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .217 | .182 | .399 | -8.6 | -1.5 | .194 | 1.4 |
| 1939 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -131.8 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 29 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 147 | 71 | 79 | 35 | 8 | 137.3 | 4.65 | 1.646 | 2.29 | 5.19 | 111.6 | 99.9 | 1.3 |
| 1938 | 25 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 147 | 67 | 66 | 28 | 8 | 125.0 | 4.82 | 1.704 | 2.02 | 5.13 | 101.9 | 104.4 | 1.4 |
| 1939 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5.0 | 5.40 | 2.200 | 3.60 | 7.01 | 175.3 | 74.1 | 0.0 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-08-14 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1937-06-23 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1937-09-10 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1938-05-22 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1937-06-27 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-06-23 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 7.2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1938-07-08 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| 1937-07-11 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 1937-08-14 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
| 1937-09-10 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 6.2 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 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.