Branch Rickey
St. Louis Browns 1905–1906; New York Highlanders 1907; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -105.7 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1906 | 65 | 223 | 201 | 22 | 57 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 16 | 26 | 4 | 0 | .284 | .345 | .393 | .738 | 133.2 | 133.9 | .356 | 2.2 |
| 1907 | 52 | 152 | 137 | 16 | 25 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 11 | 25 | 4 | 0 | .182 | .253 | .234 | .487 | 48.8 | 49.0 | .248 | -0.5 |
| 1914 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.5 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906-08-06 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1906-09-15 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1906-08-02 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1907-07-27 | CLE @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 1907-08-05 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905-04-14 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1905-04-15 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1905-04-16 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1905-04-17 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1905-04-19 | CLE @ 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.