Bubba Church
Philadelphia Phillies 1950–1951; Cincinnati Reds 1952; Philadelphia Phillies 1952; Chicago Cubs 1953; Cincinnati Reds 1953; Chicago Cubs 1954–1955
Percentile snapshot
1952 season — qualified pitchers
of 61 qualified 1952 pitchers (min 154 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 39 | 48 | 44 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .200 | .227 | .427 | 2.2 | 13.7 | .195 | 3.4 |
| 1951 | 39 | 94 | 86 | 8 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .256 | .264 | .326 | .590 | 51.6 | 60.2 | .266 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 34 | 53 | 51 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .235 | .250 | .333 | .583 | 50.4 | 60.3 | .263 | 0.3 |
| 1953 | 39 | 51 | 48 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .229 | .260 | .333 | .593 | 44.5 | 51.7 | .264 | 0.3 |
| 1954 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -138.7 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.9 |
| 1955 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.5 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 31 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 113 | 43 | 56 | 50 | 12 | 142.0 | 2.73 | 1.190 | 3.17 | 4.03 | 100.1 | 147.8 | 3.4 |
| 1951 | 38 | 33 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 246 | 97 | 90 | 104 | 17 | 247.0 | 3.53 | 1.360 | 3.79 | 3.54 | 92.2 | 108.6 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 31 | 23 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 184 | 80 | 49 | 50 | 21 | 158.3 | 4.55 | 1.472 | 2.84 | 4.51 | 120.8 | 82.1 | 0.3 |
| 1953 | 38 | 18 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 170 | 87 | 68 | 59 | 25 | 148.0 | 5.29 | 1.608 | 3.59 | 5.47 | 124.8 | 82.9 | 0.3 |
| 1954 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 16 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 14.7 | 9.82 | 2.318 | 4.91 | 11.08 | 266.4 | 42.4 | -0.9 |
| 1955 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3.3 | 5.40 | 1.500 | 8.10 | 5.31 | 129.6 | 75.8 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-07-08 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1952-09-12 | CIN @ SF Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1953-09-01 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1951-06-07 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1951-08-13 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-06-21 | LAD @ CHC Gameday | 10.0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
| 1951-05-30 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 0 |
| 1951-06-07 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 1 |
| 1951-06-26 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| 1951-09-23 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 7.0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
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.