Bucky Walters

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 180 lb

BornApril 19, 1909 · Philadelphia, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 17, 1931

Final gameJuly 23, 1950

Seasons19 (1931–1950)

Boston Braves 1931–1932; Boston Red Sox 1933–1934; Philadelphia Phillies 1934–1937; Cincinnati Reds 1938; Philadelphia Phillies 1938; Cincinnati Reds 1939–1948; Boston Braves 1950

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified pitchers

51.2

35.7

53.6

SHO

72.6

166

58.3

65.5

54.8

28.6

48.8

168.0

42.9

ERA

2.68

77.4

WHIP

1.292

54.8

K/9

2.41

13.1

FIP

3.51

51.2

FIP-

95.5

47.6

ERA+

137.3

77.4

sWAR

4.1

82.1

of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

114.0

80.2

sWAR

53.2

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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
1931	9	38	38	2	8	2	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.211	.211	.263	.474	18.0	29.0	.214	-0.3
1932	22	83	75	8	14	3	1	0	4	2	18	0	0	.187	.208	.253	.461	19.3	26.1	.208	-0.5
1933	52	225	195	27	50	8	3	4	28	19	24	1	1	.256	.326	.390	.715	86.0	87.1	.332	0.4
1934	106	415	388	46	97	24	7	8	56	22	66	1	0	.250	.294	.410	.703	69.3	75.1	.316	0.3
1935	49	107	96	14	24	2	1	0	6	9	12	0	0	.250	.314	.292	.606	54.5	55.5	.287	1.7
1936	64	131	121	12	29	10	1	1	16	7	15	0	0	.240	.281	.364	.645	56.8	63.3	.296	3.7
1937	56	144	137	15	38	6	0	1	16	5	16	1	0	.277	.303	.343	.646	63.3	68.4	.298	1.8
1938	51	110	99	16	19	3	0	1	8	8	23	1	0	.192	.259	.253	.512	39.1	39.7	.247	1.5
1939	40	131	120	16	39	8	1	1	16	5	12	1	0	.325	.357	.433	.790	112.0	113.2	.362	10.2
1940	37	127	117	11	24	3	0	1	18	4	14	2	0	.205	.231	.256	.488	27.6	35.5	.227	7.8
1941	39	117	106	6	20	6	0	0	9	7	13	0	0	.189	.239	.245	.484	32.3	37.8	.233	5.8
1942	40	104	99	13	24	6	1	2	13	3	13	0	0	.242	.265	.384	.649	81.6	90.2	.300	5.2
1943	37	101	90	11	24	7	1	1	12	6	15	1	0	.267	.313	.400	.713	104.0	107.9	.335	2.5
1944	37	120	107	9	30	4	0	0	13	8	18	0	0	.280	.330	.318	.648	87.1	87.3	.310	7.1
1945	24	67	61	11	14	3	0	3	8	3	14	2	0	.230	.266	.426	.692	85.6	93.7	.316	4.1
1946	24	63	55	6	7	2	0	0	5	4	12	2	0	.127	.186	.164	.350	-11.4	1.5	.177	2.7
1947	20	49	45	3	12	2	0	0	4	2	13	0	0	.267	.298	.311	.609	57.6	62.4	.284	-0.9
1948	7	15	15	1	4	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	.267	.267	.267	.533	37.1	46.2	.246	0.1
1950	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.5	-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
1934	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	8	1	2	7	1	7.0	1.29	1.429	9.00	4.23	91.4	360.0	0.3
1935	24	22	9	9	0	8	2	168	70	68	40	9	151.0	4.17	1.563	2.38	4.76	106.5	107.1	1.7
1936	40	33	11	21	0	15	4	284	122	115	66	11	258.0	4.26	1.547	2.30	4.48	100.0	105.3	3.7
1937	37	34	14	15	0	15	3	292	130	86	87	14	246.3	4.75	1.535	3.18	4.07	96.2	89.0	1.8
1938	39	34	15	14	1	20	3	259	117	108	93	13	251.0	4.20	1.462	3.33	4.02	106.5	89.6	1.5
1939	39	36	27	11	0	31	2	250	81	109	137	15	319.0	2.29	1.125	3.87	3.64	94.6	168.6	10.2
1940	36	36	22	10	0	29	3	241	84	92	115	19	305.0	2.48	1.092	3.39	3.76	99.3	152.7	7.8
1941	37	35	19	15	2	27	5	292	95	88	129	10	302.0	2.83	1.258	3.84	3.04	85.1	126.0	5.8
1942	34	32	15	14	0	21	2	223	75	73	109	8	253.7	2.66	1.167	3.87	2.76	84.6	122.5	5.2
1943	34	34	15	15	0	21	5	244	97	109	80	8	246.3	3.54	1.433	2.92	3.58	109.4	92.5	2.5
1944	34	32	23	8	1	27	6	233	76	87	77	10	285.0	2.40	1.123	2.43	3.40	98.7	143.7	7.1
1945	22	22	10	10	0	12	3	166	50	51	45	6	168.0	2.68	1.292	2.41	3.51	95.5	137.3	4.1
1946	22	22	10	7	0	10	2	146	43	64	60	9	151.3	2.56	1.388	3.57	3.61	109.6	128.8	2.7
1947	20	20	8	8	0	5	2	137	78	49	43	15	122.0	5.75	1.525	3.17	4.74	117.3	70.3	-0.9
1948	7	5	0	3	0	1	0	42	18	18	19	6	35.0	4.63	1.714	4.89	5.25	135.5	83.7	0.1
1950	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	2	0	0	4.0	4.50	1.750	0.00	3.96	101.3	86.7	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

715

2,149

1,966

227

477

RBI

234

114

303

.2426

OBP

.2859

SLG

.3444

OPS

.6303

Pitching

G (P)

428

398

142nd-most career GS

198

123rd-most career W

160

121st-most career L

242

91st-most career CG

SHO

38th-most career SHO

3,105

124th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,107

476th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,121

70th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.302

311th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3241

K/9

3.21

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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1934-05-13	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	2	4	1	2	6	12
1945-05-20	CIN @ ATL Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	3	8
1933-08-07	BOS @ ATH Gameday	4	2	2	1	1	5	7
1937-09-29	SF @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	5	6
1933-08-16	BOS @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	4	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1942-05-10	STL @ CIN Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	2	10	0
1937-05-31	ATL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	11	3	2	1	9	2
1938-09-23	CIN @ PIT Gameday	12.0	7	4	3	4	8	0
1939-05-06	CIN @ ATL Gameday	9.0	11	4	3	1	8	0
1941-08-21	CIN @ ATL Gameday	9.0	10	5	5	1	8	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

1× Most Valuable Player1× Pitching Triple Crown6× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.