Bud Byerly
St. Louis Cardinals 1943–1945; Cincinnati Reds 1950–1952; Washington Senators 1956–1957; Boston Red Sox 1958; Washington Senators 1958; San Francisco Giants 1959–1960
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -137.3 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
| 1944 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | -20.6 | -5.1 | .156 | 0.4 |
| 1945 | 33 | 31 | 23 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .217 | .308 | .217 | .525 | 52.7 | 47.9 | .269 | 0.0 |
| 1950 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -129.8 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.4 |
| 1951 | 41 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .143 | .000 | .143 | -60.9 | -58.5 | .106 | 1.2 |
| 1952 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | -5.0 | 11.1 | .184 | -0.2 |
| 1956 | 25 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .182 | -72.9 | -51.7 | .085 | 1.1 |
| 1957 | 47 | 15 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .067 | .067 | .200 | .267 | -56.3 | -30.4 | .113 | 1.7 |
| 1958 | 35 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -134.7 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.4 |
| 1959 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.5 |
| 1960 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -120.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 13.0 | 3.46 | 1.462 | 4.15 | 2.70 | 80.0 | 97.6 | 0.1 |
| 1944 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 37 | 16 | 20 | 13 | 2 | 42.3 | 3.40 | 1.346 | 2.76 | 3.95 | 111.3 | 104.2 | 0.4 |
| 1945 | 33 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 111 | 50 | 41 | 39 | 3 | 95.0 | 4.74 | 1.600 | 3.69 | 3.55 | 94.1 | 79.6 | 0.0 |
| 1950 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 14.7 | 2.45 | 1.091 | 3.07 | 3.48 | 83.6 | 169.6 | 0.4 |
| 1951 | 40 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 24 | 25 | 28 | 6 | 66.0 | 3.27 | 1.424 | 3.82 | 3.94 | 98.1 | 122.7 | 1.2 |
| 1952 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 14 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 24.7 | 5.11 | 1.459 | 5.11 | 2.13 | 57.1 | 73.2 | -0.2 |
| 1956 | 25 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 17 | 14 | 19 | 6 | 51.7 | 2.96 | 1.142 | 3.31 | 4.21 | 101.0 | 140.8 | 1.1 |
| 1957 | 47 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 33 | 22 | 39 | 6 | 95.0 | 3.13 | 1.221 | 3.69 | 3.13 | 80.9 | 123.6 | 1.7 |
| 1958 | 35 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 24 | 18 | 29 | 5 | 54.3 | 3.98 | 1.528 | 4.80 | 3.68 | 95.0 | 98.3 | 0.4 |
| 1959 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 13.0 | 1.38 | 1.231 | 2.77 | 5.16 | 137.6 | 271.0 | 0.5 |
| 1960 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 13 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 22.0 | 5.32 | 1.727 | 5.32 | 4.20 | 118.3 | 66.7 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-06-23 | CLE @ MIN Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1945-06-16 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1945-07-04 | STL @ SF Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1944-09-23 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1945-07-18 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-07-04 | STL @ SF Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1945-07-18 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 8.2 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 1943-09-26 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 8.0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1957-06-23 | CLE @ MIN Gameday | 5.0 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1945-04-22 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 2.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 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.