Buddy Hayes
Chicago American Giants 1916; St. Louis Giants 1916; Pittsburgh Keystones 1922; Milwaukee Bears 1923; Toledo Tigers 1923; Cleveland Browns 1924
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 8 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .188 | .133 | .321 | 8.5 | -3.4 | .170 | -0.1 |
| 1922 | 12 | 27 | 24 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .292 | .370 | .333 | .704 | 95.6 | 90.3 | .339 | 0.1 |
| 1923 | 27 | 81 | 74 | 3 | 20 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .270 | .333 | .378 | .712 | 87.1 | 85.3 | .332 | 0.3 |
| 1924 | 8 | 16 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .333 | .417 | .750 | 105.3 | 104.8 | .357 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923-05-06 | ABC @ TOL Gameday | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1923-07-09 | KCM @ MIL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1923-07-01 | MIL @ ABC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1923-07-30 | MIL @ SLS Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 1922-05-22 | PTK @ ABC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922-05-03 | CTS @ PTK Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1922-05-05 | CTS @ PTK Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1922-05-06 | CTS @ PTK Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1922-05-07 | PTK @ CTS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1922-05-08 | PTK @ CTS 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.