Buddy Napier
St. Louis Browns 1912; Chicago Cubs 1918; Cincinnati Reds 1920–1921
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -104.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.4 |
| 1918 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 99.0 | 102.9 | .318 | -0.1 |
| 1920 | 9 | 17 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .353 | .286 | .639 | 98.3 | 87.9 | .323 | 1.6 |
| 1921 | 22 | 17 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .294 | .357 | .651 | 79.2 | 76.1 | .308 | -0.6 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 25.3 | 4.97 | 1.500 | 3.55 | 3.11 | 94.5 | 66.1 | -0.4 |
| 1918 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6.7 | 5.40 | 2.100 | 2.70 | 3.50 | 126.1 | 51.4 | -0.1 |
| 1920 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 47 | 7 | 7 | 17 | 0 | 49.0 | 1.29 | 1.102 | 3.12 | 2.40 | 79.2 | 235.6 | 1.6 |
| 1921 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 72 | 35 | 13 | 14 | 2 | 56.7 | 5.56 | 1.500 | 2.22 | 3.64 | 101.6 | 64.5 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921-04-21 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1920-10-02 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1921-05-06 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1920-08-30 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1918-08-12 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920-10-02 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 6.0 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 1921-04-21 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 4.2 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1920-08-24 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 9.0 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1912-09-02 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1920-08-30 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 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.