Buster Adams

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornJune 24, 1915 · Trinidad, CO, USA

MLB debutApril 27, 1939

Final gameSeptember 21, 1947

Seasons6 (1939–1947)

St. Louis Cardinals 1939; Philadelphia Blue Jays 1943; St. Louis Cardinals 1943; Philadelphia Blue Jays 1944; Philadelphia Phillies 1945; St. Louis Cardinals 1945–1946; Philadelphia Phillies 1947

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified batters

154

94.6

707

96.4

634

98.2

104

94.6

182

94.6

6.3

97.3

RBI

109

95.5

3.6

34.2

35.1

.287

65.8

OBP

.353

56.8

SLG

.440

OPS

.793

73.9

wRC+

119.0

63.1

OPS+

120.6

66.7

wOBA

.371

69.4

sWAR

4.0

84.7

of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

10.4

87.4

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1939	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-134.7	-100.0	.000	0.0
1943	119	484	429	49	108	15	7	4	39	43	71	2	.252	.320	.347	.667	93.4	94.1	.322	1.4
1944	151	682	584	86	165	35	3	17	64	74	74	2	.283	.370	.440	.810	130.3	128.6	.378	4.9
1945	154	707	634	104	182	29	1	22	109	62	80	3	.287	.353	.440	.793	119.0	120.6	.371	4.0
1946	81	209	173	21	32	6	0	5	22	29	27	3	.185	.312	.306	.619	76.5	74.4	.307	0.0
1947	69	209	182	21	45	11	1	2	15	26	29	2	.247	.341	.352	.693	88.5	86.5	.328	0.1

Career totals

576

2,292

2,003

282

532

RBI

249

234

281

.2656

OBP

.3462

SLG

.4004

OPS

.7466

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
1944-08-22	PHI @ CIN Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	9
1944-04-25	SF @ PHI Gameday	5	1	3	2	0	1	3	1	8
1944-05-21	PHI @ PIT Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	2	0	8
1944-07-27	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	5	0	7
1943-06-18	PHI @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	0	3	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1939-04-18	STL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-21	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-22	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-23	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-25	CIN @ STL 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.