Buster Mills
St. Louis Cardinals 1934; Brooklyn Dodgers 1935; Boston Red Sox 1937; St. Louis Browns 1938; New York Yankees 1940; Cleveland Indians 1942; Cleveland Indians 1946
Percentile snapshot
1938 season — qualified batters
of 122 qualified 1938 batters (min 483 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 29 | 80 | 72 | 7 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .236 | .295 | .361 | .656 | 69.1 | 71.4 | .300 | 0.0 |
| 1935 | 17 | 65 | 56 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .323 | .339 | .662 | 83.2 | 79.4 | .313 | 0.0 |
| 1937 | 123 | 566 | 505 | 85 | 149 | 25 | 8 | 7 | 58 | 46 | 41 | 11 | 8 | .295 | .361 | .418 | .779 | 93.6 | 93.9 | .358 | 0.9 |
| 1938 | 123 | 520 | 466 | 66 | 133 | 24 | 4 | 3 | 46 | 43 | 46 | 7 | 8 | .285 | .350 | .373 | .723 | 78.6 | 78.6 | .338 | -0.2 |
| 1940 | 34 | 70 | 63 | 10 | 25 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .397 | .457 | .587 | 1.044 | 171.2 | 169.9 | .464 | 0.8 |
| 1942 | 80 | 220 | 195 | 19 | 54 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 26 | 23 | 18 | 5 | 4 | .277 | .353 | .333 | .687 | 101.5 | 99.2 | .334 | 0.7 |
| 1946 | 9 | 25 | 22 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | .273 | .360 | .273 | .633 | 88.8 | 83.6 | .314 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-07-14 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 1937-07-20 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1934-04-26 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1937-06-05 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1942-07-26 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934-04-17 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-04-18 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-04-19 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-04-21 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-04-22 | CHC @ 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.