Carden Gillenwater
St. Louis Cardinals 1940; Brooklyn Dodgers 1943; Boston Braves 1945–1946; Washington Senators 1948
Percentile snapshot
1945 season — qualified batters
of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 477 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 7 | 25 | 25 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .160 | .160 | .200 | .360 | -20.7 | -3.0 | .163 | -0.3 |
| 1943 | 8 | 19 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .176 | .263 | .176 | .440 | 25.2 | 27.3 | .230 | -0.1 |
| 1945 | 144 | 600 | 517 | 74 | 149 | 20 | 2 | 7 | 72 | 73 | 70 | 13 | 0 | .288 | .379 | .375 | .755 | 113.4 | 109.5 | .365 | 3.2 |
| 1946 | 99 | 270 | 224 | 30 | 51 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 39 | 27 | 3 | 0 | .228 | .342 | .295 | .637 | 85.7 | 80.9 | .319 | 0.5 |
| 1948 | 77 | 261 | 221 | 23 | 54 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 21 | 39 | 36 | 4 | 2 | .244 | .358 | .367 | .724 | 96.4 | 94.0 | .351 | 0.8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-07-15 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1945-05-12 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 1945-08-19 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 6 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1945-08-18 | CIN @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1945-05-16 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-04-16 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-19 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-20 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-21 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-22 | STL @ CIN 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.