Carey Selph
St. Louis Cardinals 1929; Chicago White Sox 1932
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 25 | 59 | 51 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .235 | .316 | .294 | .610 | 54.8 | 52.4 | .292 | -0.1 |
| 1932 | 116 | 435 | 396 | 50 | 112 | 19 | 8 | 0 | 51 | 31 | 9 | 7 | 6 | .283 | .341 | .371 | .712 | 89.2 | 88.7 | .331 | 1.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-08-27 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1932-08-29 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1932-04-12 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1932-05-02 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1932-06-20 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929-04-16 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929-04-17 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929-04-18 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929-04-19 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929-04-21 | STL @ CHC 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.