Charlie James
St. Louis Cardinals 1960–1964; Cincinnati Reds 1965
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 43 | 51 | 50 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .180 | .196 | .320 | .516 | 24.0 | 34.4 | .228 | -0.5 |
| 1961 | 108 | 371 | 349 | 43 | 89 | 19 | 2 | 4 | 44 | 15 | 59 | 2 | 2 | .255 | .288 | .355 | .644 | 60.7 | 64.3 | .288 | -1.1 |
| 1962 | 129 | 405 | 388 | 50 | 107 | 13 | 4 | 8 | 59 | 10 | 58 | 3 | 4 | .276 | .301 | .392 | .693 | 75.5 | 78.4 | .311 | -0.5 |
| 1963 | 116 | 365 | 347 | 34 | 93 | 14 | 2 | 10 | 45 | 10 | 64 | 2 | 1 | .268 | .291 | .406 | .697 | 91.0 | 92.2 | .314 | 0.2 |
| 1964 | 88 | 246 | 233 | 24 | 52 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 17 | 11 | 58 | 0 | 0 | .223 | .261 | .335 | .596 | 57.0 | 61.3 | .270 | -0.8 |
| 1965 | 26 | 41 | 39 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .205 | .225 | .205 | .430 | 10.3 | 19.2 | .202 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963-07-06 | STL @ SF Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1964-05-15 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1963-05-09 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1964-06-04 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1962-06-26 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
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.