Cotton Pippen
St. Louis Cardinals 1936; Detroit Tigers 1939; Philadelphia Athletics 1939; Detroit Tigers 1940
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .333 | .500 | 19.1 | 32.1 | .218 | -0.7 |
| 1939 | 28 | 47 | 40 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .205 | .125 | .330 | -13.5 | -15.4 | .174 | -0.8 |
| 1940 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.5 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 21.0 | 7.71 | 2.143 | 3.43 | 6.81 | 170.6 | 51.7 | -0.7 |
| 1939 | 28 | 19 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 187 | 90 | 46 | 38 | 14 | 132.7 | 6.11 | 1.756 | 2.58 | 5.00 | 107.2 | 76.4 | -0.8 |
| 1940 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 16 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 21.3 | 6.75 | 1.828 | 3.80 | 5.45 | 116.8 | 69.2 | -0.4 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-09-16 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1936-08-28 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1939-06-04 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1939-05-30 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1939-07-21 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-07-16 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 8.1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 1 |
| 1939-09-08 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1936-08-28 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 8.0 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| 1940-04-19 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 6.0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| 1939-07-21 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 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.