MLB / Players

Debs Garms

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 165 lb

BornJune 26, 1907 · Bangs, TX, USA

MLB debutAugust 10, 1932

Final gameSeptember 25, 1945

Seasons12 (1932–1945)

St. Louis Browns 1932–1935; Boston Bees 1937–1939; Pittsburgh Pirates 1940–1941; St. Louis Cardinals 1943–1945

Percentile snapshot

1939 season — qualified batters

132

44.8

566

50.6

513

51.7

32.2

153

50.6

37.9

75.9

11.5

RBI

17.2

36.8

19.5

48.3

.298

OBP

.350

29.9

SLG

.392

26.4

OPS

.742

21.8

wRC+

104.8

37.9

OPS+

105.2

40.2

wOBA

.344

25.3

sWAR

1.7

36.8

of 88 qualified 1939 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

103.7

49.1

OPS+

102.9

47.9

sWAR

11.1

88.1

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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
1932	34	152	134	20	38	7	1	1	8	17	7	4	3	.284	.364	.373	.737	88.7	86.5	.346	0.3
1933	78	223	189	35	60	10	2	4	24	30	21	2	5	.317	.416	.455	.871	127.3	124.3	.406	1.4
1934	91	266	232	25	68	14	4	0	31	27	19	0	0	.293	.372	.388	.760	90.1	88.8	.359	0.3
1935	10	17	15	1	4	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	.267	.353	.267	.620	62.2	57.9	.308	0.0
1937	125	521	478	60	124	15	8	2	37	37	33	2	0	.259	.317	.337	.653	85.7	85.8	.306	0.5
1938	117	474	428	62	135	19	1	0	47	34	22	4	0	.315	.371	.364	.736	115.0	113.5	.346	2.2
1939	132	566	513	68	153	24	9	2	37	39	20	2	0	.298	.350	.392	.742	104.8	105.2	.344	1.7
1940	103	385	358	76	127	23	7	5	57	23	6	3	0	.355	.395	.500	.895	147.0	145.6	.406	3.5
1941	83	245	220	25	58	9	3	3	42	22	12	0	0	.264	.331	.373	.703	97.2	97.8	.332	0.6
1943	90	268	249	26	64	10	2	0	22	13	8	1	0	.257	.299	.313	.612	72.1	76.7	.295	-0.2
1944	73	164	149	17	30	3	0	0	5	13	8	0	0	.201	.265	.221	.487	37.4	39.3	.241	-0.8
1945	74	180	146	23	49	7	2	0	18	31	3	0	0	.336	.452	.411	.863	150.3	141.7	.419	1.7

Career totals

1,010

3,461

3,111

438

910

141

RBI

328

288

161

.2925

355th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3555

SLG

.3793

OPS

.7348

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	TB
1933-06-05	CWS @ BAL Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	3	8
1940-07-20	ATL @ PIT Gameday	6	1	4	1	1	0	5	7
1934-08-02	CWS @ BAL Gameday	5	1	3	0	2	0	3	7
1940-09-21	CIN @ PIT Gameday	6	3	5	1	0	0	2	6
1941-07-16	PIT @ ATL Gameday	6	2	4	0	1	0	4	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1932-04-12	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-13	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-14	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-15	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-16	BAL @ DET 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.