Del Gainer
Detroit Tigers 1909; Detroit Tigers 1911–1913; Boston Red Sox 1914; Detroit Tigers 1914; Boston Red Sox 1915–1917; Boston Red Sox 1919; St. Louis Cardinals 1922
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | 11.9 | 24.1 | .193 | -0.1 |
| 1911 | 70 | 283 | 248 | 32 | 75 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 25 | 20 | 43 | 10 | 0 | .302 | .366 | .403 | .770 | 111.1 | 111.9 | .370 | 0.8 |
| 1912 | 52 | 209 | 179 | 28 | 43 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 20 | 18 | 18 | 14 | 12 | .240 | .320 | .335 | .655 | 86.1 | 85.3 | .322 | -0.1 |
| 1913 | 105 | 403 | 363 | 47 | 97 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 25 | 30 | 45 | 10 | 0 | .267 | .333 | .372 | .705 | 104.5 | 106.0 | .343 | 0.7 |
| 1914 | 39 | 96 | 84 | 11 | 20 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 14 | 2 | 2 | .238 | .312 | .464 | .776 | 128.5 | 134.6 | .369 | 0.5 |
| 1915 | 82 | 240 | 200 | 30 | 59 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 29 | 21 | 31 | 7 | 2 | .295 | .371 | .415 | .786 | 138.0 | 141.0 | .384 | 1.3 |
| 1916 | 56 | 158 | 142 | 14 | 36 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 10 | 24 | 5 | 0 | .254 | .303 | .359 | .662 | 96.8 | 101.8 | .322 | 0.0 |
| 1917 | 52 | 197 | 172 | 28 | 53 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 15 | 21 | 1 | 0 | .308 | .374 | .424 | .798 | 146.2 | 147.0 | .388 | 1.3 |
| 1919 | 47 | 137 | 118 | 9 | 28 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 0 | .237 | .318 | .322 | .640 | 86.1 | 85.3 | .313 | -0.1 |
| 1922 | 43 | 116 | 97 | 19 | 26 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 23 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 2 | .268 | .360 | .485 | .845 | 118.6 | 120.4 | .383 | 0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916-07-29 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 10 |
| 1911-08-25 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1915-07-14 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1922-08-10 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1911-05-01 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909-08-03 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1909-08-03 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1909-08-04 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1909-08-04 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1909-08-06 | DET @ ATH 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.