Dewitt Owens
Cleveland Elites 1926; Birmingham Black Barons 1927–1928; Birmingham Black Barons 1930
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 28 | 121 | 113 | 17 | 39 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | .345 | .373 | .416 | .789 | 102.1 | 103.0 | .363 | 0.1 |
| 1927 | 67 | 262 | 238 | 25 | 65 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .273 | .305 | .315 | .620 | 67.6 | 67.4 | .290 | 0.1 |
| 1928 | 80 | 280 | 257 | 18 | 58 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 0 | .226 | .255 | .268 | .523 | 45.2 | 42.9 | .245 | -0.6 |
| 1930 | 32 | 106 | 100 | 13 | 26 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | .260 | .295 | .330 | .625 | 68.7 | 66.2 | .289 | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4.3 | 14.54 | 3.000 | 0.00 | 7.96 | 169.8 | 32.2 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-06-22 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1930-07-21 | SLS @ BBB Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1930-06-26 | MEM @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1930-07-13 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1930-09-01 | BEG @ BBB Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-04-28 | CUB @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-29 | CUB @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-30 | CUB @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-05-01 | CUB @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-05-01 | CUB @ BBB 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.