Don Padgett
St. Louis Cardinals 1937–1941; Brooklyn Dodgers 1946; Boston Braves 1946; Philadelphia Phillies 1947–1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 123 | 477 | 446 | 62 | 140 | 22 | 6 | 10 | 74 | 30 | 43 | 4 | 0 | .314 | .357 | .457 | .815 | 117.0 | 117.9 | .370 | 2.1 |
| 1938 | 110 | 407 | 388 | 59 | 105 | 26 | 5 | 8 | 65 | 18 | 28 | 0 | 0 | .271 | .303 | .425 | .728 | 89.6 | 94.1 | .330 | 0.4 |
| 1939 | 92 | 257 | 233 | 38 | 93 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 53 | 18 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .399 | .444 | .554 | .998 | 165.9 | 160.4 | .453 | 3.4 |
| 1940 | 93 | 268 | 240 | 24 | 58 | 15 | 1 | 6 | 41 | 26 | 14 | 1 | 0 | .242 | .321 | .388 | .708 | 90.6 | 91.0 | .328 | 1.2 |
| 1941 | 107 | 346 | 324 | 39 | 80 | 18 | 0 | 5 | 44 | 21 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .247 | .293 | .349 | .642 | 72.1 | 76.7 | .301 | -0.2 |
| 1946 | 63 | 138 | 128 | 8 | 30 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 30 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .234 | .285 | .336 | .621 | 68.5 | 75.1 | .295 | 0.3 |
| 1947 | 75 | 175 | 158 | 14 | 50 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .316 | .383 | .380 | .763 | 108.2 | 105.6 | .358 | 1.1 |
| 1948 | 36 | 78 | 74 | 3 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .230 | .260 | .270 | .530 | 37.9 | 44.8 | .248 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-09-23 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 1940-07-30 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1937-09-21 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1941-05-22 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1937-09-07 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-04-20 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-04-22 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-04-23 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-04-24 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-04-25 | CHC @ STL 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.