Earl Bumpus
Birmingham Black Barons 1944; Kansas City Monarchs 1944; Birmingham Black Barons 1945; Chicago American Giants 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 21 | 59 | 56 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .196 | .237 | .214 | .452 | 43.0 | 40.5 | .225 | -0.5 |
| 1945 | 13 | 31 | 30 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .367 | .387 | .533 | .920 | 155.5 | 167.7 | .424 | 0.6 |
| 1947 | 24 | 78 | 66 | 8 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .212 | .325 | .288 | .613 | 74.7 | 65.4 | .309 | -0.1 |
| 1948 | 5 | 17 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .071 | .235 | .071 | .307 | 13.5 | -15.2 | .190 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 15 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 27.0 | 5.00 | 1.481 | 3.67 | 4.05 | 120.4 | 67.3 | -0.5 |
| 1945 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 10.0 | 2.70 | 1.600 | 3.60 | 4.27 | 100.6 | 157.0 | 0.6 |
| 1947 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 57 | 28 | 25 | 22 | 0 | 41.3 | 6.10 | 1.984 | 4.79 | 4.95 | 100.5 | 80.8 | -0.1 |
| 1948 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 10.7 | 7.59 | 2.156 | 5.91 | 5.66 | 116.9 | 63.7 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-08-13 | PHS @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1947-05-22 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 1945-06-17 | NYC @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1947-08-04 | CAG @ NBY Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1947-07-09 | CLB @ CAG Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-05-08 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 0 |
| 1948-08-25 | CAG @ CLB Gameday | 7.2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1944-07-09 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| 1947-07-28 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 6.0 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 1945-08-13 | PHS @ BBB Gameday | 9.0 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 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.