Ed Sauer
Chicago Cubs 1943–1945; Boston Braves 1949; St. Louis Cardinals 1949
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 14 | 60 | 55 | 3 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | .273 | .322 | .327 | .649 | 86.1 | 88.1 | .313 | 0.0 |
| 1944 | 23 | 53 | 50 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .220 | .250 | .300 | .550 | 48.0 | 55.4 | .257 | -0.2 |
| 1945 | 49 | 104 | 93 | 8 | 24 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 23 | 2 | 0 | .258 | .317 | .387 | .704 | 95.3 | 98.0 | .331 | 0.2 |
| 1949 | 103 | 283 | 259 | 31 | 67 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 32 | 20 | 42 | 0 | 0 | .259 | .314 | .355 | .669 | 81.5 | 83.6 | .309 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-07-28 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1945-04-19 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 1949-08-29 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1949-04-25 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1945-04-22 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-04-21 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-04-22 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-04-24 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-04-25 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-04-27 | 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.