Ed Steele
Birmingham Black Barons 1942–1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 187.6 | 198.2 | .469 | 0.0 |
| 1943 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .417 | .583 | 68.1 | 77.0 | .264 | 0.0 |
| 1944 | 32 | 131 | 112 | 25 | 40 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 23 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .357 | .442 | .563 | 1.004 | 200.3 | 210.8 | .475 | 1.8 |
| 1945 | 27 | 115 | 100 | 17 | 39 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | .390 | .441 | .660 | 1.101 | 197.1 | 219.8 | .498 | 1.6 |
| 1946 | 9 | 40 | 27 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 1 | .259 | .487 | .370 | .858 | 156.8 | 153.6 | .435 | 0.3 |
| 1947 | 14 | 60 | 49 | 12 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .367 | .483 | .449 | .932 | 149.1 | 151.5 | .454 | 0.5 |
| 1948 | 29 | 125 | 98 | 27 | 35 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 22 | 0 | 7 | 0 | .357 | .496 | .551 | 1.047 | 170.5 | 180.0 | .486 | 1.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-05-21 | MEM @ BBB Gameday | 7 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1948-07-01 | IC @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1944-07-20 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 1944-06-04 | BBB @ NBY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1944-06-08 | BBB @ HOM Gameday | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-05-10 | JRC @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-05-10 | JRC @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-05-11 | BBB @ JRC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-05-12 | BBB @ JRC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-05-17 | CAG @ 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.