Elmer Singleton
Boston Braves 1945–1946; Pittsburgh Pirates 1947–1948; Washington Senators 1950; Chicago Cubs 1957–1959
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -124.2 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1946 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -142.2 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
| 1947 | 41 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .308 | .308 | .462 | .769 | 91.8 | 98.3 | .342 | -0.8 |
| 1948 | 38 | 24 | 23 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .087 | .087 | .087 | .174 | -78.2 | -53.5 | .080 | -0.2 |
| 1950 | 21 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .429 | .429 | .571 | 1.000 | 156.4 | 157.5 | .452 | 0.2 |
| 1957 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.4 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.4 |
| 1958 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -130.9 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.2 |
| 1959 | 21 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.6 | -100.0 | .000 | 1.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 35 | 20 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 37.3 | 4.82 | 1.313 | 3.38 | 3.44 | 89.9 | 79.3 | -0.2 |
| 1946 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 14 | 21 | 17 | 3 | 33.7 | 3.74 | 1.426 | 4.54 | 4.43 | 128.9 | 91.8 | 0.1 |
| 1947 | 36 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 47 | 39 | 24 | 9 | 67.0 | 6.31 | 1.627 | 3.22 | 5.43 | 129.1 | 66.7 | -0.8 |
| 1948 | 38 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 51 | 40 | 53 | 11 | 92.3 | 4.97 | 1.408 | 5.17 | 4.30 | 105.8 | 81.8 | -0.2 |
| 1950 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 21 | 17 | 19 | 4 | 36.3 | 5.20 | 1.541 | 4.71 | 4.50 | 100.9 | 85.8 | 0.2 |
| 1957 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 13.3 | 6.75 | 1.650 | 4.05 | 4.99 | 128.2 | 57.6 | -0.4 |
| 1958 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4.7 | 0.00 | .429 | 3.86 | 2.29 | 58.5 | — | 0.2 |
| 1959 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 13 | 12 | 25 | 2 | 43.0 | 2.72 | 1.209 | 5.23 | 2.90 | 73.4 | 145.2 | 1.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-08-23 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1950-08-27 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1950-07-16 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1947-09-11 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1948-06-17 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-09-26 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 7.2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1948-04-24 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| 1948-05-30 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 5.0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| 1945-09-05 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 7.0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1948-05-09 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 7.0 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
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.