Emery Adams
Memphis Red Sox 1932; Memphis Red Sox 1937–1938; Baltimore Elite Giants 1939–1942; New York Black Yankees 1943; Philadelphia Stars 1943; New York Black Yankees 1945–1947
Percentile snapshot
1942 season — qualified pitchers
of 109 qualified 1942 pitchers (min 38 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 20 | 50 | 48 | 7 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .396 | .408 | .458 | .866 | 156.0 | 164.1 | .410 | 0.9 |
| 1937 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .375 | .375 | .375 | .750 | 105.1 | 107.9 | .347 | 0.2 |
| 1938 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -76.2 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| 1939 | 11 | 20 | 19 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .579 | .600 | .579 | 1.179 | 202.6 | 213.9 | .549 | 0.1 |
| 1940 | 29 | 61 | 60 | 8 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .283 | .283 | .417 | .700 | 76.7 | 80.5 | .316 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 20 | 44 | 43 | 7 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .349 | .364 | .395 | .759 | 109.7 | 112.7 | .352 | 2.5 |
| 1942 | 19 | 30 | 29 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .310 | .333 | .345 | .678 | 92.0 | 93.5 | .323 | 0.7 |
| 1943 | 27 | 89 | 80 | 13 | 28 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .350 | .395 | .438 | .833 | 117.7 | 122.3 | .396 | -2.1 |
| 1945 | 19 | 56 | 49 | 6 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .352 | .367 | .719 | 102.3 | 101.6 | .346 | 0.3 |
| 1946 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | — | 331.0 | — | .771 | 0.0 |
| 1947 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .400 | .400 | .600 | 1.000 | 160.3 | 171.6 | .456 | 0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 71 | 30 | 24 | 29 | 3 | 65.3 | 4.13 | 1.454 | 3.99 | 4.52 | 121.4 | 90.2 | 0.9 |
| 1937 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 21.3 | 4.64 | 1.734 | 2.53 | 6.10 | 136.3 | 96.5 | 0.2 |
| 1938 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4.0 | 11.25 | 2.250 | 2.25 | 8.24 | 193.2 | 37.9 | -0.3 |
| 1939 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 17 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 21.3 | 7.17 | 1.500 | 3.80 | 6.17 | 127.4 | 67.5 | 0.1 |
| 1940 | 25 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 122 | 48 | 50 | 71 | 12 | 136.3 | 3.17 | 1.262 | 4.69 | 5.30 | 101.5 | 164.8 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 70 | 28 | 38 | 30 | 5 | 86.7 | 2.91 | 1.246 | 3.12 | 5.08 | 115.1 | 151.8 | 2.5 |
| 1942 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 23 | 30 | 21 | 3 | 51.0 | 4.06 | 1.412 | 3.71 | 4.99 | 127.1 | 96.7 | 0.7 |
| 1943 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 53 | 22 | 12 | 2 | 35.3 | 13.50 | 2.575 | 3.06 | 6.05 | 125.8 | 35.6 | -2.1 |
| 1945 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 16.0 | 3.94 | 1.625 | 7.31 | 2.66 | 64.5 | 104.7 | 0.3 |
| 1946 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | 4.50 | 1.000 | 0.00 | 5.19 | 117.6 | 98.1 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-05-30 | NBY @ BEG Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1932-08-08 | BEG @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1940-07-14 | HOM @ BEG Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1943-05-16 | NYC @ NBY Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1943-07-11 | NBY @ NE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-08-06 | BEG @ MEM Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 1945-07-09 | IC @ NBY Gameday | 9.0 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 1940-07-14 | HOM @ BEG Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 1940-07-20 | BEG @ PHS Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1940-09-08 | BEG @ NYC Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.