Fred Baczewski
Chicago Cubs 1953; Cincinnati Reds 1953; Cincinnati Redlegs 1954–1955
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 33 | 52 | 47 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .191 | .208 | .255 | .464 | 7.8 | 19.0 | .207 | 2.7 |
| 1954 | 29 | 49 | 42 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .071 | .093 | .071 | .164 | -84.5 | -56.8 | .081 | -0.6 |
| 1955 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 33 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 145 | 60 | 58 | 61 | 14 | 148.3 | 3.64 | 1.369 | 3.70 | 4.23 | 97.2 | 119.6 | 2.7 |
| 1954 | 29 | 22 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 159 | 76 | 53 | 43 | 22 | 130.0 | 5.26 | 1.631 | 2.98 | 5.20 | 124.0 | 79.7 | -0.6 |
| 1955 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1.0 | 18.00 | 2.000 | 0.00 | 28.31 | 671.2 | 23.4 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-07-12 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1953-07-25 | CIN @ SF Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1953-05-30 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1953-06-21 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1953-06-28 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-06-28 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 1 |
| 1954-06-06 | SF @ CIN Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 1954-04-15 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 6.1 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 2 |
| 1953-09-22 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1953-07-12 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 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.