Fred Scherman
Detroit Tigers 1969–1973; Houston Astros 1974–1975; Montreal Expos 1975–1976
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
| 1970 | 48 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | -23.9 | -7.7 | .154 | 1.1 |
| 1971 | 69 | 30 | 24 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .208 | .321 | .208 | .530 | 60.4 | 52.2 | .274 | 2.4 |
| 1972 | 57 | 24 | 22 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .130 | .091 | .221 | -55.1 | -33.5 | .115 | 0.1 |
| 1973 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.4 |
| 1974 | 53 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -123.6 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
| 1975 | 50 | 18 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .059 | .111 | .118 | .229 | -53.9 | -37.4 | .117 | 0.7 |
| 1976 | 31 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 32.6 | 41.2 | .235 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4.0 | 6.75 | 1.500 | 6.75 | 7.36 | 197.4 | 55.3 | -0.1 |
| 1970 | 48 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 25 | 28 | 58 | 5 | 69.7 | 3.23 | 1.278 | 7.49 | 2.95 | 78.9 | 115.6 | 1.1 |
| 1971 | 69 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 91 | 34 | 49 | 46 | 11 | 113.0 | 2.71 | 1.239 | 3.66 | 4.24 | 120.5 | 130.1 | 2.4 |
| 1972 | 57 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 91 | 38 | 53 | 53 | 5 | 94.0 | 3.64 | 1.532 | 5.07 | 3.69 | 118.4 | 85.5 | 0.1 |
| 1973 | 34 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 29 | 30 | 28 | 6 | 61.7 | 4.23 | 1.443 | 4.09 | 4.54 | 113.2 | 94.8 | 0.4 |
| 1974 | 53 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 28 | 26 | 35 | 5 | 61.3 | 4.11 | 1.516 | 5.14 | 4.12 | 117.6 | 85.3 | 0.1 |
| 1975 | 50 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 105 | 39 | 45 | 56 | 7 | 92.7 | 3.79 | 1.619 | 5.44 | 4.04 | 109.4 | 98.1 | 0.7 |
| 1976 | 31 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 22 | 14 | 18 | 5 | 40.0 | 4.95 | 1.400 | 4.05 | 4.65 | 129.6 | 72.4 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975-06-28 | STL @ WSH Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1971-05-28 | DET @ MIL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1971-09-13 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1970-07-07 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1970-07-16 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975-07-12 | WSH @ ATL Gameday | 4.2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| 1970-07-07 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1975-07-18 | CIN @ WSH Gameday | 3.0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1973-08-10 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 8.1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 1970-09-10 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 3.2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 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.