Gene Baker
Kansas City Monarchs 1948; Chicago Cubs 1953–1957; Pittsburgh Pirates 1957–1958; Pittsburgh Pirates 1960–1961
Percentile snapshot
1956 season — qualified batters
of 83 qualified 1956 batters (min 486 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 46 | 200 | 181 | 39 | 45 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 28 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .249 | .306 | .425 | .732 | 91.3 | 94.4 | .336 | 0.6 |
| 1953 | 7 | 24 | 22 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .227 | .261 | .273 | .534 | 30.7 | 37.5 | .244 | -0.1 |
| 1954 | 135 | 603 | 541 | 68 | 149 | 32 | 5 | 13 | 61 | 47 | 55 | 4 | 5 | .275 | .333 | .425 | .758 | 93.5 | 94.9 | .339 | 1.7 |
| 1955 | 154 | 681 | 609 | 82 | 163 | 29 | 7 | 11 | 52 | 49 | 57 | 9 | 7 | .268 | .323 | .392 | .715 | 89.2 | 88.0 | .322 | 1.6 |
| 1956 | 140 | 606 | 546 | 65 | 141 | 23 | 3 | 12 | 57 | 39 | 54 | 4 | 3 | .258 | .309 | .377 | .686 | 83.8 | 83.9 | .307 | 1.1 |
| 1957 | 123 | 458 | 409 | 40 | 108 | 22 | 5 | 3 | 46 | 35 | 32 | 3 | 2 | .264 | .322 | .364 | .687 | 86.0 | 87.5 | .307 | 1.0 |
| 1958 | 29 | 66 | 56 | 3 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .338 | .321 | .660 | 83.8 | 79.2 | .310 | 0.1 |
| 1960 | 33 | 40 | 37 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .243 | .275 | .243 | .518 | 41.0 | 44.2 | .243 | -0.1 |
| 1961 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .308 | .100 | .408 | 10.5 | 15.8 | .199 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-07-09 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 1956-05-02 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 8 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1956-06-15 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1954-07-08 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 1955-07-27 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-04-11 | IC @ KCM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-30 | KCM @ IC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-05-01 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-05-02 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-05-06 | MEM @ KCM 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.
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.