George Giles
Kansas City Monarchs 1927–1928; St. Louis Stars 1930–1931; Homestead Grays 1932; Kansas City Monarchs 1932–1933; Baltimore Sox 1933; Kansas City Monarchs 1934; Brooklyn Eagles 1935; New York Black Yankees 1936–1937; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1938; Philadelphia Stars 1938
Percentile snapshot
1936 season — qualified batters
of 121 qualified 1936 batters (min 89 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 59 | 224 | 197 | 34 | 53 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 19 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .269 | .330 | .360 | .691 | 87.2 | 85.9 | .323 | -0.1 |
| 1928 | 72 | 309 | 271 | 38 | 82 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 38 | 19 | 3 | 6 | 0 | .303 | .353 | .406 | .759 | 105.9 | 106.5 | .350 | 0.7 |
| 1930 | 84 | 397 | 350 | 87 | 126 | 22 | 5 | 5 | 69 | 40 | 1 | 18 | 0 | .360 | .427 | .494 | .921 | 140.5 | 144.6 | .421 | 2.9 |
| 1931 | 33 | 155 | 131 | 28 | 31 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 17 | 1 | 5 | 0 | .237 | .329 | .298 | .627 | 81.4 | 75.0 | .313 | -0.1 |
| 1932 | 53 | 239 | 203 | 41 | 68 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 39 | 25 | 1 | 11 | 0 | .335 | .410 | .433 | .844 | 127.0 | 128.9 | .402 | 1.3 |
| 1933 | 8 | 31 | 27 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .519 | .581 | .704 | 1.284 | 223.6 | 242.5 | .580 | 0.7 |
| 1934 | 7 | 29 | 24 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .375 | .464 | .542 | 1.006 | 178.5 | 185.2 | .452 | 0.3 |
| 1935 | 46 | 207 | 185 | 38 | 63 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 27 | 17 | 0 | 12 | 0 | .341 | .396 | .497 | .893 | 120.2 | 123.9 | .402 | 0.9 |
| 1936 | 33 | 142 | 124 | 16 | 34 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .274 | .348 | .363 | .711 | 85.3 | 81.7 | .335 | 0.0 |
| 1937 | 36 | 158 | 137 | 31 | 45 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 16 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .328 | .403 | .467 | .870 | 121.4 | 123.3 | .395 | 0.7 |
| 1938 | 50 | 196 | 167 | 31 | 49 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 23 | 0 | 3 | 1 | .293 | .379 | .377 | .756 | 103.0 | 100.0 | .357 | 0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-05-25 | SLS @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 1930-05-04 | DTS @ SLS Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 1930-05-03 | DTS @ SLS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1930-08-19 | KCM @ SLS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1932-05-27 | HOM @ BBS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-04-26 | SLS @ BEG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-27 | SLS @ BEG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-27 | SLS @ BEG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-28 | SLS @ BEG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-29 | SLS @ BEG 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.