Goose Tatum
Birmingham Black Barons 1941–1942; Cincinnati Clowns 1943; Cincinnati-Indianapolis Clowns 1945–1947; Indianapolis Clowns 1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 6 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .417 | .533 | .417 | .950 | 171.2 | 183.0 | .451 | 0.2 |
| 1942 | 7 | 20 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .158 | .200 | .263 | .463 | 41.0 | 37.2 | .219 | -0.1 |
| 1943 | 30 | 121 | 115 | 15 | 31 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .270 | .306 | .417 | .723 | 115.0 | 121.2 | .341 | 0.5 |
| 1945 | 5 | 22 | 20 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .350 | .409 | .350 | .759 | 124.3 | 123.4 | .369 | 0.1 |
| 1946 | 17 | 66 | 59 | 11 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .271 | .338 | .424 | .762 | 118.4 | 124.5 | .366 | 0.2 |
| 1947 | 29 | 118 | 113 | 14 | 32 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .283 | .308 | .372 | .679 | 80.4 | 82.4 | .320 | -0.1 |
| 1948 | 20 | 81 | 68 | 6 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .250 | .338 | .279 | .617 | 75.2 | 66.4 | .306 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-08-31 | IC @ HSL Gameday | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1947-04-17 | MEM @ IC Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1946-06-21 | IC @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1943-07-19 | MEM @ IC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1943-06-13 | MEM @ IC Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-04-13 | BBB @ NBY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-04-13 | NBY @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-04-20 | NBY @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-05-04 | NE @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-05-11 | KCM @ BBB 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.