Gordon Goldsberry
Chicago White Sox 1949–1951; St. Louis Browns 1952
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 39 | 163 | 145 | 25 | 36 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 0 | .248 | .331 | .317 | .649 | 73.5 | 73.9 | .318 | -0.3 |
| 1950 | 82 | 155 | 127 | 19 | 34 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 25 | 26 | 18 | 0 | 2 | .268 | .392 | .409 | .802 | 112.0 | 108.4 | .380 | 0.4 |
| 1951 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .231 | .091 | .322 | -1.4 | -9.2 | .189 | -0.2 |
| 1952 | 86 | 268 | 227 | 30 | 52 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 34 | 37 | 0 | 2 | .229 | .330 | .335 | .664 | 82.1 | 81.2 | .320 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950-05-30 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 1950-05-21 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1952-08-31 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1949-05-01 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 1952-04-20 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-04-19 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-20 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-21 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-22 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-23 | BAL @ CWS 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.