Herbert Gay
Chicago American Giants 1929; Birmingham Black Barons 1930; Baltimore Black Sox 1930
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .091 | .000 | .091 | -54.1 | -74.2 | .068 | -0.3 |
| 1930 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .222 | .125 | .347 | 2.4 | -1.8 | .186 | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 21 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 30.3 | 6.23 | 1.780 | 2.67 | 6.82 | 151.1 | 72.5 | -0.3 |
| 1930 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 39 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 25.3 | 6.04 | 1.934 | 1.78 | 5.92 | 118.1 | 81.8 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-05-05 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1930-04-28 | CUB @ BBB Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-29 | CUB @ BBB Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-30 | CUB @ BBB Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-05-01 | CUB @ BBB Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-05-01 | CUB @ BBB Gameday | 10.0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 1930-05-05 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 3.2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-28 | CUB @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-29 | CUB @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-30 | CUB @ 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.