Howard Freigau
St. Louis Cardinals 1922–1924; Chicago Cubs 1925; St. Louis Cardinals 1925; Chicago Cubs 1926–1927; Brooklyn Robins 1928; Boston Braves 1928
Percentile snapshot
1926 season — qualified batters
of 159 qualified 1926 batters (min 480 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -112.8 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1923 | 113 | 392 | 358 | 30 | 94 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 25 | 36 | 5 | 4 | .263 | .314 | .327 | .641 | 70.5 | 70.6 | .302 | 0.2 |
| 1924 | 98 | 406 | 376 | 35 | 101 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 39 | 19 | 24 | 10 | 3 | .269 | .306 | .362 | .667 | 77.3 | 79.9 | .307 | 0.4 |
| 1925 | 126 | 551 | 502 | 79 | 150 | 22 | 10 | 8 | 71 | 32 | 32 | 10 | 6 | .299 | .342 | .430 | .772 | 94.1 | 95.6 | .349 | 1.6 |
| 1926 | 140 | 569 | 508 | 51 | 137 | 27 | 7 | 3 | 51 | 43 | 42 | 6 | 0 | .270 | .327 | .368 | .695 | 86.1 | 86.8 | .325 | 1.1 |
| 1927 | 30 | 96 | 86 | 12 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .233 | .313 | .291 | .603 | 66.3 | 63.7 | .293 | 0.0 |
| 1928 | 69 | 161 | 143 | 17 | 35 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 10 | 17 | 1 | 0 | .245 | .299 | .350 | .648 | 68.0 | 71.3 | .301 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925-09-09 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 1925-06-12 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1925-08-29 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1924-07-04 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1925-09-19 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922-04-12 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1922-04-13 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1922-04-15 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1922-04-16 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1922-04-17 | CHC @ STL 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.