MLB / Players

Hugh Poland

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb
BornJanuary 19, 1910 · Tompkinsville, KY, USA
MLB debutApril 22, 1943
Final gameMay 18, 1948
Seasons5 (1943–1948)

Boston Braves 1943; New York Giants 1943; Boston Braves 1944; Boston Braves 1946; Cincinnati Reds 1947; Philadelphia Phillies 1947; Cincinnati Reds 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
-1.0
5.7

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1943481591536287101551100.183.209.242.45116.930.6.215-0.7
1944823231310020100.130.130.174.304-37.5-16.4.139-0.3
19464660110000000.167.167.333.50017.839.6.2240.0
19472027261610021400.231.259.269.52834.142.1.247-0.1
19483330100000000.333.333.333.66778.182.7.3070.0

Career totals

G
83
PA
218
AB
211
R
8
H
39
2B
10
3B
1
HR
0
RBI
19
BB
6
SO
16
SB
0
BA
.1848
OBP
.2074
SLG
.2417
OPS
.4491

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1943-07-25ATL @ STL Gameday402100003
1943-08-19CIN @ ATL Gameday302100003
1943-08-24STL @ ATL Gameday402100003
1947-08-21CIN @ LAD Gameday202100003
1943-04-24SF @ ATL Gameday401010203

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1943-04-22SF @ LAD Gameday0.0000000
1943-04-24SF @ ATL Gameday0.0000000
1943-04-25SF @ ATL Gameday0.0000000
1943-04-27ATL @ SF Gameday0.0000000
1943-04-28ATL @ SF Gameday0.0000000

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.