Irv Higginbotham
St. Louis Cardinals 1906; St. Louis Cardinals 1908; Chicago Cubs 1909; St. Louis Cardinals 1909
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 | 7 | 19 | 18 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .263 | .222 | .485 | 50.4 | 52.8 | .245 | 0.1 |
| 1908 | 19 | 40 | 38 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .132 | .154 | .132 | .285 | -20.1 | -8.3 | .143 | -0.4 |
| 1909 | 22 | 31 | 29 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .207 | .233 | .207 | .440 | 32.1 | 37.7 | .219 | 1.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 50 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 1 | 47.3 | 3.23 | 1.289 | 2.66 | 2.70 | 104.9 | 79.7 | 0.1 |
| 1908 | 19 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 113 | 38 | 33 | 38 | 0 | 107.0 | 3.20 | 1.364 | 3.20 | 2.25 | 96.8 | 72.7 | -0.4 |
| 1909 | 22 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 69 | 21 | 22 | 34 | 0 | 89.3 | 2.12 | 1.019 | 3.43 | 2.23 | 87.2 | 120.7 | 1.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906-08-24 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1909-07-10 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1906-08-19 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1906-08-31 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1908-06-01 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1908-09-26 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 14.0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| 1908-06-28 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1906-08-24 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1909-09-10 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1908-09-23 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 8.0 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 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.