MLB / Players

Ival Goodman

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornJuly 23, 1908 · Northview, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1935

Final gameAugust 23, 1944

Seasons10 (1935–1944)

Cincinnati Reds 1935–1942; Chicago Cubs 1943–1944

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified batters

136

54.7

594

61.9

519

134

48.9

43.2

61.9

69.8

RBI

59.7

74.8

20.1

77.7

42.4

.258

19.4

OBP

.335

29.5

SLG

.389

37.4

OPS

.724

29.5

wRC+

101.4

41.7

OPS+

100.8

wOBA

.336

30.9

sWAR

1.3

of 140 qualified 1940 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

119.9

78.8

OPS+

120.1

79.5

sWAR

20.2

93.6

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1935	148	637	592	86	159	23	18	12	72	35	50	14	.269	.314	.429	.743	97.1	99.4	.333	1.1
1936	136	545	489	81	139	15	14	17	71	38	53	6	.284	.347	.476	.823	122.8	125.1	.373	2.7
1937	147	618	549	86	150	25	12	12	55	55	58	10	.273	.347	.428	.775	113.5	113.8	.356	2.4
1938	145	648	568	103	166	27	10	30	92	53	51	3	.292	.368	.533	.901	147.8	149.3	.405	5.1
1939	124	553	470	85	152	37	16	7	84	54	32	2	.323	.401	.515	.916	148.1	146.5	.416	4.3
1940	136	594	519	78	134	20	6	12	63	60	54	9	.258	.335	.389	.724	101.4	100.8	.336	1.3
1941	42	168	149	14	40	5	2	1	12	16	15	1	.268	.343	.349	.692	98.6	97.1	.332	0.3
1942	87	257	226	21	55	18	1	0	15	24	32	0	.243	.319	.332	.651	92.1	92.1	.315	0.3
1943	80	252	225	31	72	10	5	3	45	24	20	4	.320	.390	.449	.839	146.1	142.6	.398	1.9
1944	62	168	141	24	37	8	1	1	16	23	15	0	.262	.377	.355	.732	114.9	108.3	.355	0.7

Career totals

1,107

4,440

3,928

609

1,104

188

249th-most career 3B

RBI

525

382

380

.2811

OBP

.3521

SLG

.4448

OPS

.7969

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
1938-05-02	PIT @ CIN Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	9
1939-04-27	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	1	5	0	8
1937-07-10	CIN @ STL Gameday	5	2	3	2	0	1	3	0	8
1938-07-23	PHI @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	2	0	1	3	1	8
1936-06-02	PHI @ CIN Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	2	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1935-04-16	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-04-17	CIN @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-04-18	CIN @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-04-19	CIN @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-04-20	CIN @ CHC 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.

Honors

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.