Jack Bruton
Birmingham Black Barons 1937; Philadelphia Stars 1938; Cleveland Bears 1939; St. Louis-New Orleans Stars 1940–1941; Cleveland Buckeyes 1948
Percentile snapshot
1937 season — qualified pitchers
of 97 qualified 1937 pitchers (min 39 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 14 | 50 | 46 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .283 | .327 | .435 | .761 | 105.0 | 109.0 | .347 | 0.3 |
| 1938 | 14 | 22 | 21 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .238 | .238 | .286 | .524 | 41.5 | 37.7 | .238 | 0.2 |
| 1939 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .250 | -23.1 | -27.2 | .118 | -0.1 |
| 1940 | 9 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .150 | .150 | .200 | .350 | 9.4 | 5.6 | .167 | -0.6 |
| 1941 | 14 | 52 | 52 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .212 | .212 | .250 | .462 | 36.8 | 36.7 | .218 | -0.3 |
| 1948 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 37.1 | 34.1 | .234 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 82 | 37 | 15 | 34 | 6 | 60.7 | 5.49 | 1.599 | 5.04 | 5.04 | 112.6 | 81.6 | 0.3 |
| 1938 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 51 | 33 | 22 | 17 | 2 | 51.7 | 5.75 | 1.413 | 2.96 | 5.20 | 102.9 | 87.9 | 0.2 |
| 1940 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 54.00 | 9.000 | 0.00 | 12.73 | 308.2 | 7.6 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-08-15 | SLS @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1937-06-11 | BBB @ SLS Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 1941-08-11 | KCM @ HSL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1941-05-25 | HSL @ CAG Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1948-08-25 | CAG @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-07-18 | CAG @ BBB Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| 1938-05-15 | PHS @ BEG Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1937-05-16 | SLS @ BBB Gameday | 9.0 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1938-07-07 | NBY @ PHS Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| 1937-06-06 | DTS @ BBB Gameday | 7.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.