Jack Saltzgaver
New York Yankees 1932; New York Yankees 1934–1937; Pittsburgh Pirates 1945
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 20 | 60 | 47 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 1 | .128 | .281 | .213 | .493 | 39.9 | 30.0 | .255 | -0.2 |
| 1934 | 94 | 406 | 350 | 64 | 95 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 36 | 48 | 28 | 8 | 1 | .271 | .359 | .351 | .711 | 94.2 | 90.9 | .340 | 1.1 |
| 1935 | 61 | 175 | 149 | 17 | 39 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 23 | 12 | 0 | 2 | .262 | .368 | .362 | .730 | 100.4 | 96.3 | .349 | 0.6 |
| 1936 | 34 | 105 | 90 | 14 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 13 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .211 | .311 | .300 | .611 | 60.1 | 55.6 | .295 | -0.2 |
| 1937 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .357 | .182 | .539 | 56.6 | 40.1 | .293 | -0.1 |
| 1945 | 52 | 126 | 117 | 20 | 38 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .325 | .368 | .419 | .787 | 114.0 | 114.6 | .370 | 0.7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935-09-09 | CLE @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1934-05-28 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 1935-08-28 | NYY @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1935-08-21 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 1934-07-31 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-04-12 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-15 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-16 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-19 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-19 | NYY @ BOS 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.