James Buford
Nashville Elite Giants 1930; Cleveland Cubs 1931; Nashville Elite Giants 1932; Indianapolis ABCs/Detroit Stars 1933
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 46 | 187 | 176 | 20 | 52 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .295 | .333 | .403 | .737 | 94.5 | 95.2 | .337 | 0.6 |
| 1931 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .286 | .286 | .571 | 59.1 | 59.3 | .272 | 0.0 |
| 1932 | 36 | 138 | 129 | 18 | 38 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .295 | .321 | .349 | .670 | 101.7 | 104.2 | .320 | 0.6 |
| 1933 | 18 | 65 | 60 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .286 | .333 | .619 | 71.3 | 68.8 | .283 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.3 | 27.00 | 4.500 | 0.00 | 6.10 | 141.5 | 16.0 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-06-01 | BEG @ DTS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1932-06-05 | MON @ BEG Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1930-06-07 | BEG @ SLS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1930-07-19 | SLS @ BEG Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1933-05-01 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933-06-11 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 1.1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-26 | SLS @ BEG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-27 | SLS @ BEG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-27 | SLS @ BEG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-28 | SLS @ BEG 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.