Jim Bucher
Brooklyn Dodgers 1934–1937; St. Louis Cardinals 1938; Boston Red Sox 1944–1945
Percentile snapshot
1935 season — qualified batters
of 117 qualified 1935 batters (min 477 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 47 | 89 | 84 | 12 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .226 | .261 | .333 | .595 | 56.5 | 60.7 | .270 | -0.1 |
| 1935 | 123 | 487 | 473 | 72 | 143 | 22 | 1 | 7 | 58 | 10 | 33 | 4 | 0 | .302 | .317 | .397 | .714 | 88.9 | 91.9 | .322 | 0.9 |
| 1936 | 110 | 403 | 370 | 49 | 93 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 41 | 29 | 27 | 5 | 0 | .251 | .306 | .343 | .649 | 71.7 | 73.3 | .303 | -0.1 |
| 1937 | 125 | 411 | 380 | 44 | 96 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 37 | 20 | 18 | 5 | 0 | .253 | .295 | .324 | .619 | 63.3 | 66.3 | .289 | -0.4 |
| 1938 | 17 | 61 | 57 | 7 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .228 | .254 | .316 | .570 | 44.1 | 52.6 | .262 | -0.2 |
| 1944 | 80 | 302 | 277 | 39 | 76 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 31 | 19 | 13 | 3 | 3 | .274 | .326 | .365 | .690 | 95.8 | 97.5 | .328 | 1.0 |
| 1945 | 52 | 161 | 151 | 19 | 34 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 3 | .225 | .264 | .291 | .556 | 50.9 | 59.6 | .267 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-09-03 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 6 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| 1944-08-30 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1935-06-26 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1935-06-23 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1936-04-21 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934-04-17 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-04-18 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-04-19 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-04-20 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-04-21 | PHI @ LAD 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.