Johnny Bucha
St. Louis Cardinals 1948; St. Louis Cardinals 1950; Detroit Tigers 1953
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .500 | 117.9 | 43.4 | .375 | 0.0 |
| 1950 | 22 | 40 | 36 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .139 | .225 | .167 | .392 | -1.6 | 3.4 | .197 | -0.2 |
| 1953 | 60 | 180 | 158 | 17 | 35 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 20 | 14 | 1 | 1 | .222 | .309 | .297 | .606 | 63.2 | 63.5 | .293 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-07-05 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1953-09-09 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1953-08-11 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1953-08-09 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1953-06-28 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-04-20 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-21 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-22 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-23 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-24 | STL @ 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.