Les Backman
St. Louis Cardinals 1909–1910
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909 | 21 | 44 | 39 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .103 | .186 | .103 | .289 | -6.2 | -9.2 | .162 | -1.6 |
| 1910 | 26 | 41 | 35 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .114 | .244 | .200 | .444 | 35.7 | 30.3 | .238 | 1.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909 | 21 | 15 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 146 | 59 | 39 | 35 | 1 | 128.3 | 4.14 | 1.442 | 2.45 | 2.69 | 106.2 | 61.1 | -1.6 |
| 1910 | 26 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 117 | 39 | 53 | 41 | 4 | 116.0 | 3.03 | 1.466 | 3.18 | 3.54 | 118.3 | 99.0 | 1.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910-07-04 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1910-05-12 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1909-08-05 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1909-07-15 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1909-08-09 | SF @ STL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909-08-21 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 12.2 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 0 |
| 1909-08-14 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1910-05-04 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 7.0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| 1910-05-29 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 4.2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 1909-08-26 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 6.0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 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.