Loren Babe
New York Yankees 1952–1953; Philadelphia Athletics 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 12 | 25 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .095 | .240 | .143 | .383 | 17.9 | 12.4 | .211 | -0.2 |
| 1953 | 108 | 401 | 361 | 36 | 83 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 26 | 35 | 22 | 0 | 1 | .230 | .302 | .305 | .606 | 57.0 | 59.9 | .289 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-04-22 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1953-04-24 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1953-09-11 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1953-08-23 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1953-09-12 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-05-16 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952-05-18 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952-06-19 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952-06-23 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952-06-24 | NYY @ BAL 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.