Mike Busby
St. Louis Cardinals 1996–1999
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 176.1 | 167.6 | .455 | -0.5 |
| 1997 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 175.3 | 165.1 | .455 | -0.5 |
| 1998 | 26 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .250 | -3.0 | -26.2 | .184 | 0.3 |
| 1999 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4.0 | 18.00 | 3.250 | 9.00 | 17.84 | 427.7 | 23.2 | -0.5 |
| 1997 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 14.3 | 8.79 | 1.953 | 3.77 | 4.89 | 117.2 | 47.4 | -0.5 |
| 1998 | 26 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 23 | 15 | 33 | 3 | 46.0 | 4.50 | 1.304 | 6.46 | 3.78 | 89.7 | 93.8 | 0.3 |
| 1999 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 17.7 | 7.13 | 1.981 | 3.57 | 6.47 | 141.1 | 64.3 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-09-16 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1996-04-07 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998-05-20 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997-09-21 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997-09-26 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-04-07 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 4.0 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 1997-09-16 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 6.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 1998-04-17 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 3.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998-05-08 | STL @ NYM Gameday | 3.0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998-04-29 | WSH @ STL Gameday | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 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.