Namon Washington
Indianapolis ABCs 1920–1924; Hilldale Club 1925–1927; Philadelphia Tigers 1928; New York Lincoln Giants 1929; Baltimore Sox 1933
Percentile snapshot
1929 season — qualified batters
of 165 qualified 1929 batters (min 210 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | 41 | 178 | 163 | 20 | 37 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 0 | .227 | .276 | .252 | .527 | 61.5 | 58.2 | .264 | -0.5 |
| 1921 | 79 | 322 | 275 | 44 | 63 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 24 | 3 | 15 | 0 | .229 | .298 | .247 | .545 | 63.4 | 54.9 | .271 | -0.3 |
| 1922 | 87 | 399 | 337 | 64 | 88 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 38 | 42 | 1 | 13 | 0 | .261 | .345 | .312 | .656 | 84.4 | 77.5 | .317 | 0.2 |
| 1923 | 81 | 350 | 295 | 46 | 83 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 30 | 31 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .281 | .350 | .376 | .726 | 91.7 | 89.4 | .341 | 0.8 |
| 1924 | 20 | 71 | 65 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .169 | .206 | .169 | .375 | 13.5 | 3.5 | .186 | -0.5 |
| 1925 | 44 | 151 | 128 | 24 | 30 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .234 | .329 | .266 | .594 | 66.1 | 55.6 | .293 | -0.1 |
| 1926 | 84 | 325 | 273 | 38 | 69 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 41 | 35 | 14 | 16 | 6 | .253 | .344 | .308 | .652 | 84.6 | 78.9 | .322 | 0.1 |
| 1927 | 28 | 105 | 93 | 11 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | .215 | .270 | .269 | .539 | 46.3 | 41.6 | .260 | -0.4 |
| 1928 | 8 | 38 | 33 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .270 | .212 | .482 | 38.5 | 26.1 | .242 | -0.2 |
| 1929 | 66 | 310 | 265 | 68 | 77 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 29 | 0 | 14 | 0 | .291 | .363 | .366 | .729 | 82.8 | 78.4 | .346 | 0.1 |
| 1933 | 9 | 33 | 30 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .188 | .133 | .321 | 3.2 | -10.6 | .161 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920-08-03 | ABC @ CUB Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1923-05-07 | ABC @ TOL Gameday | 6 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1923-06-07 | ABC @ SLS Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 1921-07-13 | CHG @ ABC Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1923-07-16 | KCM @ ABC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920-05-02 | CHG @ ABC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-02 | CHG @ ABC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-09 | CUB @ ABC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-09 | CUB @ ABC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-10 | CUB @ ABC 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.