Newt Kimball
Chicago Cubs 1937–1938; Brooklyn Dodgers 1940; St. Louis Cardinals 1940; Brooklyn Dodgers 1941–1943; Philadelphia Blue Jays 1943
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -124.5 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.4 |
| 1938 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 1940 | 23 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .182 | .273 | .455 | 6.2 | 21.6 | .203 | 1.0 |
| 1941 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .267 | .214 | .481 | 31.7 | 35.5 | .238 | 0.6 |
| 1942 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | 0.0 | 17.0 | .189 | 0.2 |
| 1943 | 39 | 26 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .158 | .333 | .158 | .491 | 61.8 | 47.0 | .278 | 0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5.0 | 10.80 | 2.600 | 0.00 | 6.15 | 154.5 | 36.9 | -0.4 |
| 1938 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 9.00 | 3.000 | 9.00 | 0.74 | 19.2 | 42.7 | 0.0 |
| 1940 | 23 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 16 | 21 | 27 | 3 | 47.7 | 3.02 | 1.280 | 5.10 | 3.75 | 94.2 | 131.9 | 1.0 |
| 1941 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 43 | 21 | 29 | 17 | 0 | 52.0 | 3.63 | 1.385 | 2.94 | 3.58 | 97.1 | 101.5 | 0.6 |
| 1942 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 12 | 19 | 8 | 0 | 29.3 | 3.68 | 1.568 | 2.45 | 3.79 | 113.8 | 90.3 | 0.2 |
| 1943 | 39 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 94 | 43 | 47 | 35 | 4 | 100.7 | 3.84 | 1.401 | 3.13 | 3.72 | 112.3 | 86.3 | 0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-09-26 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1941-08-02 | LAD @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1943-06-17 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1943-07-09 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1941-08-22 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-07-13 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 1940-09-26 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1943-05-31 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 4.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1943-06-17 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1941-06-18 | LAD @ CHC Gameday | 4.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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.