Norm Branch
New York Yankees 1941–1942
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 27 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .091 | .000 | .091 | -77.9 | -73.7 | .069 | 0.9 |
| 1942 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 86.7 | 91.7 | .314 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 27 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 15 | 26 | 28 | 2 | 47.0 | 2.87 | 1.340 | 5.36 | 3.78 | 94.6 | 139.2 | 0.9 |
| 1942 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 11 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 15.7 | 6.32 | 2.170 | 7.47 | 6.44 | 183.7 | 55.5 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-05-31 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1941-04-14 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-04-15 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-04-16 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-04-17 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-05-30 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 4.1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| 1941-09-01 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 3.2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1941-08-25 | NYY @ CWS Gameday | 1.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1942-05-31 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 1.0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1941-07-15 | NYY @ CWS Gameday | 4.1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 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.