Oscar Grimes
Cleveland Indians 1938–1942; New York Yankees 1943–1946; Philadelphia Athletics 1946
Percentile snapshot
1945 season — qualified batters
of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 471 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .333 | .400 | .733 | 86.8 | 85.7 | .342 | 0.0 |
| 1939 | 119 | 432 | 364 | 51 | 98 | 20 | 5 | 4 | 56 | 56 | 61 | 8 | 3 | .269 | .368 | .385 | .753 | 100.8 | 97.9 | .354 | 1.3 |
| 1940 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -116.7 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| 1941 | 77 | 291 | 244 | 28 | 58 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 24 | 39 | 47 | 4 | 0 | .238 | .345 | .348 | .693 | 92.3 | 89.1 | .331 | 0.2 |
| 1942 | 51 | 100 | 84 | 10 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 17 | 3 | 2 | .179 | .289 | .202 | .491 | 49.3 | 43.4 | .256 | -0.2 |
| 1943 | 9 | 23 | 20 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .150 | .261 | .150 | .411 | 24.7 | 22.2 | .223 | -0.1 |
| 1944 | 116 | 456 | 387 | 44 | 108 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 46 | 59 | 57 | 6 | 0 | .279 | .377 | .403 | .780 | 125.3 | 120.8 | .374 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 142 | 595 | 480 | 64 | 127 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 45 | 97 | 73 | 7 | 6 | .265 | .395 | .358 | .753 | 125.5 | 115.7 | .374 | 4.0 |
| 1946 | 73 | 271 | 230 | 29 | 58 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 28 | 36 | 2 | 1 | .252 | .336 | .291 | .627 | 78.1 | 76.6 | .307 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-08-22 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 1944-09-22 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1945-08-21 | NYY @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1944-09-23 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1939-09-14 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-04-19 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-20 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-21 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-22 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-23 | CLE @ DET 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.