Otis Starks
Hilldale Club 1919; Chicago American Giants 1921; St. Louis Giants 1921; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1922–1923; Atlantic City Bacharach Giants 1924; New York Lincoln Giants 1924; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1927; Atlantic City Bacharach Giants 1929; Brooklyn Eagles 1935
Percentile snapshot
1927 season — qualified pitchers
of 130 qualified 1927 pitchers (min 34 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1919 | 9 | 19 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .158 | .111 | .269 | -10.7 | -17.8 | .143 | 0.5 |
| 1921 | 12 | 28 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .042 | .080 | .083 | .163 | -39.5 | -51.2 | .084 | 0.2 |
| 1922 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -87.5 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| 1923 | 7 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .267 | .267 | .333 | .600 | 68.9 | 67.5 | .275 | 0.7 |
| 1924 | 19 | 43 | 39 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .103 | .167 | .103 | .269 | -9.1 | -25.7 | .143 | -0.6 |
| 1927 | 6 | 20 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .263 | .125 | .388 | 24.4 | 4.2 | .219 | -0.6 |
| 1929 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 37.9 | -12.4 | .256 | -0.2 |
| 1935 | 11 | 28 | 26 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .269 | .321 | .269 | .591 | 59.0 | 50.7 | .283 | 0.6 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1919 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 41 | 15 | 21 | 17 | 1 | 47.0 | 2.87 | 1.319 | 3.26 | 4.11 | 121.2 | 118.2 | 0.5 |
| 1921 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 98 | 39 | 23 | 38 | 5 | 80.7 | 4.35 | 1.500 | 4.24 | 4.20 | 106.0 | 91.0 | 0.2 |
| 1922 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 10.0 | 7.20 | 1.900 | 5.40 | 4.99 | 114.2 | 60.7 | -0.3 |
| 1923 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 14 | 11 | 23 | 2 | 38.3 | 3.29 | 1.200 | 5.40 | 3.91 | 99.1 | 120.1 | 0.7 |
| 1924 | 16 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 130 | 64 | 42 | 52 | 3 | 102.3 | 5.63 | 1.681 | 4.57 | 4.30 | 98.0 | 78.0 | -0.6 |
| 1927 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 55 | 32 | 20 | 17 | 4 | 41.7 | 6.91 | 1.800 | 3.67 | 5.27 | 115.1 | 66.3 | -0.6 |
| 1929 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4.3 | 12.46 | 2.538 | 0.00 | 8.56 | 157.1 | 43.7 | -0.2 |
| 1935 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 70 | 31 | 19 | 16 | 4 | 55.3 | 5.04 | 1.608 | 2.60 | 5.44 | 106.8 | 101.1 | 0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923-05-13 | BRG @ BBS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1935-06-15 | NE @ HOM Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1935-07-14 | TIC @ NE Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1921-08-01 | CHG @ SLS Gameday | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1923-08-22 | BRG @ HIL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923-08-26 | BRG @ BBS Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| 1921-08-01 | CHG @ SLS Gameday | 9.0 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1921-06-08 | COL @ CAG Gameday | 7.0 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 1921-06-26 | CAG @ ABC Gameday | 7.0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 1921-06-02 | CUB @ CAG Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 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.