Owen Friend
St. Louis Browns 1949–1950; Cleveland Indians 1953; Detroit Tigers 1953; Boston Red Sox 1955; Chicago Cubs 1955–1956
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .375 | .375 | .375 | .750 | 88.7 | 92.7 | .355 | 0.0 |
| 1950 | 119 | 427 | 372 | 48 | 88 | 15 | 2 | 8 | 50 | 40 | 68 | 2 | 1 | .237 | .312 | .352 | .664 | 61.1 | 64.8 | .313 | -0.5 |
| 1953 | 65 | 177 | 164 | 17 | 33 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 23 | 11 | 25 | 0 | 1 | .201 | .256 | .329 | .585 | 50.8 | 58.2 | .271 | -0.4 |
| 1955 | 20 | 56 | 52 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .286 | .288 | .574 | 47.4 | 51.0 | .275 | -0.1 |
| 1956 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.1 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950-05-23 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1950-08-06 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 1953-06-03 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1955-04-22 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1950-06-06 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-04-19 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-20 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-21 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-22 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-23 | BAL @ CWS 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.