Parnell Woods
Birmingham Black Barons 1937–1938; Cleveland Bears 1939; Birmingham Black Barons 1940; Cleveland Bears 1940; Jacksonville Red Caps 1941; Cincinnati-Cleveland Buckeyes 1942; Jacksonville Red Caps 1942; Cleveland Buckeyes 1943–1945
Percentile snapshot
1937 season — qualified batters
of 100 qualified 1937 batters (min 120 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 27 | 123 | 109 | 27 | 33 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 21 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .303 | .372 | .495 | .867 | 129.3 | 138.0 | .394 | 0.9 |
| 1938 | 23 | 96 | 86 | 12 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 0 | .209 | .284 | .244 | .528 | 63.8 | 53.0 | .263 | -0.1 |
| 1939 | 26 | 113 | 103 | 17 | 27 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | .262 | .315 | .398 | .713 | 103.6 | 106.6 | .336 | 0.5 |
| 1940 | 28 | 122 | 111 | 20 | 27 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 0 | .243 | .300 | .342 | .642 | 91.5 | 93.2 | .315 | 0.3 |
| 1941 | 5 | 22 | 20 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .300 | .364 | .350 | .714 | 112.5 | 112.0 | .349 | 0.1 |
| 1942 | 36 | 149 | 140 | 22 | 44 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0 | .314 | .351 | .464 | .816 | 133.9 | 141.6 | .378 | 1.1 |
| 1943 | 26 | 102 | 96 | 11 | 32 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .333 | .366 | .385 | .752 | 126.9 | 130.8 | .361 | 0.7 |
| 1944 | 23 | 87 | 83 | 13 | 32 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .386 | .395 | .518 | .913 | 171.8 | 182.6 | .429 | 1.1 |
| 1945 | 20 | 85 | 77 | 15 | 21 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .273 | .317 | .338 | .655 | 92.6 | 91.6 | .312 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-08-12 | MEM @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1940-06-03 | JRC @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 1937-08-15 | SLS @ BBB Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1944-06-11 | KCM @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1944-06-25 | CAG @ CLB Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-05-09 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-09 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-15 | SLS @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-16 | SLS @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-16 | SLS @ BBB 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.