Paul Popovich
Chicago Cubs 1964; Chicago Cubs 1966–1967; Los Angeles Dodgers 1968; Chicago Cubs 1969; Los Angeles Dodgers 1969; Chicago Cubs 1970–1973; Pittsburgh Pirates 1974–1975
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 512.2 | 456.6 | .915 | 0.1 |
| 1966 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1967 | 49 | 173 | 159 | 18 | 34 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 1 | .214 | .265 | .239 | .504 | 41.1 | 42.5 | .244 | -0.4 |
| 1968 | 134 | 462 | 418 | 35 | 97 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 29 | 37 | 1 | 3 | .232 | .280 | .270 | .551 | 71.3 | 72.5 | .264 | 0.5 |
| 1969 | 88 | 231 | 204 | 31 | 58 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 19 | 18 | 0 | 1 | .284 | .347 | .328 | .675 | 89.1 | 84.2 | .323 | 0.6 |
| 1970 | 78 | 209 | 186 | 22 | 47 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 1 | .253 | .324 | .355 | .679 | 70.6 | 74.2 | .309 | 0.1 |
| 1971 | 89 | 243 | 226 | 24 | 49 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 28 | 14 | 17 | 0 | 1 | .217 | .260 | .310 | .570 | 46.3 | 52.8 | .267 | -0.7 |
| 1972 | 58 | 142 | 129 | 8 | 25 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 1 | .194 | .261 | .271 | .532 | 37.0 | 45.9 | .249 | -0.5 |
| 1973 | 99 | 308 | 280 | 24 | 66 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 18 | 27 | 3 | 2 | .236 | .280 | .300 | .580 | 48.3 | 56.6 | .265 | -0.7 |
| 1974 | 59 | 90 | 83 | 9 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .217 | .256 | .265 | .521 | 41.9 | 49.1 | .243 | -0.3 |
| 1975 | 25 | 44 | 40 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .273 | .225 | .498 | 42.8 | 41.3 | .250 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970-06-09 | CHC @ SD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1968-05-24 | LAD @ HOU Gameday | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1973-06-27 | WSH @ CHC Gameday | 8 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1971-09-11 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1969-06-15 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965-10-01 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1965-10-02 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1966-04-28 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1966-05-22 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1966-05-22 | CHC @ ATL 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.