Paul Richards
Brooklyn Dodgers 1932; New York Giants 1933–1935; Philadelphia Athletics 1935; Detroit Tigers 1943–1946
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -121.7 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1933 | 51 | 92 | 87 | 4 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .195 | .222 | .230 | .452 | 22.9 | 31.2 | .213 | -0.2 |
| 1934 | 42 | 89 | 75 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .160 | .284 | .173 | .457 | 37.5 | 28.3 | .239 | -0.1 |
| 1935 | 92 | 292 | 261 | 31 | 64 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 29 | 26 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .245 | .314 | .337 | .651 | 66.5 | 67.6 | .307 | 0.4 |
| 1943 | 100 | 355 | 313 | 32 | 69 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 33 | 38 | 35 | 1 | 0 | .220 | .307 | .297 | .604 | 71.9 | 72.6 | .298 | 0.9 |
| 1944 | 95 | 343 | 300 | 24 | 71 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 37 | 35 | 30 | 8 | 3 | .237 | .318 | .310 | .628 | 77.5 | 76.9 | .307 | 1.0 |
| 1945 | 83 | 256 | 234 | 26 | 60 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 32 | 19 | 31 | 4 | 0 | .256 | .315 | .355 | .670 | 87.5 | 90.4 | .322 | 1.2 |
| 1946 | 57 | 167 | 139 | 13 | 28 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 23 | 18 | 2 | 0 | .201 | .315 | .266 | .581 | 61.9 | 60.1 | .290 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-09-09 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 1943-07-18 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1944-07-08 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1935-09-18 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1935-07-06 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-04-12 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-15 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-16 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-17 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-18 | PHI @ LAD 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.