MLB / Players

Pepper Martin

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 170 lb

BornFebruary 29, 1904 · Temple, OK, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1928

Final gameOctober 1, 1944

Seasons13 (1928–1944)

St. Louis Cardinals 1928; St. Louis Cardinals 1930–1940; St. Louis Cardinals 1944

Percentile snapshot

1936 season — qualified batters

143

54.2

634

572

66.7

121

90.8

177

69.2

80.8

81.7

71.7

RBI

61.7

10.8

97.5

39.2

.309

58.3

OBP

.373

48.3

SLG

.469

63.3

OPS

.842

63.3

wRC+

126.2

76.7

OPS+

126.1

73.3

wOBA

.385

62.5

sWAR

3.6

76.7

of 121 qualified 1936 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

114.7

70.9

OPS+

114.6

71.1

sWAR

23.3

94.8

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1928	39	16	13	11	4	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	.308	.400	.308	.708	95.0	87.0	.348	0.0
1930	6	1	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-114.7	-100.0	.000	0.0
1931	123	449	413	68	124	32	8	7	75	30	40	16	.300	.351	.467	.818	115.0	115.7	.370	2.5
1932	85	355	323	47	77	19	6	4	34	30	31	9	.238	.305	.372	.677	78.5	79.2	.307	0.3
1933	145	669	599	122	189	36	12	8	57	67	46	26	.316	.387	.456	.843	140.5	135.6	.390	5.9
1934	110	488	454	74	131	25	11	5	49	32	41	23	.289	.337	.425	.762	97.8	98.8	.345	1.7
1935	135	575	539	121	161	41	6	9	54	33	58	20	.299	.341	.447	.789	107.1	108.3	.355	2.5
1936	143	634	572	121	177	36	11	11	76	58	66	23	.309	.373	.469	.842	126.2	126.1	.385	3.6
1937	98	373	339	60	103	27	8	5	38	33	50	9	.304	.366	.475	.841	124.6	124.7	.382	2.3
1938	91	290	269	34	79	18	2	2	38	18	34	4	.294	.340	.398	.738	97.1	98.0	.341	0.8
1939	88	316	281	48	86	17	7	3	37	30	35	6	.306	.375	.448	.823	116.8	115.1	.379	1.7
1940	86	253	228	28	72	15	4	3	39	22	24	6	.316	.378	.456	.835	127.1	125.1	.382	1.4
1944	40	102	86	15	24	4	0	2	4	15	11	2	.279	.386	.395	.781	127.5	122.3	.373	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
1934	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2.0	4.50	.500	0.00	3.09	73.1	93.9	1.7
1936	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	2.0	0.00	1.500	0.00	6.04	151.5	—	3.6

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

1,189

4,521

4,117

754

1,227

270

331st-most career 3B

RBI

501

369

438

146

.2980

250th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3576

SLG

.4430

OPS

.8006

497th-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

2.250

WHIP

1.0000

K/9

0.00

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
1933-05-05	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	4	4	1	1	1	1	0	10
1936-07-14	LAD @ STL Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	6	1	9
1931-09-13	PHI @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
1933-07-29	CHC @ STL Gameday	6	2	4	1	0	1	5	0	8
1931-05-07	STL @ PIT Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	4	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB
1934-08-19	ATL @ STL Gameday	2.0	1	1	1	0
1936-08-07	STL @ CHC Gameday	2.0	1	0	0	2
1928-04-11	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-12	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-14	CHC @ STL Gameday	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

4× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.