Pepper Sharpe
Memphis Red Sox 1943; Chicago American Giants 1944; Memphis Red Sox 1944; Memphis Red Sox 1947–1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 6 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .385 | .417 | .801 | 141.3 | 145.9 | .384 | -0.3 |
| 1944 | 14 | 31 | 30 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .300 | .300 | .367 | .667 | 100.4 | 106.4 | .316 | -0.1 |
| 1947 | 9 | 16 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .467 | .333 | .800 | 126.0 | 116.8 | .409 | 0.5 |
| 1948 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 163.9 | 168.3 | .473 | 0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4.3 | 12.46 | 2.769 | 2.08 | 5.11 | 135.7 | 30.2 | -0.3 |
| 1944 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 12 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 23.0 | 4.70 | 1.217 | 5.87 | 3.33 | 99.0 | 71.7 | -0.1 |
| 1947 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 21.7 | 4.15 | 1.662 | 2.91 | 4.52 | 91.7 | 118.6 | 0.5 |
| 1948 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 13.0 | 4.85 | 1.462 | 2.08 | 7.76 | 160.3 | 99.9 | 0.2 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-08-22 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1943-08-01 | MEM @ CLB Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1944-05-28 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1947-08-12 | NYC @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1948-04-11 | CLB @ MEM Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-06-01 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 8.0 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1944-09-04 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 8.0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 1947-08-12 | NYC @ MEM Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 1944-05-28 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 4.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1948-08-26 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
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.