Piper Davis
Birmingham Black Barons 1942–1944; Homestead Grays 1944; Birmingham Black Barons 1945–1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -87.6 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1943 | 41 | 170 | 149 | 32 | 45 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 26 | 19 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .302 | .385 | .463 | .848 | 153.1 | 159.8 | .404 | 1.9 |
| 1944 | 33 | 135 | 126 | 16 | 26 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .206 | .259 | .310 | .569 | 74.9 | 74.3 | .277 | -0.2 |
| 1945 | 25 | 104 | 92 | 14 | 34 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .370 | .422 | .511 | .932 | 160.3 | 172.1 | .433 | 1.0 |
| 1946 | 10 | 45 | 36 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .278 | .409 | .444 | .854 | 146.6 | 151.7 | .417 | 0.4 |
| 1947 | 14 | 63 | 58 | 15 | 21 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .362 | .413 | .569 | .982 | 149.0 | 162.9 | .453 | 0.6 |
| 1948 | 28 | 117 | 107 | 25 | 42 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .393 | .444 | .533 | .977 | 152.1 | 160.8 | .451 | 1.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-05-21 | MEM @ BBB Gameday | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 1947-08-12 | BBB @ BEG Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1948-06-03 | MEM @ BBB Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1943-07-13 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1943-08-29 | BBB @ CLB Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-05-10 | JRC @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-05-10 | JRC @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-05-11 | BBB @ JRC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-05-12 | BBB @ JRC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-05-17 | CAG @ 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.