Ralph Birkofer
Pittsburgh Pirates 1933–1936; Brooklyn Dodgers 1937
Percentile snapshot
1934 season — qualified pitchers
of 103 qualified 1934 pitchers (min 151 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933 | 9 | 22 | 22 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .318 | .318 | .318 | .636 | 77.6 | 82.4 | .295 | 1.3 |
| 1934 | 41 | 78 | 75 | 6 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .227 | .237 | .267 | .504 | 25.7 | 33.7 | .230 | 2.1 |
| 1935 | 38 | 59 | 58 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .241 | .254 | .328 | .582 | 47.6 | 53.8 | .262 | 1.8 |
| 1936 | 34 | 42 | 41 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .220 | .238 | .244 | .482 | 22.5 | 29.6 | .225 | 0.3 |
| 1937 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .333 | .273 | .606 | 66.5 | 64.6 | .293 | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 43 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 1 | 50.7 | 2.31 | 1.184 | 3.55 | 3.10 | 93.2 | 144.1 | 1.3 |
| 1934 | 41 | 24 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 227 | 93 | 66 | 71 | 11 | 204.0 | 4.10 | 1.436 | 3.13 | 4.13 | 100.4 | 100.4 | 2.1 |
| 1935 | 37 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 173 | 68 | 42 | 80 | 5 | 150.3 | 4.07 | 1.430 | 4.79 | 3.35 | 81.8 | 100.5 | 1.8 |
| 1936 | 34 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 130 | 57 | 41 | 44 | 4 | 109.3 | 4.69 | 1.564 | 3.62 | 3.98 | 98.4 | 86.1 | 0.3 |
| 1937 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 22 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 29.7 | 6.67 | 1.820 | 2.73 | 4.57 | 114.5 | 59.8 | -0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934-05-01 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1935-08-14 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1935-07-31 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1933-08-30 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1933-09-16 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935-06-22 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 1 |
| 1933-09-23 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| 1934-09-27 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 8.0 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1935-08-06 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 8.0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 1935-07-24 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 7.0 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 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.