MLB / Players

Red Barkley

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 160 lb
BornSeptember 19, 1912 · Childress, TX, USA
MLB debutSeptember 2, 1937
Final gameAugust 14, 1943
Seasons3 (1937–1943)

St. Louis Browns 1937; Boston Bees 1939; Brooklyn Dodgers 1943

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
0.2
52.3

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19373111710192760014141710.267.357.327.68373.770.5.3270.0
19391212111000001200.000.083.000.083-82.2-75.2.063-0.2
194320575161630074710.314.364.373.736112.8111.4.3530.4

Career totals

G
63
PA
186
AB
163
R
16
H
43
2B
9
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
21
BB
19
SO
26
SB
2
BA
.2638
OBP
.3407
SLG
.3190
OPS
.6597

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1943-07-10PIT @ LAD Gameday533100414
1937-09-25BAL @ CWS Gameday313000213
1943-06-27LAD @ PHI Gameday413000203
1937-09-30DET @ BAL Gameday512100303
1937-09-02ATH @ BAL Gameday312100113

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1937-04-21CWS @ BAL Gameday0.0000000
1937-04-22CWS @ BAL Gameday0.0000000
1937-04-23BAL @ CLE Gameday0.0000000
1937-04-24BAL @ CLE Gameday0.0000000
1937-04-25BAL @ CLE Gameday0.0000000

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.