Robert Gaston
Homestead Grays 1932–1933; Homestead Grays 1935; Homestead Grays 1939–1945; Homestead Grays 1947–1948
Percentile snapshot
1941 season — qualified batters
of 140 qualified 1941 batters (min 139 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 82.4 | 84.3 | .317 | 0.0 |
| 1933 | 5 | 18 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .083 | .353 | .083 | .436 | 65.0 | 26.2 | .272 | 0.0 |
| 1935 | 15 | 28 | 25 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .286 | .280 | .566 | 52.5 | 43.4 | .271 | 0.0 |
| 1939 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .333 | .273 | .606 | 70.9 | 62.3 | .296 | 0.0 |
| 1940 | 36 | 128 | 110 | 10 | 24 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .218 | .306 | .282 | .588 | 63.0 | 53.9 | .289 | 0.1 |
| 1941 | 45 | 161 | 148 | 17 | 36 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .243 | .287 | .338 | .624 | 75.9 | 74.5 | .292 | 0.4 |
| 1942 | 20 | 75 | 62 | 8 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .339 | .446 | .387 | .833 | 139.3 | 138.4 | .410 | 0.8 |
| 1943 | 17 | 55 | 48 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .229 | .302 | .271 | .573 | 62.6 | 53.5 | .286 | 0.0 |
| 1944 | 20 | 69 | 59 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .220 | .313 | .322 | .635 | 76.3 | 70.4 | .309 | 0.2 |
| 1945 | 10 | 35 | 26 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .429 | .346 | .775 | 129.1 | 118.4 | .393 | 0.3 |
| 1947 | 16 | 48 | 43 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .140 | .229 | .209 | .438 | 28.9 | 20.4 | .223 | -0.2 |
| 1948 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .100 | .100 | .200 | -43.8 | -42.1 | .095 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-05-10 | BEG @ HOM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1942-07-18 | CLB @ HOM Gameday | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1940-08-18 | PHS @ HOM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1942-07-23 | HOM @ CLB Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1941-07-26 | PHS @ HOM Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-04-15 | HOM @ DTW Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-16 | DTW @ HOM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-07 | CLS @ HOM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-08 | HOM @ CLS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-08 | HOM @ CLS 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.