Ron Samford
New York Giants 1954; Detroit Tigers 1955; Detroit Tigers 1957; Washington Senators 1959
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -135.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1955 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.1 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1957 | 54 | 99 | 91 | 6 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 1 | 0 | .220 | .276 | .275 | .550 | 48.0 | 50.5 | .262 | -0.1 |
| 1959 | 91 | 255 | 237 | 23 | 53 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 22 | 11 | 29 | 1 | 0 | .224 | .262 | .342 | .604 | 60.5 | 64.4 | .274 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959-05-02 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 1959-09-07 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1957-06-26 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1959-04-28 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1959-05-17 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-04-30 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-05-01 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-05-03 | SF @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-05-09 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-07-03 | SF @ PIT 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.