Roy Cullenbine

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornOctober 18, 1913 · Nashville, TN, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1938

Final gameSeptember 28, 1947

Seasons10 (1938–1947)

Detroit Tigers 1938–1939; Brooklyn Dodgers 1940; St. Louis Browns 1940–1941; New York Yankees 1942; St. Louis Browns 1942; Washington Senators 1942; Cleveland Indians 1943–1945; Detroit Tigers 1945–1947

Percentile snapshot

1947 season — qualified batters

142

56.3

607

464

31.1

75.7

104

19.4

26.2

1.9

89.3

RBI

72.8

137

28.2

29.1

30.1

.224

3.9

OBP

.401

86.4

SLG

.422

60.2

OPS

.823

72.8

wRC+

135.5

83.5

OPS+

127.4

76.7

wOBA

.396

81.6

sWAR

3.4

74.8

of 104 qualified 1947 batters (min 489 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

138.5

95.5

OPS+

132.9

92.3

sWAR

32.6

96.9

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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
1938	25	79	67	12	19	1	3	0	9	12	9	2	0	.284	.392	.388	.780	95.6	91.4	.370	0.1
1939	75	214	179	31	43	9	2	6	23	34	29	0	1	.240	.362	.413	.775	95.1	93.3	.361	0.4
1940	108	394	318	49	70	12	2	8	40	73	45	2	1	.220	.369	.346	.715	92.8	85.0	.343	0.5
1941	149	629	501	82	159	29	9	9	98	121	43	6	4	.317	.452	.465	.917	145.9	138.5	.430	4.9
1942	123	524	427	61	118	33	1	6	66	92	40	1	4	.276	.405	.400	.805	133.6	127.1	.390	3.4
1943	138	598	488	66	141	24	4	8	56	96	58	3	4	.289	.407	.404	.811	150.6	143.7	.394	4.7
1944	154	666	571	98	162	34	5	16	80	87	49	4	4	.284	.380	.445	.825	141.8	139.4	.390	4.7
1945	154	657	536	83	146	28	5	18	93	113	36	2	0	.272	.402	.444	.846	148.2	139.8	.407	5.1
1946	113	419	328	63	110	21	0	15	56	88	39	3	0	.335	.477	.537	1.014	189.2	177.1	.469	5.3
1947	142	607	464	82	104	18	1	24	78	137	51	3	2	.224	.401	.422	.823	135.5	127.4	.396	3.4

Career totals

1,181

4,787

3,879

627

1,072

209

110

RBI

599

853

216th-most career BB

399

.2764

OBP

.4082

46th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4318

OPS

.8400

244th-highest career OPS

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
1941-06-03	MIN @ BAL Gameday	6	2	5	2	1	0	4	0	9
1944-06-03	NYY @ CLE Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	2	1	9
1939-09-22	DET @ CLE Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	4	1	8
1946-07-05	CLE @ DET Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	4	0	8
1946-07-04	CLE @ DET Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-04-19	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-20	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-21	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-22	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-23	CLE @ DET 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

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.