Roy Spencer
Pittsburgh Pirates 1925–1927; Washington Senators 1929–1932; Cleveland Indians 1933–1934; New York Giants 1936; Brooklyn Dodgers 1937–1938
Percentile snapshot
1931 season — qualified batters
of 117 qualified 1931 batters (min 483 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 14 | 29 | 28 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .214 | .241 | .250 | .491 | 16.4 | 23.2 | .228 | -0.1 |
| 1926 | 28 | 46 | 43 | 5 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .395 | .409 | .465 | .874 | 132.2 | 131.2 | .403 | 0.5 |
| 1927 | 38 | 97 | 92 | 9 | 26 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .283 | .305 | .337 | .642 | 63.3 | 67.6 | .299 | 0.1 |
| 1929 | 50 | 130 | 116 | 18 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .155 | .222 | .216 | .438 | 11.3 | 13.5 | .212 | -0.7 |
| 1930 | 93 | 350 | 321 | 32 | 82 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 36 | 18 | 27 | 3 | 0 | .255 | .303 | .315 | .618 | 58.9 | 57.9 | .287 | 0.0 |
| 1931 | 145 | 528 | 483 | 48 | 133 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 60 | 35 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .275 | .327 | .327 | .654 | 74.9 | 74.0 | .309 | 1.2 |
| 1932 | 102 | 347 | 317 | 28 | 78 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 41 | 24 | 17 | 0 | 1 | .246 | .301 | .284 | .585 | 56.6 | 55.0 | .278 | 0.0 |
| 1933 | 75 | 258 | 227 | 26 | 46 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 23 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .203 | .282 | .242 | .524 | 40.1 | 38.2 | .258 | -0.5 |
| 1934 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .286 | .429 | -5.1 | 8.5 | .187 | 0.0 |
| 1936 | 19 | 21 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .278 | .350 | .333 | .683 | 90.4 | 87.4 | .326 | 0.2 |
| 1937 | 51 | 132 | 117 | 5 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .205 | .256 | .256 | .512 | 34.1 | 38.1 | .244 | -0.2 |
| 1938 | 16 | 50 | 45 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .267 | .340 | .333 | .673 | 85.6 | 83.9 | .320 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-06-26 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1932-05-18 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1932-07-10 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1931-06-25 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 1938-05-07 | LAD @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925-04-14 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1925-04-15 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1925-04-16 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1925-04-17 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1925-04-18 | PIT @ CIN 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.