Rube Dessau
Boston Doves 1907; Brooklyn Superbas 1910
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .200 | -18.8 | -37.9 | .155 | -1.0 |
| 1910 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .067 | .176 | .067 | .243 | -21.4 | -27.6 | .148 | -1.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9.3 | 10.61 | 2.464 | 0.96 | 5.34 | 210.9 | 23.8 | -1.0 |
| 1910 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 33 | 29 | 24 | 0 | 51.3 | 5.79 | 1.870 | 4.21 | 3.43 | 116.4 | 51.0 | -1.4 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910-08-13 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1907-04-12 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1907-04-15 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1907-04-16 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1907-04-17 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910-04-26 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 6.0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 1910-09-29 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 4.2 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1910-08-01 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 6.2 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| 1910-07-21 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 4.0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1910-08-13 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 4.0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 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.