Rube Walker
Chicago Cubs 1948–1950; Brooklyn Dodgers 1951; Chicago Cubs 1951; Brooklyn Dodgers 1952–1957; Los Angeles Dodgers 1958
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 79 | 197 | 171 | 17 | 47 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 26 | 24 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .275 | .371 | .409 | .780 | 116.4 | 113.9 | .364 | 1.4 |
| 1949 | 56 | 181 | 172 | 11 | 42 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 9 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .244 | .282 | .331 | .613 | 60.3 | 65.3 | .281 | 0.1 |
| 1950 | 74 | 231 | 213 | 19 | 49 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 18 | 34 | 0 | 0 | .230 | .290 | .357 | .647 | 65.1 | 69.0 | .294 | 0.3 |
| 1951 | 73 | 200 | 181 | 15 | 43 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 27 | 0 | 0 | .238 | .307 | .348 | .655 | 72.1 | 74.3 | .303 | 0.4 |
| 1952 | 46 | 150 | 139 | 9 | 36 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .259 | .304 | .338 | .642 | 74.4 | 78.0 | .297 | 0.4 |
| 1953 | 43 | 103 | 95 | 5 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .242 | .301 | .400 | .701 | 76.7 | 79.8 | .312 | 0.3 |
| 1954 | 50 | 183 | 155 | 12 | 28 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 23 | 24 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .181 | .291 | .323 | .614 | 57.2 | 58.9 | .286 | 0.0 |
| 1955 | 48 | 120 | 103 | 6 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .252 | .342 | .359 | .701 | 80.1 | 85.5 | .309 | 0.4 |
| 1956 | 54 | 156 | 146 | 5 | 31 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 7 | 18 | 0 | 1 | .212 | .245 | .329 | .574 | 39.1 | 49.5 | .249 | -0.3 |
| 1957 | 60 | 187 | 166 | 12 | 30 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 23 | 15 | 33 | 2 | 0 | .181 | .243 | .265 | .508 | 20.1 | 33.3 | .224 | -0.8 |
| 1958 | 25 | 50 | 44 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .114 | .200 | .227 | .427 | -13.9 | 10.2 | .180 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956-06-26 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 9 |
| 1950-06-11 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1954-08-25 | LAD @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 1948-09-03 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 1956-07-22 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-04-20 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-21 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-22 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-23 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-24 | STL @ CHC 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.