Rufus Baker
New York Black Yankees 1943–1948
Percentile snapshot
1943 season — qualified batters
of 139 qualified 1943 batters (min 74 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 31 | 119 | 101 | 15 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .208 | .322 | .257 | .579 | 68.7 | 55.6 | .298 | 0.0 |
| 1944 | 15 | 54 | 47 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .234 | .321 | .277 | .597 | 69.8 | 61.0 | .297 | 0.1 |
| 1945 | 25 | 94 | 83 | 17 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .205 | .283 | .265 | .548 | 60.5 | 53.9 | .272 | -0.1 |
| 1946 | 31 | 95 | 85 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .165 | .228 | .165 | .393 | 22.7 | 10.4 | .204 | -0.6 |
| 1947 | 29 | 97 | 86 | 7 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .186 | .255 | .244 | .500 | 42.7 | 37.0 | .247 | -0.3 |
| 1948 | 20 | 61 | 56 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .254 | .250 | .504 | 47.2 | 46.1 | .245 | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.00 | .000 | 9.00 | 1.57 | 37.9 | — | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-05-24 | NBY @ PHS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 1947-08-04 | CAG @ NBY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1947-07-26 | NBY @ PHS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1948-07-27 | PHS @ NBY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1945-05-13 | NBY @ HOM Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-05-16 | NBY @ BEG Gameday | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1943-05-16 | NYC @ NBY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-05-16 | NYC @ NBY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-05-25 | NBY @ NE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-05-29 | NBY @ NE 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.