Sal Yvars
New York Giants 1947–1953; St. Louis Cardinals 1953–1954
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | -9.5 | 5.7 | .185 | 0.0 |
| 1948 | 15 | 42 | 38 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .211 | .286 | .316 | .602 | 59.1 | 61.8 | .283 | 0.1 |
| 1949 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .111 | .000 | .111 | -72.5 | -67.6 | .083 | -0.1 |
| 1950 | 9 | 15 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .200 | .143 | .343 | -15.8 | -7.8 | .171 | -0.1 |
| 1951 | 25 | 50 | 41 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .317 | .417 | .512 | .929 | 152.9 | 149.1 | .419 | 0.7 |
| 1952 | 66 | 164 | 151 | 15 | 37 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 18 | 10 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .245 | .296 | .344 | .641 | 73.2 | 77.0 | .296 | 0.5 |
| 1953 | 53 | 117 | 104 | 5 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 1 | .260 | .336 | .308 | .644 | 70.9 | 68.9 | .302 | 0.3 |
| 1954 | 38 | 65 | 57 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .246 | .328 | .421 | .749 | 92.9 | 93.0 | .337 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-04-17 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1948-09-28 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1952-09-11 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1951-07-29 | SF @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1952-07-20 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-04-15 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-17 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-18 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-19 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-20 | PHI @ SF 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.