Sam Calderone
New York Giants 1950; New York Giants 1953; Milwaukee Braves 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 34 | 70 | 67 | 9 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .299 | .319 | .358 | .677 | 74.1 | 78.3 | .306 | 0.3 |
| 1953 | 35 | 46 | 45 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .239 | .267 | .506 | 22.6 | 31.4 | .228 | 0.0 |
| 1954 | 22 | 34 | 29 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .379 | .441 | .448 | .889 | 146.5 | 142.8 | .402 | 0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950-05-21 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1950-08-17 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1953-04-17 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1950-08-17 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1950-08-16 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950-05-05 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1950-05-06 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1950-05-07 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1950-06-04 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1950-06-11 | SF @ STL 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.