Sam Langford
Boston Red Sox 1926; Cleveland Indians 1927–1928
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -124.8 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1927 | 20 | 77 | 67 | 10 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 1 | .269 | .347 | .388 | .735 | 90.3 | 89.9 | .346 | 0.2 |
| 1928 | 110 | 461 | 427 | 50 | 118 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 50 | 21 | 35 | 3 | 7 | .276 | .312 | .382 | .694 | 76.8 | 80.2 | .318 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928-05-22 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 1927-09-15 | CLE @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1928-04-29 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1928-08-06 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1928-05-11 | CLE @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926-04-13 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1926-04-14 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1926-04-16 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1926-04-17 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1926-04-19 | ATH @ BOS 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.